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Long Dong Silver is a British retired porn star known for his large penis. He was born in 1960 in London, England, as Daniel Arthur Mead. His stage name is a reference to the fictional Treasure Island character Long John Silver.

Career

Famed for the apparent size of his penis, reputedly 18 inches (46 cm),^[1] he appeared in several pornographic movies in the UK and US during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Photographer Jay Myrdal said that although Silver "was immensely endowed ... a good nine or ten inches",^[2] the penis featured in his porn shoots was faked. After at first using "complicated multi-exposure techniques" to enhance it in still photography,^[3] Myrdal later persuaded Christopher Tucker, the makeup artist for the 1980 film The Elephant Man, to create a prosthetic. Myrdal described it as "very light, a very delicate foam latex sleeve that fit on over the cock, carefully glued down underneath by the pubes and then made up".^[4]

Silver's debut film was the low-budget Sex Freaks, released in 1979, in which he co-starred with Vicki Scott. In 1982, he appeared with the actress Seka in Beauty and the Beast, shot in the US.^[5] Silver reached a new audience in the wake of allegations of sexual harassment during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination in the US Senate in 1991,^[6]^[7]^[8] as Anita Hill alleged that Thomas had mentioned to her that he was a viewer of Silver's films.^[9]^[10]

References

^ Trebay, Guy (October 1999). "There's Just One Thing You Need to Know About Jonah Falcon. 13.5 Inches (And Now You Do.)". Out. Vol. 8, no. 4. Here Publishing. pp. 83–85. Retrieved 17 July 2022 – via Google Books. For purposes of comparison it might help to consider that this is larger than the penises of 99.99 percent of all living males, probably including Milton Berle; larger than the mythical penis of gangster John Dillinger (so legendary that FBI agents were reputed to have amputated it and kept it preserved in a jar); larger even than the penis of almost every porn star, with the possible exception of Long Dong Silver, whose rarely erect 18-inch penis figured so prominently in the congressional hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas.
^ Hansen, Dian (2008). "The Myth...Long Dong Silver". The Big Penis Book. Cologne: Taschen. p. 358. ISBN 978-3-8365-0213-9.
^ Hansen, Dian (2008). "The Myth...Long Dong Silver". The Big Penis Book. Cologne: Taschen. p. 357. ISBN 978-3-8365-0213-9.
^ Hansen, Dian (2008). "The Myth...Long Dong Silver". The Big Penis Book. Cologne: Taschen. p. 359. ISBN 978-3-8365-0213-9.
^ O, Kelly (22 April 2009). "Porn! How to Live with a Huge Penis". The Stranger. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
^ Berke, Richard (12 October 1991). "Drama in Senate". The New York Times. p. 9.
^ Press, Bill (5 July 2001). "The return of Long Dong Silver". Inside Politics. CNN. Retrieved 17 July 2022. Senate confirmation hearings had left Thomas a new, but disgraced, member of the court. In her testimony, Hill calmly told Senators how her then-boss Thomas exploited and harassed female workers. He told dirty jokes. He graphically described pornographic videos he had rented, including the now-famous 'Long Dong Silver.' Perhaps inspired by 'Long Dong', he bragged about the size of his own penis. He begged for dates. He even accused Hill of leaving pubic hairs on his can of Coca-Cola. Nice guy.
^ Friedman, David M. (2001). A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 135–139. ISBN 0-684-85320-5. Six decades later, another black American faced a committee of white men agitated about his penis. For hours those white men listened, many of them visibly appalled, to complaints from a woman about the black man's lewd behavior toward her, all of it, she said, unwelcome and unsolicited. They heard how he bragged about the size of his organ, comparing it to a supernaturally endowed porn star named Long Dong Silver.
^ Mann, Judy (9 November 1994). "A strange Justice for All". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 July 2022. The reporters have confirmed the rumor sweeping newsrooms at the time of the hearings that Thomas had a longtime interest in pornography. The rumor became important when Hill testified that Thomas had called her into his office at the EEOC and began discussing a pornography star named 'Long Dong Silver.' Sen. Howell T. Heflin (D-Ala.) asked Thomas if he'd ever heard that name, and Thomas replied no. 'It is entirely possible that Thomas was telling the truth,' the authors write. But they also quote Barry Maddox, the proprietor of Graffiti, a video store, as saying that Thomas was a regular customer of 'adult movies' after the store began renting pornographic videos in 1982. The store stocked 'freak of nature' movies, including the series that made Long Dong Silver a well-known performer.
^ Handy, Bruce (2 February 2009). "Clinton's Crisis: Oh, Behave!". Time. Retrieved 17 July 2022. Is it just coincidence that the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings in the fall of 1991 roughly coincided with Bill Clinton's emergence on the national scene? In the years since Long Dong Silver became a household name--not to mention Paula Jones and Dick Morris--one thing has become clear: the word nadir no longer has any meaning in public life.

