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May. 1st, 2015 10:06 pm"She points to the words of the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, who, writing in the 1580s, called the codpiece “an empty and useless model of a member that we cannot even decently mention by name, which however we show off and parade in public”, while the Elizabethan play Wily Beguiled sees a character boast that he has “a sweet face, a fine beard, comely corpse, and a carousing codpiece”.
“It wasn’t even around for a century – only for about 75 years. It came into fashion as something really modest, a triangular piece of fabric. In the first couple of decades of the 16th century it started to be stuffed. Then it got to epic proportions, some more phallic, some more testicular or ovoid in shape,” she said.
“It definitely did the job of drawing the eye to the genital regions. But it was gone by 1600. It just started to taper off and shrink in size by the last quarter of the century.”"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/30/wolf-hall-codpieces-too-small-says-literature-researcher?CMP=fb_gu
“It wasn’t even around for a century – only for about 75 years. It came into fashion as something really modest, a triangular piece of fabric. In the first couple of decades of the 16th century it started to be stuffed. Then it got to epic proportions, some more phallic, some more testicular or ovoid in shape,” she said.
“It definitely did the job of drawing the eye to the genital regions. But it was gone by 1600. It just started to taper off and shrink in size by the last quarter of the century.”"
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/30/wolf-hall-codpieces-too-small-says-literature-researcher?CMP=fb_gu
