Wicked Willie


Wicked Willie is a humorous British cartoon character, personified as a talking penis, created by Gray Jolliffe with Peter Mayle. He first appeared in the book, Man's Best Friend, published in 1984. He has subsequently appeared in Wicked Willie - The Movie, and the board game, The Wicked Willie Game. Jolliffe says that the idea for Wicked Willie came to him one day, while he was in the bath. A more detailed history of Wicked Willie is found in the book, Wicked Willie Reloaded.
Journalist Peter Silverton describes "..the comic books about a man and his Wicked Willie. It was a dialogue -- mostly about women, of course -- between the two. Its irony is that the 'dreadful little trouser mole' is by far the sharper of the two brains".

Personification

Author Peter Mayle describes Wicked Willie as "a rampant penis". In her book Communicating gender, Suzanne Romaine notes:
Scottish feminist linguist, Deborah Cameron notes that:
The character also contributed to the permissiveness and acceptance of sex on the high street. British journalist Libby Purves writes:

Reception

In March 1987, the book, Wicked Willie's Guide to Women, was in the number 7 position in the Paperback Non-Fiction section, of the Month's Bestsellers. Almost a year later, Wicked Willie's Low-down on Men, had reached number 6 in the same chart.

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