New York Filmmaker Releases Docu On Male Genital

Men’s fascination about the male private part is given a new perspective with the Tuesday release in DVD and VOD of the investigative report on the penis by East Village filmmaker Sofian Khan. He spent two years to research and travel in different parts of the world to come up with "The Dikumentary."

As a filmmaker exposed to various subjects, including genitals, Khan said he thought that he had become desensitized to male nudity, but while filming the documentary on penis, some things cause him to flinch. One of them was the penis enlargement surgery in India.

The surgery topped his list of five thing that are fascinating about the male private part that the New York Post featured. Khan said the longest male organs are found among the “holy men” in Varanasi, India, because they stretch their penises.

To do that, they first cut a hole in the glans and insert a stick which they use to forcibly stretch the penis. However, while having long organs, the procedure damaged the vessels and caused them to have erectile dysfunction.

Khan adds that giving up having sex was a form of worship for those men. But it takes time for the procedure to remove the erection ability, and Khan observed a younger male whose genital is still functional and he struggles with it rising to the occasion, even when uncalled for.

Khan’s docu was not limited to humans but included animals. One of his discoveries is that the Argentine lake duck has a corkscrew penis that measures 17 inches. That is twice the length of the duck’s body. If the same proportion applies to human, that would be a male with a 12-foot penis.

In Komaki, Japan, Khan covered the Hounen Fertility Festival. In the festival, unmarried 42-year-old males carry a large wooden penis. Other than the mid-life, males, 36-year-old single females also join the festival, which attracts hundreds of visitors, carrying smaller wooden phalluses. Khan explains that the ages 42 and 36 are inauspicious numbers. Participants in the procession believe they will have special protection.

While the Indian, Japanese and animal examples all show the usual fascination for large penises, which is not the case with Greeks. He explains, “The ancient Greeks thought that a smaller penis was preferable, for aesthetic reasons, but also because they believed a man’s seed had less distance to travel to reach a woman’s ovum.”

However, one story that piqued Khan’s interest has been about Jesus, whom the Bible chronicles as having undergone circumcision. It seems that some monasteries were claiming to have the foreskin of Jesus long after he had died. Others disputed that, citing a Christian belief that when the faithful ascend into heaven, they become whole again from their earthly existence which has reduced their remains to ashes or bones.

“So a story was created that wherever Jesus’ foreskin was when he ascended into heaven, it zipped up into heaven and joined him. So he was whole again.” Khan said he made an animated version of that event.

The world premiere of the docu was at the 39^th annual Atlanta Film Festival on March 22 at The Plaza Theatre. In its review of Dikumentary, Reelga.com commends Khan for an excellent job in keeping the docu’s tone light and never becoming two self-serious. The review gave the docu 3.5 out of 5 dicks.

To contact the writer, email: v.hernandez@ibtimes.com.au