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If a man has a penis but does not insert it anywhere, it is still a penis. If a woman wears an artificial penis to disguise herself as a man, as did several European women during the eighteenth-century in order to become soldiers, but does not insert it anywhere, is it a dildo? And is it a dildo in the same way as when a woman nowadays straps on a dildo to have sex with another woman or man? Do we need to distinguish between phallus, prosthesis, dildo, artifical penis, etc?

See the sex toy article for more on this... -- Karada 17:47, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I think we can expunge any specific reference to "feminists" being offended by representations of the phallus. It's enough to say that when fashioning a dildo, slavishly reproducing the minutiae of the male genitalia is often either unnecessary, undesirable or irrelevant. User:Scarlett McQueen 01:22, 13 March 2006

Inventor of the silicon dildo. Thought he deserved a mention. Source: Buzz by Hallie Lieberman. ThePinkShoes (talk) 15:20, 5 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]