Definition of "phallicism" []

• The worship of the penis or phallus, especially connected with fertility. (noun)

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• "It is not difficult to understand, therefore, why primitive man paid divine honours to the organs of sex in man and woman, or to such things as he considered symbolical of them -- that is to say, to understand the extensiveness of those religions which are grouped under the term "phallicism"."
• "A shape of itself is a mathematical abstraction until we lumber it with our own meaning, and to infer any such meaning as phallicism, puns on condominium notwithstanding, it seems to me you would have to show intention."
• "Even the British Museum does not include works on phallicism in its catalogue, and special permission has to be obtained to consult them."