@GreyWolfLeaderTW

11 months ago

The reason wang is so close to fang is because the entomological root of both words refers to, ironically enough, to the act of grasping or catching combined with tooth (because, obviously, fangs are specialized teeth that hook into flesh to hold it in the mouth). Ironically enough, we still use this original "seize and hold" meaning in idioms like "sink my fangs into it". These words typically split down differing lines of use based in their similarity to the shape of a catch-tooth. Wang in English started as referring to tooth and came to refer later to jaw/cheek ironically enough, although it retained its secondary humorous slang meaning due to its retainment of rhyming structure with fang. A fang also bears some resemblance to the phallus of some species of animals. There is also direct association between catching and holding and embracing of a fang, and an obvious parallel with the sexual embrace. Now as for schlong, it's literally Yiddish/Germanic for "snake". Schlong is used as slang with its obvious secondary meaning because the bodies of snakes more closely resemble the phallus of humans. One can obviously see why snakes and their fangs are so closely associated with reproduction and fertility in human cultures and religions. Similarly, because so many snakes are dangerous to human beings, (poisonous fangs and all that), snakes were equated symbolically with sexual sin/capital sins long before the Hebrew Creation Story in the Torah/Bible was written down.

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