A man has undergone emergency surgery in a bid to fix his badly broken penis.
The unnamed 37-year-old Indonesian showed up at his local A&E complaining of ‘acute pain’ and a swiftly lost erection after the accident, which occurred while he’d been having sex.
The man said he heard a cracking sound while he and his sexual partner were enjoying the Reverse Cowgirl position.
He was also experiencing ‘bloody meatal discharge’ [aka discharge of the penis], and was having difficulty urinating. The man presented with what professionals describe as the ‘Eggplant Deformity’.
An article about the case, which was published in volume 47 of Urology Case Reports, reads: ‘The diagnosis of penile fracture is quite easy because the symptoms are typical.
‘Penile fractures generally cause a cracking sound, rapid detumescence [loss of erection], acute pain, penile swelling, and ecchymosis [a kind of bruiseing] may give rise to the “Eggplant Deformity”.’
Yikes!
While there are no bones in the penis, a penile fracture can occur when erectile trauma takes place that’s bad enough to rupture a part or parts of the penis like the tunica albuginea and penile corpora – parts necessary for getting it up in the first place.
The man also managed to injure his urethra too – hence his difficulties peeing.
The article says such fractures are often the result of ‘a buckling injury’ that was the result of the patient’s penis hitting a sexual partner’s pubic bone or perineum in the midst of ‘vigorous’ sex.
According to a 2017 study from the Journal of Impotence Research, doggy style was found to be the top most dangerous sex position for penile fractures, with 44% of reported breakages happening when couples were engaging in this one.
Second place was taken up by missionary, which was found to be responsible for 25% of penis-breaking cases.
However, according to this case report, most penis breaks occur when couples engage in a ‘female superior’ position – aka, when the penetratee is on top.
A penile fracture can also happen during masturbation, or even just turning over in bed at night.
But don’t fret too much, because data shows that just one in 175,000 hospital admissions in the US is down to a broken penis.
While there could very well be an underreporting of cases, we’re betting most people would take their penis’ health seriously enough to be straight up with doctors about what had gone wrong for them.
Fortunately for this man, he was taken urgently to surgery, and it went without a hitch.
In a follow-up appointment a month later, he was found to be back to ‘normal’, sexually and urinarily speaking.
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