Jean Cocteau is probably most famous for Beauty and the Beast (1946). Worth seeing, if you haven’t. An autobiographical account of his gay life is included in a collection of pre-Stonewall gay writings. I was charmed by Cocteau’s description of the penis, which I here reproduce for your delectation:
“[T]hat fabulous little undersea plant, forlorn, inert, shipwrecked on the frothy fleece, which then stirs, unwrinkles, develops, rouses itself and hurls its sap afar when once it is restored to its element of love.”
source:
“The White Paper” by Jean Cocteau
Calamus: male homosexuality in twentieth century literature, an international anthology
edited by David Galloway and Christian Sabisch
1982. Quill/William Morrow & Co., New York NY
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