The Five Virtues of the Penis

1. KINDNESS. As a tool for servicing the woman, it keeps giving and giving.

2. RIGHTEOUSNESS. It is not selfish. It performs its duty yet it is empty on the inside with nothing of its own.


3. COURTEOUSNESS. It is polite. It advances or retreats at the right time. It is hard or soft at the right time. And it is shaped neither squarely or pointedly. It will neither hurt nor show a lack of discipline.

4. WISDOM. It knows how to find a way to please a woman, and it will do whatever is in its power to satisfy her.

5. HONESTY. It will keep on laboring until it completes its duty. If it cannot fulfill its duty, it gives up completely. It is completely honest.

from The Tao of Sexology, by Dr. Stephen T. Chang


All chuckling aside (but why not praise the penis? -- it gives millions of people pleasure!), this is an instructive book published in the 1980s by a doctor trained in Chinese medicine. It presents a necessary and fresh (well, not for the Chinese -- the techniques are around 6000 years old!) approach to health by considering energy and its effect on the physical body.

In a myopic medical world dominated by surgery, pills, and insurance providers, the Taoist understanding of medicine provides explanations for phenomena poorly understood within our Western framework, and offers an alternative to 'search and destroy' care in preventative body cultivation.