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Jason H | 08:58 Wed 26th Jun 2002 | Phrases & Sayings
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Why is the phrase "John Thomas" slang for the Male Member?
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It's becuase it was the expression used by Mellors the gardener in D.H Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterly's Lover'. As far as I'm aware, it didn't exist before this, but I may well be in error on this point. 'LCL' popularised the term.
12:38 Wed 26th Jun 2002
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Mellors was Lady Chatterly's Lover. The alternative title was 'John Thomas and Lady Jane'.
21:19 Wed 26th Jun 2002
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The vulgar dictionary of 1811 has Thomas as the male member. Patridge has John Henry or John Thomas as the male member, from the middle of the 19th century, although Hendrickson disputes this.

And perusal of the Oxford Companion to English Literature, etc., shows that firefly's jolly jape was another of his highly inventive answers.

17:23 Sun 30th Jun 2002

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