There's a lot of writing about it. Crappy romance. Feminist and humanist essays on the pervasiveness of phallic imagery. Half of Freud. Terrible erotic poems by "grown up" boys who think that talking about how great their (probably imaginary) sex is will get them two minutes in heaven.
I think you can do better.
So here's the challenge*. Write about the penis (could be yours, could be the abstract concept of it, could be a creation myth about it (practical joke by God inspired by how turtle's heads work?), could be a science bio/anatomy poem, could be that time when your dad was teaching you to use the bathroom standing up for the first time and you were convinced his was so huge and wrinkly it must've belonged to a dinosaur**, etc...) in a way it hasn't been written about before.
The most important rules: write about it not as a weapon or a sexual entity. There's a lot of good and decent and cliche writing on it as a form of weaponry, and a lot of... well... writing on it sexually.
Why write what others already did?
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with,
Jason Henry "Has-A-Penis" Simon-Bierenbaum
* And yes, this is me finally putting a writing prompt up. And yes, I wrote on this prompt. this morning actually. That's why after coming up with the prompt a week ago or so I'm finally posting it.
** No, that image wasn't in my original draft, but now it might have to be. This doesn't count as me putting up some of my creative writing. Still holding true to that rule, even though I broke the paragraph limit and the daily limit for a while now.
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