Phallus

Smelly forest mushroom

A phallus is a penis, especially when erect or represented symbolically.

The word appears in artistic, anthropological, and psychoanalytic contexts: phallic symbols in ancient art, Freud's phallic stage of development.

Phallic describes anything resembling or representing the penis: The Washington Monument has an unmistakably phallic shape.

The term is clinical rather than vulgar.

symbolic

fertility

Capacity for reproduction

power · lingam · obelisk · maypole · totem · procreation · fecundity · generative · sacred · ritual

anatomical

penis

Male reproductive organ

shaft · foreskin · urethra · reproductive · male · organ · member · manhood · prepuce · tumescence

artistic

sculpture

Shaped three-dimensional art

representation · Pompeii · carving · statue · fresco · pottery · ancient · Greek · Roman · artifact

mycological

stinkhorn

Malodorous spore-bearing fungus

fetid · carrion · cap · stipe · woodland · decomposer · veiled · receptacle · emergence · flies

Opposites
anatomical sex organs

Phallusvagina

Internal female reproductive canal

vulva · yoni · womb · uterus · clitoris

symbolic gender/power

Phallusyoni

Hindu feminine generative symbol

vessel · yin · Great Mother · chalice · feminine principle

physical form (shape symbolism)

Phalluscavity

Empty space within

hollow · vessel · receptacle · orifice · concavity

Phrases
Family

phallic, phalli, phalluses

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