personification:
1. The attribution of a name and personal character to inanimate objects or abstract notions. Familiarity and humor dispel taboo and one of the surest ways to turn a taboo object into a familiar one is to give it a proper name (or charactronym). Many forenames have been applied to the penis , notably: Cecil, Charlie , Dick, John-Thomas , John-Willie , Percy , Peter, Roger, Willy . Male porn stars are notorious for picking phallic stage names: Rex Borsky / Busbone / Neve R. Come / Alex Dane / Dave De Long / John Decker / Sid Deuce / Dick Dickinson (dick and sons) / Rod Fontane / Billy Glide / Jack Goff / Pierre Har Donn / Rowdy Gallahad / Sweets Gurkin / Max Hardcore / Dave Hardman / Ron Hightower / Mike Horner / Rip Hymen / Johny Jam / Cal Jammer / Nick Knight / Derrick Lane / Jim Legman / Joe Logon / Attila Long / Longhorne / Dan D . Lyon / Biff Malibu / Andy Mast / Rodney Moore / Jim Nasium / Dick Nasty / Stumpy Penguino / Gerry Pike / Vladimir Roksoff / Virag Ronay / Dick Small / Randy Spears / Tony Speed / Spike / John Stagliano / Jake Steed / Colt Steele / Dick Steel (was pumping iron) / Kyle Stone / Slime Stone / John T. Bone / Rocky Toro / Frank Towers / Mile Uver / Teenie Weiner . Rodney Dangerfield was Dick Hertz in Saturday Night Live . See penis for synonyms.2. The representation of an inanimate object or abstract notion in the form of a person. Personifying one's genitals and breasts is very common: Penis names include: Captain-Hard , Cecil, Charlie , Dick, John (Thomas), Old-Adam , Percy , Peter, Roger, Willy, Mister-Fuzzy , Mister-Happy , Mister-Poky , Mister-Softy , Mister-Wiggly , Mr.-Big , Mr.-Bluevein , Mr.-Friendly , Mr.-Priapus , Mr.-Torpedo , Mr.-Wong . For the vagina we have: Fanny, Lady-Jane , Jane, Lili , Mary-Jane , Miss Brown, Miss-Laycock . For the breasts we have: The Pointer-Sisters,-The Boys, The Girls, The Twins, Thelma-and-Louise , Laverne-and-Shirley , Mickey-and-Minnie , Wilma-and-Betty , Lucy-and-Ethel .
QUOTES:
(1) Alan Richter. The Language of Sexuality (1987): ' Giving a name to the genitals may simply be an attempt to personify them but can also impute to them a life of their own, especially if their owner wishes to avoid responsibility for their actions .'
(2) Montana Morehead (Cathy Moriarty), a secret transsexual , to TV producer David Barnes (Robert Downey, Jr.) about Celeste Talbot in Soapdish (1991): ' Get rid of her and Mister-Fuzzy is yours .'
(3) Lola Caine (Sean Young) to Ned Ravine (Armand Assante) in Fatal Instincts (1993): ' Doesn't Mister-Poky want to go exploring? '
(4) Rick Jarman (Mel Gibson) to Muffy (Goldie Hawn) in Bird on a Wire (1990): ' Mister Wiggly's been on bread and water for five long years .'
(5) In My Fellow Americans (1997) ex-US President Douglas (James Garner) used to call-it Blinkey but changes it to The First Penis . Mr. Waldman in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1997) calls it Mister Wally.
(6) Officer Davis (Phil Hartman) in National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993): ' Why did the guy give a name to his penis? He didn't want a stranger making most of his decisions .'
(7) Stephen Tobolowsky also has a special and revealing name for his in Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1996): ' Honey, Mister Monkey wants to play .'
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