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Baculum




In humans, the rigidity of the erection is provided entirely through blood pressure in the Corpus Cavernosum .

Examples of animals with a penile bone include Rat s, Dog s and Walrus es.


BIBLICAL NOTE


In the Bible's Book Of Genesis , Adam's Rib is removed to create Eve . Biblical Hebrew does not have a word for Penis . Some scholars (Gilbert and Zevit 2001) have suggested this story is an explanatory myth to explain the absence of a baculum in the male human, rather than a missing rib (in light of the fact that men and women have the same number of ribs).


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1. Gilbert, Scott F. and Ziony Zevit. 2001. Congenital human baculum deficiency: The generative bone of Genesis 2:21-23. American Journal of Medical Genetics 101(3): 284-285.