Paul Abramson, the UCLA psychology professor who helped spearhead our sex issue (on newsstands tomorrow), has a YouTube channel called Hellflowers in L.A., in which he examines various fascinating characters in our fair city.

After the jump, check out one of his videos, on a woman who creates paintings of penises. Yes, penises. (We did say he helped with the sex issue.)

Our favorite quote, from the artist: “These penises have memories attached to them.”

Here's the video, entitled “The Penis Series”:

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