After a bunch of her college students admitted to having contests to see how many penis slang terms they could come up with, linguist Deborah Cameron decided to do a study on the matter. She broke her students up into two groups (male and female) and had them come up with as many penis slang terms as possible. In the paper she published about the experiment, "Naming of Parts: Gender, culture, and terms for the penis among American college students," she discovered that while there are thousands of penis nicknames, they all fall into six distinct categories. Fascinating. Click onward to find out what they were… [Mental Floss]
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