External links

Long Dong Silver at IMDb
Long Dong Silver at the Internet Adult Film Database
Long Dong Silver at the Adult Film Database

[1] Trebay, Guy (October 1999). "There's Just One Thing You Need to Know About Jonah Falcon. 13.5 Inches (And Now You Do.)". Out. Vol. 8, no. 4. Here Publishing. pp. 83–85. Retrieved 17 July 2022 – via Google Books. For purposes of comparison it might help to consider that this is larger than the penises of 99.99 percent of all living males, probably including Milton Berle; larger than the mythical penis of gangster John Dillinger (so legendary that FBI agents were reputed to have amputated it and kept it preserved in a jar); larger even than the penis of almost every porn star, with the possible exception of Long Dong Silver, whose rarely erect 18-inch penis figured so prominently in the congressional hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas.

[2] Hansen, Dian (2008). "The Myth...Long Dong Silver". The Big Penis Book. Cologne: Taschen. p. 358. ISBN 978-3-8365-0213-9.

[3] Hansen, Dian (2008). "The Myth...Long Dong Silver". The Big Penis Book. Cologne: Taschen. p. 357. ISBN 978-3-8365-0213-9.

[4] Hansen, Dian (2008). "The Myth...Long Dong Silver". The Big Penis Book. Cologne: Taschen. p. 359. ISBN 978-3-8365-0213-9.

[5] O, Kelly (22 April 2009). "Porn! How to Live with a Huge Penis". The Stranger. Retrieved 17 July 2022.

[6] Berke, Richard (12 October 1991). "Drama in Senate". The New York Times. p. 9.

[7] Press, Bill (5 July 2001). "The return of Long Dong Silver". Inside Politics. CNN. Retrieved 17 July 2022. Senate confirmation hearings had left Thomas a new, but disgraced, member of the court. In her testimony, Hill calmly told Senators how her then-boss Thomas exploited and harassed female workers. He told dirty jokes. He graphically described pornographic videos he had rented, including the now-famous 'Long Dong Silver.' Perhaps inspired by 'Long Dong', he bragged about the size of his own penis. He begged for dates. He even accused Hill of leaving pubic hairs on his can of Coca-Cola. Nice guy.

[8] Friedman, David M. (2001). A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 135–139. ISBN 0-684-85320-5. Six decades later, another black American faced a committee of white men agitated about his penis. For hours those white men listened, many of them visibly appalled, to complaints from a woman about the black man's lewd behavior toward her, all of it, she said, unwelcome and unsolicited. They heard how he bragged about the size of his organ, comparing it to a supernaturally endowed porn star named Long Dong Silver.

