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Book recommendation: Kokigami: Performance Enhancing Adornments for the Adventurous Man by Burton Silver and Busch Heather: Some amusing paper puppets for putting on the penis.
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  1. In steps 1-5 you will make the "frog-bird" base, a hybrid of the frog and bird bases. Start by folding the Preliminary Base.
  2. Squash open one flap, then another on the opposite side of the Preliminary Base.
  3. Petal-fold the squashed flap, front and behind.
  4. This is the neat step: pretend you're making a Bird Base. Petal fold, using the squashed region as guides to the side lines.
  5. The completed Frog-Bird Base. Look it over: it is a base with 7 points (the Bird Base has 5 and the Frog Base 9). Stretch two of the longer limbs.
  6. Fold back down, hiding one of the shallower points. Turn over.
  7. Bring up the "head" point with a valley fold, and fold down the two "arms" along the same line, behind. Reverse fold the 'dancer's feet'. For a 'respectable' version, mountain-fold (hide) the 'belly point; otherwise turn this into an erection by rabbit-folding the point forward-size is to taste. Turn over.
  8. Mountain fold through all layers, along the lines you can feel within the model. The two flaps will slightly overlap in back--never you m ind. Next, valley fold the two arms out, as far as they naturally can go. Turn over.
  9. Trim the wide body on each side edge with a reverse fold to behind, running essentially vertically from the armpit down. (Season to your taste in body shapes--thin/fat, narrow/wide waist, etc.) Mountain fold the leg, from around where the knee should be, down to the top of the join with the dancer's foot; then let the foot turn back toward the front. For the head, open the flaps forward along the lines you will feel, creati ng a rounded, hooded blank face. Valley fold the lower arm forward, and tuck a hand behind the back; do as you wish with the other arm.
  10. Roll the top point of the head back.
  11. The completed Standing Man.

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