So I asked some dudes

If your penis could wear anything, what would it wear?

“purple”

“a scuba diving outfit”

“a wig”

“a winter jacket”

“a leather vest”

“thick rimmed glasses and a bandana”

If your penis could speak what would it say?

“Hi, nice to meet you”

“baby baby”

“tally ho”

“Hello, nice to see you”

“floozle”

“hello”

            I conducted these interviews with some of my friends in the same way that it was done in Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues. I did this to try and gauge the differences between the views women and men have on their genitalia.

I’ve only given a few of my total interview answers. The general gist of what I ended up with was a trend of confidence that I didn’t see in The Vagina Monologues.

            In the book, Eve Ensler talks about man elevating the penis above the vagina, “Hate to see a woman having pleasure, particularly sexual pleasure…they wouldn’t be able to stand it. Seeing all those energized, not taking shit, hot, happy vaginas” (Ensler 72).

            We are constantly shown examples of men controlling women sexually, in her book, Ensler talks about the issue of genital mutilation,

“Genital mutilation has been inflicted on 80 to 100 million girls and young women. In countries where it is practiced, mostly African, about 2 million youngsters a year can expect the knife—or the razor or a glass shard—to cut their clitoris or remove It altogether, to have part or all of the labia…sewn together with catgut or thorns” (Ensler 67).

            This issue, although terrible has been slowly losing popularity. Thanks to books like this and other associations, people are being educated on what’s wrong with genital mutilation and are being given other ways to culturally represent coming of age. “In some places, Africans seem to have been quietly putting an end to the tradition of genital cutting” says Ensler, who is all to aware of the unjust nature of those acts (Ensler 91).

            The clitoris contains twice as many nerve fibers as the penis, and I am reminded short narrative we read earlier in the year, If Men Could Menstruate.  If men had a body part as sensitive as a clitoris, it would be championed, praised, talked about, and written about infinitely more then the women’s clitoris is in our day and age.