[9] Mann, Judy (9 November 1994). "A strange Justice for All". The Washington Post. Retrieved 17 July 2022. The reporters have confirmed the rumor sweeping newsrooms at the time of the hearings that Thomas had a longtime interest in pornography. The rumor became important when Hill testified that Thomas had called her into his office at the EEOC and began discussing a pornography star named 'Long Dong Silver.' Sen. Howell T. Heflin (D-Ala.) asked Thomas if he'd ever heard that name, and Thomas replied no. 'It is entirely possible that Thomas was telling the truth,' the authors write. But they also quote Barry Maddox, the proprietor of Graffiti, a video store, as saying that Thomas was a regular customer of 'adult movies' after the store began renting pornographic videos in 1982. The store stocked 'freak of nature' movies, including the series that made Long Dong Silver a well-known performer.

[10] Handy, Bruce (2 February 2009). "Clinton's Crisis: Oh, Behave!". Time. Retrieved 17 July 2022. Is it just coincidence that the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings in the fall of 1991 roughly coincided with Bill Clinton's emergence on the national scene? In the years since Long Dong Silver became a household name--not to mention Paula Jones and Dick Morris--one thing has become clear: the word nadir no longer has any meaning in public life.

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+'''Long Dong Silver''' is a British retired [[porn star]] known for his large [[Human penis|penis]]. He was born in 1960 in London, England, as '''Daniel Arthur Mead'''. His [[stage name]] is a reference to the fictional ''[[Treasure Island]]'' character [[Long John Silver]].
-'''Long Dong Silver''' is the [[pseudonym]] of a retired [[porn star]]. He appeared in several [[pornographic movies]] in the UK and US during the late 1970s and early 1980s, famed for the apparent size of his penis (18&nbsp;inches / 45 centimeters). However, it was later revealed that his penis size was a fabrication that Daniel Mead had help in making from his photographer Jay Myrdal. Having been known as being one of the makeup artists for the film ''[[The Elephant Man (film)|The Elephant Man]]'', Myrtle created the prosthetic by utilizing a "flexible foam latex sleeve" that was "placed over Mead’s penis [and] glued down to his pubes" in order for him to pose during photo shoots.<ref>{{cite news |title=Members Only: Unzipping the mysteries of The Big Penis Book |author=Byron Beck |url=http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-9610-members_only.html |newspaper=[[Willamette Week]] |date=October 1, 2008 |accessdate=September 25, 2011}}</ref>
+== Career ==
-His debut film was the low-budget ''Sex Freaks'' released in 1979, in which he co-starred with [[Vicki Scott]]. In 1982 he appeared with the legendary [[Seka]] in ''Beauty and the Beast'', shot in America.<ref>{{cite news |title=Porn! How to Live with a Huge Penis |author=Kelly O |url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/porn/Content?oid=1477138&show=comments&sort=desc&display= |newspaper=[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]] |date=April 22, 2009 |accessdate=September 25, 2011}}</ref> His name is a reference to [[Long John Silver]].
+Famed for the apparent size of his penis, reputedly {{convert|18|in|cm}},<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Trebay|first=Guy|date=October 1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gWIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84|title=There's Just One Thing You Need to Know About Jonah Falcon. 13.5 Inches (And Now You Do.)|magazine=[[Out (magazine)|Out]]|volume=8|issue=4|publisher=[[Here Publishing]]|pages=83–85|access-date=17 July 2022|via=Google Books|quote=For purposes of comparison it might help to consider that this is larger than the penises of 99.99 percent of all living males, probably including Milton Berle; larger than the mythical penis of gangster John Dillinger (so legendary that FBI agents were reputed to have amputated it and kept it preserved in a jar); larger even than the penis of almost every porn star, with the possible exception of Long Dong Silver, whose rarely erect 18-inch penis figured so prominently in the congressional hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas.