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Plato was the first philosopher to point out that the genitals have a life of their own when he stated that “the gods have given us one disobedient and unruly member”. Schopenhauer was the second to state the same: “the genitals are the real focus of the will” and using the very fine metaphor of the “strong blind man” he depicted the irrationality of our behaviour in our love lives.

The best illustration to these two dicta is Rops’s “Droit au travail”[1]. But I already gave you that.

So today, a new one, called Sakuzōzu[2] (Phallus-Monk, shown above), a print by Katsukawa Shunshō (1726-1792) from the Hyaku bobo gatari series.