THE MALE 'PENIS OBSESSION' EXPLAINED

In a very real sense men's lives revolve around their penis much more than they are prepared to admit either to women or to themselves. In fact men are to a significant extent obsessed about that small ungainly and often unruly piece of flesh between their legs. Why?

The view that the penis, quite apart from its obvious physical functions, is at a spiritual level the extension of a man's soul, goes a long way to explain this.

While men and women do make endless jokes about cocks and dicks, just let a woman, or another man for that matter, begin to make nasty comments about a man's penis and in an instant everything changes, because in insulting a man's penis you are insulting him at a very deep level. In fact, you cannot ridicule a man's penis without ridiculing all of him in a most profoundly hurtful way. If told that his penis is ugly he will automatically hear it as saying he is an ugly person inside! This is especially true if the ridicule comes from a woman he loves and trusts.

Conversely, one of the most amazingly powerful and 'soul lifting' experiences for a man is to be told that his penis is beautiful. The way he is wired means that he cannot but hear it as being told that he is a beautiful person on the inside.

The penis: 'nourishing divine wand' or 'weapon of evil, abuse and fear'

The penis too is designed as an extension of soul expressed in flesh. In loving sex it bonds both the man to his beloved and the beloved to the man. It is the channel through which, in loving sex, both the sperm and its spiritual counterpart 'loving soul energy' flows into the woman. On these occasions the penis is experienced by the woman as that which feeds and nourishes her deepest centre. The poet mystic would say, "When the divine wand dances in the divine cave healing magic is conjured and God laughs."

Yet sadly, too many women experience the penis not as that which brings closeness and joy but that which brings fear, pain, domination and even great hate. Too many women have experienced the erect penis not as a divine loving wand, but as an advancing enemy, or a threatening invading spear, intent on wounding their body and soul.

The message of the sacredness of male sexuality is desperately needed in the world of men. Too many men are fixated on soulless exploitative manipulation of women to 'score' or to 'get as much pussy as possible'. Too many, like one male I overheard recently, number 'going cunt hunting' among their trophy-gathering sports!

What the world needs, as never before, are men who are willing to make the effort to learn about and grow in the experience of the sacredness of their own and their beloved's body-soul and to share this among their male world.