Green’s Dictionary of Slang

staff n.

the penis.

1654		Mercurius Fumigosus 29 13–20 Dec. 232: Lady Lucina can reach the Mystery of this Prodigy without a Jacobs staff of the length of a May-pole.
1660		Wandring Whore II 8: I fear the foul disease is so deeply rooted in her rotten husband, (as appears by his staff since he was at Enfield,) that he will shortly be put in the Bill of Mortality.
1670		J. Ray Proverbs 17: The married man must turn his staff into a stake.
1686		Dorset ‘A Faithful Catalogue of our most Eminent Ninnies’ in Works of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset (1720) 30: Well has his Staff a double Use supply’d / At once upheld his Body and his Pride.
1748		Spy on Mother Midnight I 24: [I]f he is to pass a green Brook or so, the Length of your Staff may do, and then but indifferently.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 194: venus with a rueful face / Was looking serious at the place, / Where diomed had run his staff in.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 265: [She] Stopp’d his long staff in mid career, / And made it spit its venom there.
1837–8		‘They’re All Shooting’ in Cuckold’s Nest 37: She says she likes policemen, ’cause they’ve got a good long staff.
1846		Swell’s Night Guide 90: Dutch Frow Christine, who said, – He cannot stand it, and I cannot stand it [...] he shall churn all night, but the butter will not come, and he bends de churn-staff.
1880		‘Julien’s Concert’ in Pearl 13 July 11: My bunch of rosy locks, his staff so well displayed is, / He knows full well a good long piece is sure to please the ladies.
1898		Forbidden Fruit n.p.: Presently her hand wandered down to where my stiff standing pintle was throbbing against her belly, her hand closed upon my staff.
1903		Kate Percival Life & Amours (1967) I 60: Each time she struck me it seemed to impale me on his fiery staff.
1904		Lustful Memoirs of a Young and Passionated Girl 15: Abner unbuttoned his pants and took out his staff.
2011		D.R. Pollock Devil All the Time 206: All he had to do was snap his fingers and her mouth would start watering for what he liked to refer to as his ‘staff’.

In compounds

staff breaker (n.) (also staff climber)

a woman, seen in a sexual context.

1890–1904

Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues VI 340/2: staff-breaker (or climber) = a woman.

In phrases

staff of life (n.) [punning on SE staff of life, bread or any other staple]

the penis.

1836		‘The Bride!’ in Comic Songster and Gentleman’s Private Cabinet 28: She takes the staff of life in hand.
1884		Randiana 125: ‘How is the dear jewel, you surely don’t need the balsam to start with,’ she said, taking out my staff of life.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 44: Bourdon, m. The penis; ‘the staff of life’.
1904		Lustful Memoirs of a Young and Passionated Girl 20: As I had hold of his staff of life he asked how I’d like to have that in my belly.

staff of love (n.)

the penis.

1653		Urquhart (trans.) Rabelais I xi: One of them would call it her fiddle-diddle, her staff of love... her Cyprian sceptre.
1748–49		Cleland Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1985) 170: My gallant [...] shew’d me the staff of love so intensely set up.
1857		Venus’ Miscellany (NY) 23 May n.p.: I feel the noble staff of love sink deep into her moistened temple.
1903		Kate Percival Life & Amours I 25: Out leaped his staff of love, firm and with its ruby head uncovered.