There's actually kind of a funny history behind the Eggplant emoji. Emoji are Japanese in origin and around the time they were taking off there was this Survivor like gameshow where one guy was confined to his apartment and he had to try and survive past the basics by applying for and winning sweepstakes items from various promotions from newspapers and magazines.

The participant's shortened form name was Nasu - which means "eggplant" so since the guy started the challenge with literally nothing including clothes they put a little Eggplant over his junk in post. That became a Japanese cultural meme that translated over once emoji became more widely adopted.

You probably won't see actual dick emoji in the actual set because emoji are an all ages access thing and exist on an international level. It's actually kind of funny how different cultures use the same finite set. Like in China how the angel emoji is construed as "I'm going to end you". One could see the things as becoming essentially a hieroglyphic set where they gain their own full individual linguistic meanings.

Just last week I meant to make eggplant parm but got mixed up and next thing you know I was deep throating that sucker. Dinner was ruined.

Feel free to submit a request to the Unicode Consortium in April when they open up again but given vulva/vagina was previously declined I doubt they'll accept penis https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-requests.html

For nr 2, in America, where most of this stuff comes from, it's super taboo with sex and anatomy. Violence, theft and other things are ok tho... 🍆

You could use the Phallus hieroglyph: 𓂸

Here's an oddity ... people use 🍆 "eggplant" for penis, and 🍑 "peach" for butt, but there doesn't seem to be a general consensus on which emoji to use for vulva. Some options include:

• Flowers such as 🌷 "tulip" or 🌹 "rose"
• 🐚 "spiral shell"; compare South American Spanish concha
• 🦪 "oyster"; which has a visible pearl (i.e. clitoris) on many systems
• Food items whose names are used as slang for vulva, such as 🍯 "honey pot" or 🌮 "taco"
• 👛 "purse"; compare the origin of the word "pussy" in English
• Any of the various cat emoji, also for "pussy"

(Really there are plenty of other options for penis as well, such as 🌽 "ear of corn" or 🕹 "joystick", but folks seem to have settled on the eggplant.)

wait, have I been using the wrong one? 👃

We can't even have a gun or a middle finger emoji. I doubt we're getting a penis one anytime soon.

over time this might affect our collective consciousness in regards to the purpose & function of the eggplant

I think that that's already happening. Personally, when I see an eggplant, I automatically think of penises, and it makes me a bit uncomfortable.

As a bonus, here are some ancient Egyptian dick hieroglyphs: 𓂸 𓂺 𓂹

Would the black version of the penis emoji be longer than the others? Would it be an erect or a flaccid penis? Why not both? Or better even, a full range of male excitement. The applications are endless!

(I'm joking of course but it does demonstrate the silly questions you would have to answer if you were to actually implement this)

Emojis are used very widely, including places meant specifically for young kids. These places would already censor words, but requiring emoji censorship as well is adding complexity to a problem that is already difficult to handle. Companies not on the ball with the release of sexual organ emojis would let kids see that until it's added to their filter list. Kids wouldn't know what it means, but it can lead to them googling for context or encourage a conversation with the predator using it if they ask about it.

Honestly, I just don't think it's worth the headache. Eggplants and peaches and cats are already pretty easy to understand in context, and if you need more than the emojis we already have, we do have our old fashioned words.

I vote for having penis, balls, butt, labia and titty emojis.

🤮 well at least we got this for giving shrek head

It doesn't help that social media censorship is leading to a more constrained language, if anything. Not only profanities are either censored or shadowbanned by some platform algorithms, there's also general use words for sensitive topics such as suicide, abortion and the like.

What I don't get is that a dick the size or shape of an eggplant would just not work, for anything.

I always thought incorporating a drawing into legit character encoding is not a good idea.

Can we please stop these idiotic calls to de-profanify all things and pretend everything’s for every situation.

Are you aware we invented clothing super super super early on, and that humans tend to wear loincloths when there’s no other need for clothing?

Stop trying to greenfield rewrite culture. It’s like trying to tear down a bridge you’re standing on.