“But nobody can look at that diagram and think about anything other than an impressively sized phallus.”

“His phallus, or lingam, enshrined in most Hindu temples, is worshipped and revered by the world's 300 million followers of the Hindu religion.”

“Even Shiva, a god profoundly connected with sexuality and the phallus, is desexualized in a most bizarre way.”

“In such a world, suggests Maddin, avarice, phallocentrism, corporatism and narcissism are dominating the world and deforming it utterly.”

“Julia Kristeva writes about opposing phallocentrism with images derived from women's corporeal experiences.”

“Symptomatic of the narrative's phallocentrism is the fact that only the male protagonist comes to possess a larger understanding of the family's oppression.”

“The way in which phallicism has been suppressed during the present era raises the general question of religious liberty in Japan.”

“The ark itself was a feminine symbol, and phallicism would explain why Moses made an ark and put in it a rod and two stones.”

“I am not one of those who find in phallicism the key to all the mysteries of mythology.”

“The phalli point to one of the Oriental forms of the worship of the forces of nature.”

“The bawdiness of the plays was emphasized by the actors' costumes, which featured jerkins with padded stomachs and large phalli.”

“Some of these phalli were recreated as fast as they were worn away by zealous devotees.”

“The Greeks were really big about waving phalluses around, but you don't see that much anymore.”

“We don't wonder at her dubious expression, menaced as she is by a descending battalion of silver phalluses we recognize as fuel rods.”