}}</ref> he appeared in several pornographic movies in the UK and US during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Photographer Jay Myrdal said that although Silver "was immensely endowed ... a good nine or ten inches",<ref>{{cite book|last=Hansen|first=Dian|year=2008|chapter=The Myth...Long Dong Silver|title=The Big Penis Book|location=Cologne|publisher=[[Taschen]]|page=358|isbn=978-3-8365-0213-9}}</ref> the penis featured in his porn shoots was faked. After at first using "complicated multi-exposure techniques" to enhance it in still photography,<ref>{{cite book|last=Hansen|first=Dian|year=2008|chapter=The Myth...Long Dong Silver|title=The Big Penis Book|location=Cologne|publisher=Taschen|page=357|isbn=978-3-8365-0213-9}}</ref> Myrdal later persuaded [[Christopher Tucker]], the makeup artist for the 1980 film ''[[The Elephant Man (film)|The Elephant Man]]'', to create a prosthetic. Myrdal described it as "very light, a very delicate foam latex sleeve that fit on over the cock, carefully glued down underneath by the pubes and then made up".<ref>{{cite book|last=Hansen|first=Dian|year=2008|chapter=The Myth...Long Dong Silver|title=The Big Penis Book|location=Cologne|publisher=Taschen|page=359|isbn=978-3-8365-0213-9}}</ref>
+Silver's debut film was the low-budget ''Sex Freaks'', released in 1979, in which he co-starred with Vicki Scott. In 1982, he appeared with the actress [[Seka (actress)|Seka]] in ''Beauty and the Beast'', shot in the US.<ref>{{cite news|last=O|first=Kelly|date=22 April 2009|url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/porn/Content?oid=1477138&show=comments&sort=desc&display=|title=Porn! How to Live with a Huge Penis|newspaper=[[The Stranger (newspaper)|The Stranger]]|access-date=17 July 2022}}</ref> Silver reached a new audience in the wake of allegations of [[sexual harassment]] during the [[Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination]] in the US Senate in 1991,<ref>{{cite news|last=Berke|first=Richard|date=12 October 1991|title=Drama in Senate|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|page=9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Press|first=Bill|date=5 July 2001|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/07/05/billpress.column/|title=The return of Long Dong Silver|website=[[Inside Politics]]|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=17 July 2022|quote=Senate confirmation hearings had left Thomas a new, but disgraced, member of the court. In her testimony, Hill calmly told Senators how her then-boss Thomas exploited and harassed female workers. He told dirty jokes. He graphically described pornographic videos he had rented, including the now-famous 'Long Dong Silver.' Perhaps inspired by 'Long Dong', he bragged about the size of his own penis. He begged for dates. He even accused Hill of leaving pubic hairs on his can of Coca-Cola. Nice guy.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Friedman|first=David M.|year=2001|title=[[A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis]]|location=New York|publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]]|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=dYYx-sHniI8C&q=intitle:A+intitle:mind+intitle:of+intitle:its+intitle:own&pg=PA135 135]–139|isbn=0-684-85320-5<!--978-0-6848-5320-8-->|quote=Six decades later, another black American faced a committee of white men agitated about his penis. For hours those white men listened, many of them visibly appalled, to complaints from a woman about the black man's lewd behavior toward her, all of it, she said, unwelcome and unsolicited. They heard how he bragged about the size of his organ, comparing it to a supernaturally endowed porn star named Long Dong Silver.}}</ref> as [[Anita Hill]] alleged that Thomas had mentioned to her that he was a viewer of Silver's films.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mann|first=Judy|date=9 November 1994|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/11/09/a-strange-justice-for-all/09855976-79bf-4614-95fe-65ba796d00cc/|title=A strange Justice for All|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=17 July 2022|quote=The reporters have confirmed the rumor sweeping newsrooms at the time of the hearings that Thomas had a longtime interest in pornography. The rumor became important when Hill testified that Thomas had called her into his office at the EEOC and began discussing a pornography star named 'Long Dong Silver.' Sen. Howell T. Heflin (D-Ala.) asked Thomas if he'd ever heard that name, and Thomas replied no. 