Topic: curled_penises aren't necessarily prehensile BUR

Posted under Tag Alias and Implication Suggestions

The bulk update request #2228 is pending approval.

remove implication curled_penis (18) -> prehensile_penis (2337)

Reason:

prehensile_penis wiki:
Prehensile - literally "to grasp"

For tagging purposes, only use this to describe penises that are actively demonstrating this feature.

A surprising amount of prehensile_penis posts don't actually display any usage of the prehensility of the appendage, such as post #3217289, post #3042334, post #2467937 and post #1466757, which are not observantly prehensile. Instead, users have been tagging these posts based on a generalized appearance of prehensility, such as dicks typically seen on cetaceans being used on other creatures such as dragons and avians, where just having a dick with more than 1 curve ends up being prehensile. While this may be useful for more specific anatomy that is known based on the species (such as sergals' prehensile_clitoral_hood), it does not apply quite so broadly for simply unusual_penises or tapered_penises, and treads on being known information rather than what's seen in the image.

Usually, prehensile_penis can be applied to anything that has a non-regular curve (eg. post #1433154 or post #1819044), or has a regular curve pattern that is derived from a species that is known to have prehensility, so as to exclude simple curled, tapered penises. (edit: now that I see it, the second post just seems like some really jacked perspective, but it might be prehensile anyway.)

(What's going on with post #2293802? It just looks like it's waving in the wind.)

Either we should modify the wiki page to allow this use of the tag, or try and work at removing prehensile_penis and others where it is mistagged according to the wiki page.
Thankfully, curled_penis looks to be the only tag that implicates prehensile anything, so we can start there.

edit 2: or alias curled_penis to prehensile_penis instead, since curled_penis does not even have a wiki describing what it is (I can only assume curled around an object). curved_penis actually works perfectly fine in place of regularly-curled "prehensiles" as shown in 2 of the 4 posts described at the top.

Updated

I think you're misunderstanding the wiki. When it says For tagging purposes, only use this to describe penises that are actively demonstrating this feature. it means that the penis must be depicted curving in a prehensile way. If it's just a long, straight penis, then it's not being depicted as prehensile. However, the tag does need cleanup:

post #2467937 and post #1466757 look mistagged. You can't tell at a glance.
post #2293802 is probably mistagged too. Just looks like wind.

post #3217289 definitely looks prehensile to me.

None of the mistags listed above have the curled_penis tag anyway? unless someone removed it. I didn't check.

kyiiel said:post #3217289 definitely looks prehensile to me.

None of the mistags listed above have the curled_penis tag anyway? unless someone removed it. I didn't check.

Right, the last post is what caused me to investigate this, as I was trying to remove prehensile_penis but left curled_penis intact.

I've edited the OP to mention curved_penis works well in place of it. Curved to me seems to imply just 1 curve instead of more than one.

This implication would make sense in reverse, I think. A penis exhibiting prehension must be curled around something, I imagine.

scaliespe said:
This implication would make sense in reverse, I think. A penis exhibiting prehension must be curled around something, I imagine.

That sounds solid, but the Devil's Advocate in me asks "what if it bends, like a finger?"

I was having a crack at updating the wiki page for prehensile_penis and found curled_penis for the first time, but I'm a bit confused by this post. I thought the main use for curled_penis would have been to describe a penis that has a natural curl to it, like what a feral bird or pig penis would look like. So I agree that the implication is bad, but maybe not for the same reason I suppose?

curved_penis is a more interesting conversation, since that seems to be a possible implication from prehensile_penis...

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