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In ‘The Joy of Sex,’ a male is a man, a female is a girl, and a vagina is, to ‘males generally, slightly scary: it looks like a castrating wound and bleeds regularly, it swallows the penis and regurgitates it limp, it can probably bite and so on.’ Men can get past such fears, of what Freudians called the vagina dentata, but Comfort cautions that ‘they are the origins of most male hangups including homosexuality.’ The penis, by contrast, ‘has more symbolic importance than any other human organ.’ Lest there be any confusion: ‘Vibrators are no substitute for a penis.’ Comfort even enlists his fictional female narrator to argue the point for him. Under the heading ‘Women (by her for him),’ Comfort writes of male genitalia, ‘It’s less the size than the personality, unpredictable movements, and moods which make up the turn-on (which is why rubber dummies are so sickening).’ At times, ‘The Joy of Sex’ has the feel of a penis propaganda pamphlet.