What do you call that part of the thing?

[electric1]

What do you call that bulge that runs along the underside of an erection?

If the correct answer is something that would cause 99% of readers to have to stop and check a dictionary, then maybe a better question is, What are some handy ways to describe it? (If there's a name for that bulge that most people would not have to look up, I'll feel stupid for asking, but lay it on me anyway.)

 

[Neonurotic]

I've read it in stories as a vein, but that's not true to what it really is. It has a scientific name, but it's a sponge-like tissue that fills with blood during an erection.

 

[3113]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Erection_Homme.jpg/220px-Erection_Homme.jpg

Right there in Wiki:

Penile erection occurs when two tubular structures that run the length of the penis, the corpora cavernosa, become engorged with venous blood. This may result from any of various physiological stimuli, also known as sexual stimulation and sexual arousal. The corpus spongiosum is a single tubular structure located just below the corpora cavernosa, which contains the urethra, through which urine and semen pass during urination and ejaculation, respectively. This may also become slightly engorged with blood, but less so than the corpora cavernosa.

And here are instructional pictures for purely educational purposes :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Erection_Development.jpg/200px-Erection_Development.jpg

But I really wouldn't use the medical term unless the POV person in your story is very knowledgable and clinical about such things.

 

[stickygirl]

I've read it in stories as a vein, but that's not true to what it really is. It has a scientific name, but it's a sponge-like tissue that fills with blood during an erection.

Its the bit that pushes down on your tongue

 

[Safe_Bet]

I belive the ACTUAL technical term is "The Part That Goes *Squick* When The Official Lorena Bobbet Ginsu Knife Severs It"!

 

[Stella_Omega]

I've called it "The thick bulge that ran down the underside of his cock" and not gotten any complaints.

We don't have good vocabulary for the specifics of genitalia, due to our society's habit of avoiding looking at that part of our bodies.

 

[Handley_Page]

It may have all manner of medical names (the urethra), but I understand it is the 'tube' that carried sperm at times, urine at others.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/viagra1.htm

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I've called it "The thick bulge that ran down the underside of his cock" and not gotten any complaints.

We don't have good vocabulary for the specifics of genitalia, due to our society's habit of avoiding looking at that part of our bodies.

Well to be quite frank (about franks), I am nowhere near flexible enough to get a good look at that part of my body, and my attempts to study those parts of the female body have been less than fruitful.

 

[glynndah]

Well to be quite frank (about franks), I am nowhere near flexible enough to get a good look at that part of my body, and my attempts to study those parts of the female body have been less than fruitful.

I'll bet I speak for most of the women here when I say I'm not quite that flexible either, Thee, but I'm pretty certain I don't have a cock down there or the aforementioned bulge.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I knew I should have used the word corresponding...

 

[TE999]

I suppose you could call it a tool hoist or a pecker jack, but I think those names have been copyrighted by advertisers on porn sites.

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

It's just the squishy thing that adds texture during various forms of foreplay.

 

[jomar]

It's called the love vein and it is nine inches long and seven + inches in circumference

 

[jomar]

dp

 

[Boxlicker101]

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheeGoatPig
Well to be quite frank (about franks), I am nowhere near flexible enough to get a good look at that part of my body, and my attempts to study those parts of the female body have been less than fruitful.

I'll bet I speak for most of the women here when I say I'm not quite that flexible either, Thee, but I'm pretty certain I don't have a cock down there or the aforementioned bulge.

But you do have a urethra and you do have a body part that corresponds somewhat to the penis, and it does become engorged during sexual arousal.

 

[AirRichard101]

Sponge bob?

 

[MatthewVett]

In this situation, I try to think of what I'd call that area on something else.

Underbelly, bottom, keel...unfortunately there's lot a lot of things where we describe the bottom of a long thing, rather than a tall thing... If you compare the penis to something else first, though, it'll make more sense to use a metaphorical term for it. That being said, I approve of keel. Nautical terminology adds a bit of class...

 

[TE999]

In this situation, I try to think of what I'd call that area on something else.

Underbelly, bottom, keel...unfortunately there's lot a lot of things where we describe the bottom of a long thing, rather than a tall thing... If you compare the penis to something else first, though, it'll make more sense to use a metaphorical term for it. That being said, I approve of keel. Nautical terminology adds a bit of class...

Does that mean if you patronize a bath house in San Francisco you'll get keelhauled?

 

[sr71plt]

I've only ever referred to it as a vein. I don't thing this is a time in a scene where it would need to be mentioned to be getting clinical.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I refer to this part of the male anatomy fairly often. After a man has been sucked off, I usually say something like: (She/he) placed her thumb on the base of his cock, right in front of his scrotum and her fingers on the opposite side. Slowly, she drew her hand toward her mouth, catching all the semen that oozed out on her tongue.

 

[Carnevil9]

I call mine "Elvis."

 

[AirRichard101]

Well, shiver me timbers and blow me down, I'm ready to set sail with you, SG. Unfortunately, my first mate would have me thrown in the brig.

Speaking of Popeye the sailor man, mine looks like him with a squinty eye, especially when it's up-periscope time.

\nautical humor

 

[AtlantaGirl487]

I Don't Know, But......

Every time I really jam my fingers there, my husband goes wild!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mtrainer]

" Swab my Cannon, you bilge vermin ... and be quick about it!!"

" Aye, aye, Captn...."

"Thar She Blows! !!!!"

Just sitting here in the head...amusing myself.

 

[AirRichard101]

I certainly enjoyed the vein this thread has taken.

StickyGirl, I like the way you play ... with words.