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Male Organ Specific Enhancement Surgery Article # 2
Thinking about having Male Organ Specific Enhancement surgery?
Maybe you'd better think twice. Technically referred
to as penile augmentation (or even more technically
as "augmentation phalloplasty"), new
surgical techniques promise to make possible what
has been the wish of many a Western male - to
increase the size of his Male Organ. However, recent
research has demonstrated that the new techniques
may be extremely hazardous to your physical and
sexual health, and to your overall well-being.
Until relatively
recently, the only technique available to enhance
the size of the Male Organ actually did not enhance its
size at all - only its apparent length in the
flaccid (non-erect) state. This technique consisted
of severing the suspensory ligament - a ligament
that keeps the Male Organ somewhat lifted up and away
from the scrotum. When this ligament is severed, the
flaccid Male Organ drops lower, giving a longer
appearance. However, the actual size of the Male Organ
remains the same, and this technique does not affect
the size of the Male Organ when erect.
More recent techniques
include the injection or grafting on to the Male Organ of
fat taken from elsewhere on the body (usually the
buttocks or belly) , which increases the diameter of
the Male Organ (thickness) as well as its flaccid length.
Again, however, the size of the erect Male Organ remains
unchanged. Over time, the fat is re-absorbed into
the post-surgical organ, and replaced with knotty
scar tissue. The final outcome is often uneaven and
unattractive. Following surgery, the erect Male Organ
feels "like an erect Male Organ with fat around
it."
More serious problems
may result from this surgery, as described in a
recent report in The Journal of Urology and in
greater detail in a new Ph.D. dissertation study
from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human
Sexuality (IASUS). In the latter study, 58 men who
had penile augmentation surgery reported a number of
complaints:
30% found that surgery
had decreased penile sensitivity.
25% had pain during
masturbation or sexual intercourse.
25% reported a
decrease in sexual activity following surgery
(sometimes as a result of severe sexual
dysfunction).
45% experienced
infection after surgery (these wounds sometimes
required a new operation to repair the damage caused
by the initial operation).
48% complained of
scarring, hair growth, lumpiness, strange curves or
other aesthetically offensive results.
50% would not have had
the surgery if they had known what the outcome would
be.
57% would not
recommend the surgery.
These are extremely
troubling results. Clearly, techniques of penile
enlargement do not exist at an acceptable level of
safety or patient satisfaction. Despite all the
controversy over the risks of breast enlargement
surgery, such procedures are positively benign when
compared with the male equivalent. But let's
backtrack. Why did the men in the reported studies -
and the hundreds or thousands of others electing to
undergo penile augmentation yearly - desire the
surgery in the first place?
Ignorance is one
starting point. When asked what their
"ideal" Male Organ length would be, the men in
the IASUS study answered an average of 7.9 inches.
Did these men believe that 7.9" is a typical
length of a human Male Organ? A recent article in The
Journal of Urology had some interesting answers to
this question, and came up with some guidelines for
surgeons as to who should and who should not be
considered a candidate for penile augmentation.
First, according to the Journal of Urology report,
the actual average length of a "normal,
healthy" man's Male Organ in the flaccid state is
approximately 8.8 centimeters, or 3.5 inches. If the
flaccid Male Organ is stretched out by pulling it, the
average length is about 12.4 centimeters, or about 5
inches. The average erect Male Organ length is close to
the average "stretched out" length, or
about 12.9 centimeters (5.2 inches). Moreover, the
size of the flaccid Male Organ is unrelated to the size
of the erect Male Organ - although the size of the
"stretched out" Male Organ is related to the
size of the erection.
The authors of the
Journal of Urology, after considering the hazards of
the procedure, conclude that only men whose flaccid
Male Organ is less than 4 centimeters (1.6 inches) and
erect Male Organ less than 7.5 centimeters (3 inches)
should even be considered for penile augmentation
surgery!
Of course, these
statistics are probably not likely to dissuade some
people from endangering their sexual, physical, and
mental health by inappropriately undergoing Male Organ Specific Enhancement surgery. Many men seem to refuse to
accept the well-documented fact that size of a man's
Male Organ is simply not the critical factor in female
sexual satisfaction. So if you decide to lay down on
the surgeon's table, we wish you the best of luck.
But don't say we didn't warn you!
Read about the
Non-Surgical Alternative!
References
Alter, G. J. (1995). Augmentation phalloplasty.
Urologic Clinics of North America, 22, 887-902.
Klein, R. D. (September, 1996). Penile Augmentation
Surgery. Ph.D. thesis, Institute for the Advanced
Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco. Summary by
Cheryl Chase via Sexnet. Wessells, H., Lue, T.F.,
& McAninch, J. W. (1996). Complications of
penile lengthening and augmentation seen at one
referral center. The Journal of Urology, 155,
1617-1620. Wessells, H., Lue, T.F., & McAninch,
J. W. (1996). Penile length in the flaccid and erect
states: Guidelines for penile augmentation. The
Journal of Urology, 156, 995-997.
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