
WHEN THE PENIS BONES WERE HANDED OUT, SOME SPECIES, INCLUDING HUMANS, GOT STIFFED. The trend went Hollywood in 2004, when Sarah Jessica Parker and Vanessa Williams were both seen wearing raccoon baculum earrings. Southerners wear them on necklaces, keep them in their pockets, and even include them in bridal bouquets. The little bones are also known as coon dogs, Texas toothpicks, and Abrahams. Raccoon penis bones are considered by some in the South to be lucky charms. You can even buy them on Amazon, although based on the reviews (“It is about half the size of a normal adult coon dick toothpick”), you may not want to. Taxidermists sell raccoon and skunk bacula on the Internet for just a few cents apiece. BUT YOU CAN PROBABLY AFFORD ONE.Įven if your penis bone budget is a little more modest, you don’t have to go empty handed. "It's definitely something everyone should see once in their life." 4. "I'm glad it's going to a museum and not a private collection," the auctioneer told the Associated Press. The final selling price was actually a disappointment to the auction house, which thought it could sell the bone for $16,000. At four-and-a-half-feet long, the bone is believed to be the largest mammal penis fossil in the world.

In 2007, the fossilized penis bone of a walrus was auctioned off for $8000 to the company that runs the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums. THEY CAN FETCH A PRETTY PRICE AT AUCTION. A bush baby that can mate for hours stands a much better chance of becoming a father than one that can't. The bacula of promiscuous animals are usually bigger than those of animals who are monogamous, so it may have something to do with sperm competition. Still others say it could help animals mate for longer periods of time. Others think the bone may stimulate the female reproductive tract, encouraging her ovaries to release eggs. Scientists have theorized that it might make it easier for a male animal to maneuver inside his mate. The baculum helps keep its owner's penis stiff, but the exact purpose is still unclear. They're not proportional to an animal's size, either a gorilla's baculum is just a few millimeters long, but a dog's can reach three inches.


Some are spiked or barbed some are curved. Most male mammals have penis bones, but no two species' are alike. Read on to find out what it is, what it's for, and why you might want to wear one around your neck.

A southern custom says that, if a man wants to win a woman's heart, he should boil a raccoon penis bone, tie it to a string, and give it to his sweetheart as a necklace.The baculum, also known as the os penis, or penis bone, is something of a mystery. Many small raccoon penis bones are straight, but the raccoon's penis bone is curved and hooks into the pelvis of the female during intercourse. The trend went Hollywood in 2004, when Sarah Jessica Parker and Vanessa Williams were both seen wearing raccoon baculum earrings. Raccoon penis bones are also referred to as Mountain Man Toothpicks. Wholesale small raccoon peckers, penis bones, raccoon baculum, ranging in size from 2-3/4 inches to 3-1/2 inches, measured with a wood ruler.