'It is entirely possible that Thomas was telling the truth,' the authors write. But they also quote Barry Maddox, the proprietor of Graffiti, a video store, as saying that Thomas was a regular customer of 'adult movies' after the store began renting pornographic videos in 1982. The store stocked 'freak of nature' movies, including the series that made Long Dong Silver a well-known performer.}}</ref><!--<ref>{{cite news|last=Mann|first=Judy|date=9 November 1994|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-918400.html|url-access=subscription|url-status=dead|title=A Strange Justice for All|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021233050/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-918400.html|archive-date=21 October 2012|access-date=17 July 2022|via=HighBeam Research|quote=The store stocked 'freak of nature' movies, including the series that made Long Dong Silver a well-known performer.}}</ref>--><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Handy|first=Bruce|date=2 February 2009|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,987752,00.html|title=Clinton's Crisis: Oh, Behave!|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|access-date=17 July 2022|quote=Is it just coincidence that the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings in the fall of 1991 roughly coincided with Bill Clinton's emergence on the national scene? In the years since Long Dong Silver became a household name--not to mention Paula Jones and Dick Morris--one thing has become clear: the word nadir no longer has any meaning in public life.}}</ref>
-He received new fame in the wake of allegations of [[sexual harassment]] during the [[Clarence Thomas]] [[Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination|confirmation hearings]] in the U.S. Senate in 1991, as [[Anita Hill]] alleged that Thomas had mentioned to her that he was a viewer of Long Dong Silver's films.<ref>Berke, Richard “Drama in Senate” <u>New York Times</u> Oct 12, 1991: 9</ref><ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/07/05/billpress.column/] Press, Bill "The return of Long Dong Silver." InsidePolitics, [[CNN]], July 5, 2001. Called him "the now-famous "Long Dong Silver." Retrieved April 24, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-918400.html] Mann, Judy, "A strange justice for all." [[The Washington Post]], November 9, 1994. Called him "a well known performer." Retrieved April 24, 2009(subscription)</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,987752,00.html] Handy, Bruce, "Oh, behave!" [[Time (magazine)]], February 2, 1998. Says "..Long Dong Silver became a household name.." Retrieved April 24, 2009</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=dYYx-sHniI8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:A+intitle:mind+intitle:of+intitle:its+intitle:own&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA135,M1] Friedman, David, "A mind of its own,"Simon and Schuster, 2001.ISBN 0-684-85320-5, 9780684853208. Calls him (p 135)"a supernaturally endowed porn star" and discusses [[Anita Hill]]'s testimony in the Thomas confirmation hearings related to Thomas' alleged comments about the actor. Retrieved April 24, 2009</ref>
+== See also ==
-His head is also pictured in an episode of the show ''[[Futurama]]'' entitled "[[A Head in the Polls]]".{{Citation needed|date=March 2012}}
+{{Portal|Biography}}
+* [[Milton Berle]]
-==Filmography==
+* [[John Dillinger]]
-* ''Sex Freaks'' (1979)
+* [[Jonah Falcon]]
-* ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1982) - Captain Long Dong Silver
-* ''Electric Blue 1'' (1982) - Himself
-* ''Electric Blue 3'' (1982) - Himself
-* ''Long Dong Silver'' (1985)
-* ''Blue Vanities 53'' (1988)
-* ''Blue Vanities 243'' (1995)
-* ''Porno Bizarro'' (1995)
-* ''Big Boys of Porn'' (2000)
-* ''Huge Black Cocks'' (2008)
-* ''Monster Black Cocks'' (2008)
-==See also==
 * [[List of British pornographic actors]]
-==References==
+== References ==
-{{Reflist}}
+{{reflist}}
-==External links==
+== External links ==
-* [http://web.archive.org/web/20051221041656/http://www.sasserlone.de/bild.0067-long-dong-silver-2.html Nude image of Long Dong Silver] archived at the [[Internet Archive]]
 * {{IMDb name|0798740|Long Dong Silver}}
 * {{iafd name|id=LDSilver|gender=male|name=Long Dong Silver}}
 * {{afdb name|id=6235|gender=male|name=Long Dong Silver}}
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