Cock Shock as a term was first introduced by the psychologist, Sigmund Fraud in 1905. After years of critical analysis of the female subject (including the usual ‘testing’), he developed the theory that most, if not all, women at some point in their life suffer from this neurosis. ‘Cock Shock’ occurs when a woman feels overwhelmed by the length and girth that is placed in front of her. It can also occur when a woman is not expecting to see a penis (see Fraud’s notes on “spam-rod surprise”). In this instance, the feeling of surprise becomes linked with a feeling of being overwhelmed by what she sees, the result being that the subject blanks out all memories of the experience. Virginia Woolf described her own experience of ‘Cock shock’: “it was as if I had shell shock. I just blanked out th