well-endowed

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:24 PM +0100 5/26/05, neil wrote:
>'well--endowed' doesn't make it in Blake (1964), Trimble (1966), Gordon
>(1967), or Gillette (1969).
>
>However, V.J. Samuels, 'An ABC of Sexual Words and Phrases' (Greenleaf
>Classic, San Diego, 1969, 96) does have:
>
>'endowed -- possessing a large penis, as "a well-endowed man."
>
>Another expression was also current in the 1960s:
>
>'She had realized that her nephew was well equipped from that pressing
>hardness during their previous kiss. But she had not expected anything like
>the nine-inch column that arched its purple head in quivering readiness.'
>-John C. Douglas, 'Stepmother's Lover', Beeline 0315, USA, 1968
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>
Bruce Rodgers's Gay Talk (1972, but appearing earlier as The Queens'
Vernacular) provides a number of synonyms, from "doctor" [attested,
he claims, in the 1940s] to "Taurus", under _well hung_ (p. 211),
which is glossed as 'having more than seven inches of cock'.  That
(as it were) cut-off point seems somewhat arbitrary, and not really
sufficiently relativized given the syncategorematic nature of "well":
a bull elephant with 8" would be considered meagerly hung/endowed,
while a tom cat with 5"...

L