Overt symbolism of a fucking mindset?

Universal Declaration of Fucking Rights (Part #10)

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Despite every effort to disassociate sexual intercourse from sport, the focus on scoring in many sports suggests that it may be understood as a surrogate for "fucking", as may be further explored speculatively (The-O Ring and The Bull Ring as Spectacular Archetypes: dramatic correlation of theatre, theory, theorem, theology, and theosophy, 2014).

If various ball sports are indeed consciously or unconsciously associated with the processes of "fucking", there is a case for exploration of the symbolism through which this is publicly acknowledged to some degree -- if not assertively.

It is not so long ago that it was a male fashion in high society to wear a codpiece. This was a covering flap or pouch that attached to the front of the crotch of men's trousers in order to accentuates the genital area -- much as is now the function of the bra for women (Stephen Smith, Me and my codpiece, BBC News, 17 March 2014; Bringing Back the Codpiece, The Art of Manliness, April 2014; What goes up must come down: a brief history of the codpiece, 30 April 2015). Equivalents to the codpiece are occasionally to be found in some indigenous cultures and in some subcultures of developed societies, where variants of the jock strap are valued.

Arguably the historical importance of the codpiece can be understood as having morphed into the subsequent role of the necktie as a phallic symbol, as suggested speculatively by various authors (Scott Heydt, The Necktie That Binds Us: why, oh why, does a man wear a tie? 20 June 2014). The significance is succinctly described in satirical terms by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Professor of Humanities at Indiana University:

I have for many years been fascinated by the tie as social and cultural phenomenon. Why is it of all male dress the item that gets imported least to women? Sure, we see women once in a while wearing ties. Sure, there are some foolhardy designers who will propose this item for a feminine market. But, notice... that this vestimentary item has never taken off with the female population. ... Why is this? Clearly, there are deeper cultural reasons for the instability of ties among women.... the tie is a stand-in for the male sexual organ!.... The tie is a surrogate penis... Why else would a tie hang from a man's neck the way his sexual organ hangs from his body? Let us be grateful, gentlemen, for the inventor of the tie. After all, what would you all have done had he (for I firmly believe it was a 'he') decided to starch the tie and prop it from the shirt in a fully erect position?... The male is no different from the female. He also likes to parade in public with a full physical display. And since we do not permit ourselves the luxury of walking nude and flaunting our bodies, what is the male of the species to do? Simple. He dons a surrogate penis. And placing it around the neck is but a subterfuge... [a] public penis. (Extract from: Hisland: Adventures in Ac-Ac-ademe, SUNY Press, 1998, pp. 93-94)

Originating in India, the palad khik (meaning "honourable surrogate penis") is an amulet shaped like a penis, varying from small in size to very large. They are usually worn by males on a cord around their waist under the clothes and off-center from the real penis. It is not unusual for a male to wear many at the same time. In Thailand, women may carry one in their purses to protect them from rape and mugging -- much as people in other coutries may carry a can of pepper spray.

Is it possible that male symbolism associated with "fucking" has somehow "migrated" upward from the codpiece, through the necktie, to the headgear? Are equivalent symbolic dynamics to be detected with regard to the highly polarized discourse concerning integrative globalization and the importance attached to the "balls" of global leadership (Globallooning -- Strategic Inflation of Expectations and Inconsequential Drift: Global, Glo-Bull, Glow-Ball, Glow-Bawl, 2009)? Similar transitions of significance might well be confusingly associated wth the ongoing shift from the double-breasted to the single-breasted suit, as separately explored (Global Governance via a Double-breasted Strange Attractor: cognitive implication in a dynamic sexual metaphor, 2009).

Global leaders inspired by baseball
Ban Ki-Moon	Hillary Clinton	Donald Trump

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