Gettin' my Bone On
I think my first awareness of baculums came at that dinner during commencement weekend. It must have been in, what, '95? '96? We went to the Providence Bookstore Cafe, back when it actually included a bookstore. Betsy Scharf, a name from my fraternity's past, was there, and she was very proud of her raccoon baculum earrings. Up to that point, I hadn't realized that most mammals (our own species excepted) had a penis bone.
Now, sometime in the intervening decade, I believe I had a chance to examine a walrus baculum, or oosik, and it's a formadible implement, with with a combatant of reasonable strength could clearly brain his foeman. Somehow, however, bizarrely, I can't remember what the circumstances of my scrutiny were.
The image came to mind, though, when The Salty One described her recent workplace, and impelled me to do the web searches that discovered Boneclones.com. If you follow none of the other links in this piece, do follow this one, dear reader. It's a hell of a site, with a lot of stuff on it. Replica skeletons of neanderthals, >saber-toothed tigers, platypuses, and komodo dragons, for prices reaching up into the low five digits. as well as the formidable reproduction walrus baculum. Well, maybe I can afford a t-shirt.
And finally, in honor of the day, let me close with the Valentine's Day Achewood episode from 2002, which touches on related themes.

ode to the oosik by redbeard:
One of my colleagues has this pinned above her desk: