NCBI ROFL: What did God do with Adam’s penis bone?
[Via Discoblog]
Congenital human baculum deficiency: the generative bone of Genesis 2:21-23.
“Another genetic condition, extending to 100% of human males, is the congenital lack of a baculum. Whereas most mammals (including common species such as dogs and mice) and most other primates (excepting spider monkeys) have a penile bone, human males lack this bone and must rely on fluid hydraulics to maintain erections. This is not an insignificant bone. The baculum of a large dog can be 10 cm long x 1.3 cm wide x 1 cm thick… Human bacula have been reported, usually in association with other congenital diseases or penile abnormalities.
One of the creation stories in Genesis may be an explanatory myth wherein the Bible attempts to find a cause for why human males lack this particular bone. Our opinion is that Adam did not lose a rib in the creation of Eve. Any ancient Israelite (or for that matter, any American child) would be expected to know that there is an equal (and even) number of ribs in both men and women. Moreover, ribs lack any intrinsic generative capacity. We think it is far more probable that it was …
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Interesting take on how the Hebrew term for penile bone or baculum became a rib. And what they thought the raphé was a consequence of.
Makes more sense than a rib.
First we lost our penile spines. Then we lost our baculums. No wonder men’s sex organs are such floppy things and why Viagra is sometimes needed.
We have to do everything with plumbing and dexterity rather than with bones and spines.
