A Sci-fi story where the protagonist joins a band of space pirates by pretending to cut off his penis

Question

This story’s only enduring scene has a Lonestar-type sketchy Han Solo knockoff protagonist forced while infiltrating a group of space pirates to perform a gang initiation style act of hazing to show his allegiance.

For whatever reason escapes me now, he boasts that he’ll get rid of his… ahem, “pistol” — and not the one in his holster, but below his belt — and manages to successfully execute the charade by faking up a prosthetic and then whac— ummm, ahem, “cutting” it off.

I’m not sure if it was an anthology short story or part of single novel-length story. I’m pretty sure I read it maybe in early 1990s but I don’t recall if it was new. Humor was this level of Ice Pirates sophomoric locker-room type of humor.

Answer 1

It's a bit of a long shot, but this might be from the second book in the Eagleheart series by C.T. Westcott, Broadsides and Brass

It was a 3-book series published around the right time, the character is about right and the scene you describe is pretty much word-for-word what happens in the book. The humour sounds about right too!

The main deviation is that the series is set on Earth in a semi-post-apocalyptic near-ish future.