As noted above, Philip Jose Farmer s[eculated that Kong was more human-sized in that department. I think he’s done it in more than one place.
Considering that, throughout the movie Kong is referred to as “he”, and the presumption of “his” being in klove with Ann Darrow, I dion’t think there’s been any doubt about Kong’s sex. Certainly others using Kong as a literary character since have always assumed he was male.
Although, you gotta admit, the idea of a female Kong and an interspecies lesbian affair does add a certain bizarre twist to the proceedings.
It might not be the first one of that title, in fact. I thought one came out about the same time as the 1976 remake. One of these features a female giant ape (appropriate, considering the thread), and someone noted it should be Queen Kong.
Actually, King Kong was one of several movies about relationships between white women and apes of varying size back in the late 20s and the early 30s. I’m thinking it was a (subconciously) racist way of coming to terms with blacks and whites having sex. Wierd little thing going on there.
Aw, I was going to post the ‘hung like a gorilla’ factoid. A question though: When you say that their testicals are the smallest of all the great apes, does that include humans?
Yes indeed; in fact, humans are way up there (so to speak) in terms of relative groinal hugeness. Among the Hominidae, only the chimpanzee boasts a heftier satchel. Also, the human penis is by far the largest such structure among primates. What the other primates think of this situation is not known; however, I suspect they are grateful that humans provide them with such a large target to aim for.
