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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The “rib” is just a polite way of saying cut down the middle.

Nah, it's not a "rib" that's the sanitized version.

Humans are one of the only mammals without a literal dick bone. The myth was good created Eve (the second wife) out of the dick bone. And that's why humans don't have a dick bone.

Not even being funny:

Penile bones are common in the skeletal structure of male mammals, particularly carnivores and primates where they function anatomically as a stiffening rod. Lacking this bone, human males must rely on fluid hydraulics to maintain an erection. The ancient writer of our story asked himself a question: Why do human males lack this bone? His answer was that it had been taken from Adam to make woman.

https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/was-eve-made-from-adams-rib-or-his-baculum/

The "zipper line" according to the myth is how God removes the dick bone:

We find the answer in a little-noticed physical condition in men. A slight seam of light flesh, referred to as a perineal raphé, exists on the underside of the human penis. When a male fetus is about ten weeks old, the edges of the urogenital groove on the underside of the penis begin to fold together over the urogenital sinus (cavity). This process leaves a scar where the two sides come together. Most men are unaware of it, but it is in fact visible after birth and throughout life as a straight line of scar tissue on the underside of the penis.

It appears that the Bible here ascribes the origin of this scar/seam to the “closing of the flesh” after the os baculum was removed from Adam’s penis to form the woman. It responds to the question: Where does that particular scar-like line come from?

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Now I'm just curious why we lack a penile bone.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

We're not sure.

Theres a couple theories that put it on monogamy and society, basically that once we became "civilized" it was no longer needed to prolong reproduction because a woman wouldn't leave and immediately have sex with someone else before the first guy's swimmers finished the race.

It's probably a result of one of the many many bottlenecks our species went thru, one pretty far back because no modern human has a dick bone. But still after hominids split from primates.

Whoever made it thru that bottleneck had no dick bones or ones so little it didn't matter when they went away, so now none of us have it.

I'd really be interested in if other hominds had it, would help narrow down the date. But good luck getting a study on neanderthal dick bones funded these days....

Edit:

Maybe bipedalism?

Humans are one of the few animals that go thru life "dick first", if we retained a dick bone, then if we walked into something, our dicks would hit it first. So that would be evolutionary pressure strong enough to make it go away. A broken dick bone probably wouldn't be good for reproduction even after it healed.

We could probably look at how much time primates spend on two legs, and find a correlation to how small their dick bone is on average

But I probably need to stop thinking about dicks now.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The first theory makes absolutely no sense because humans are not biologically monogamous. Monogamy is relatively new behavior (and socialized , no inherent) in our species and not even universal across civilizations. Bipedalism might be a more feasible explanation.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no longer needed to prolong reproduction

I'm keeping this one for later

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago

We used it to create women


I feel like you're not really paying attention.

(/s...)

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Death by SnuSnu

[–] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

os baculum was removed from Adam’s penis to form the woman.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not joking when I ask, but is this where the term “boner” comes from?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't really know so this is basically an ass-pull, but "boner" as referring to an embarrassing public mistake seems to predate its use as referring to an erection, at least based on its relative frequency in innocent contexts. I assume this came to refer to an embarrassing public erection. You don't really tend to hear it used in a flattering way. When it happens in a romance novel, it's an "erection" or "engorged manhood", when it happens right before a high schooler gets called up to the board, it's a "boner".

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At my age, and without a certain medication of a specific color, I call mine chubs. Ain’t language grand? 🤣

[–] Muaddib@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

So that's what a lady boner is!