Clifford Howard's work on "Sex Worship" is a broad overview of phallic worship and related topics which serves as a fairly proper introduction to all of the more specific subtopics of this formerly taboo school of mythological study- the cultus arborum, serpent veneration, the lingam and yoni of Hinduism, and so forth.Carefully avoiding the explicit and obscene, the book is flatly academic, and well written, dwelling often on Greece, Rome, and then-modern...