A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can tell us about how we use our own.
Emily Willingham, PhD, is a journalist and science writer who earned a PhD in biology and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in urology, both after taking a bachelor's degree in English literature. She is co-author of The Informed Parent- A Guide to Your Child's First 4 Years, and her writing has appeared at the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Aeon, Undark, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other outlets. She is a regular contributor to Scientific American.
"This is a hilarious tour through a menagerie of dicks, and a
ferocious guide to not being a dick yourself.”—Ed Yong, New York
Times Bestselling Author of I Contain Multitudes
“PHALLACY is both smart and smart-ass, serious and startling—and it
will make you reconsider your ideas about sexual balance of power
in ways both satisfying and important.”—Deborah Blum, Pulitzer
Prize Winning Author of The New York Times Bestselling Author
of The Poison Squad
“PHALLACY is Dr. Emily Willingham's detailed, insightful, and
funny cross-species biography of the penis. It's an entertaining
romp that is as much about evolution as it is about
emotion and egos. It shines a light on how we became so
penis-centric and the resulting repercussions for science, society,
and sex.”—Jen Gunter, MD, New York Times Bestselling Author of The
Vagina Bible
“Exuberantly witty and scathingly subversive, Willingham’s PHALLACY
takes a long-overdue look at the myriad ways that putting the
penis, and maleness in general, at center stage have skewed many
fields of scientific inquiry, from the study of evolution to
Freud’s fulminations on psychoanalysis. An important and timely
book.”—Steve Silberman, New York Times Bestselling Author of
NeuroTribes
“As a gynecologist, I never expected a book about the penis to be
so interesting or enjoyable! Phallacy is Dr. Emily Willingham’s
detailed, insightful, and funny cross-species biography of the
penis. It’s an entertaining romp that is as much about evolution as
it is about emotion and egos. It shines a light on how we became so
penis-centric and the resulting repercussions for science, society,
and sex. You’ll never look at a penis the same way
again . . . and I mean that in the best of ways!”
—Dr. Jen Gunter, New York Times bestselling author of The Vagina
Bible
“Emily Willingham’s wonderful book is both a hilarious tour of many
bizarre natural wonders and a ferocious corrective for many toxic
cultural myths. I lost track of how often I laughed, and how much I
learned.”—Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain
Multitudes
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