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Time Lord Anatomy
Feb. 14th, 2012 01:41 pmPardon my bluntness, but this drives me round the bend: the Doctor does not have two cocks.
I do not know why this keeps coming up (no pun intended) in fandom. People are always asking about it on message boards, and sometimes I even see it in fic, along with other variations on the theme of the Doctor's alien genitalia. It's not that I'm against alien anatomy for aliens - far from it! But we know that the Doctor is visually indistinguishable from a human man. Even when he hasn't got his pants on. How do we know this, without any full-frontal Time Lord nudity in canon? Well, just because we haven't seen him naked, doesn't mean nobody else has.
There one definitive instance where the Doctor's humanoid appearance is confirmed in TV canon, and a bunch of other supporting evidence. In Spearhead From Space, the staff at the hospital where the Doctor is taken after his regeneration don't realize that he isn't human until after they get his test results back. This is despite having stripped him and put him into a hospital gown. So apparently you can tell the Doctor isn't human by taking his pulse, listening to his heart(s), examining his blood or taking his temperature, but you can't tell just by looking.
Other supporting evidence: the Seventh Doctor is also stripped at put in a hospital gown during the TV movie. (Although given the incompetence of the hospital, I'm not sure they'd have noticed if he had weasels in his trousers.) Rose and/or Mickey take Nine's clothes off the freshly regenerated Tenth Doctor and put him in pajamas. (Which doesn't necessarily mean they took his underwear off or that they'd say anything about their contents to Jackie if they had, but it is suggestive.) Ten's clone is naked when he grows from Ten's severed hand, and Donna would certainly have commented if there was anything odd about his appearance. (But since the clone is half-human, that's not definitive.) Possibly there are other instances of naked Time Lord-ness that I'm forgetting.
Other details of the Doctor's genitalia - their size, general disposition and whether or not he's circumcised - are certainly up for debate if you're that way inclined. But he's only got the one penis.
Remember: two hearts, one cock.
I do not know why this keeps coming up (no pun intended) in fandom. People are always asking about it on message boards, and sometimes I even see it in fic, along with other variations on the theme of the Doctor's alien genitalia. It's not that I'm against alien anatomy for aliens - far from it! But we know that the Doctor is visually indistinguishable from a human man. Even when he hasn't got his pants on. How do we know this, without any full-frontal Time Lord nudity in canon? Well, just because we haven't seen him naked, doesn't mean nobody else has.
There one definitive instance where the Doctor's humanoid appearance is confirmed in TV canon, and a bunch of other supporting evidence. In Spearhead From Space, the staff at the hospital where the Doctor is taken after his regeneration don't realize that he isn't human until after they get his test results back. This is despite having stripped him and put him into a hospital gown. So apparently you can tell the Doctor isn't human by taking his pulse, listening to his heart(s), examining his blood or taking his temperature, but you can't tell just by looking.
Other supporting evidence: the Seventh Doctor is also stripped at put in a hospital gown during the TV movie. (Although given the incompetence of the hospital, I'm not sure they'd have noticed if he had weasels in his trousers.) Rose and/or Mickey take Nine's clothes off the freshly regenerated Tenth Doctor and put him in pajamas. (Which doesn't necessarily mean they took his underwear off or that they'd say anything about their contents to Jackie if they had, but it is suggestive.) Ten's clone is naked when he grows from Ten's severed hand, and Donna would certainly have commented if there was anything odd about his appearance. (But since the clone is half-human, that's not definitive.) Possibly there are other instances of naked Time Lord-ness that I'm forgetting.
Other details of the Doctor's genitalia - their size, general disposition and whether or not he's circumcised - are certainly up for debate if you're that way inclined. But he's only got the one penis.
Remember: two hearts, one cock.