And why the hell are they even associated in the first place?

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    5 months ago

    There are plenty of other names and I’d be surprised if the ones you used are the oldest or even the most popular.

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      5 months ago

      Well yeah, obviously. Lots of other terms for it as well.

      But seriously, who, why, and when did they decide to nickname the penis as a dick? And who decided that Dick is an appropriate nickname for Richard?

      And who named the organ the penis in the first place?

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      Penis is derived from the Latin for “tail”. As penis came to mean schlong over time, Latin switched to cauda. Dick only became a euphemism for the fuckstick in the 1980s. Why? I have no idea. But other proper names are/have been used including “Peter”, “Johnson”, and “John Thomas” that I can think of off the top of my head.