When penis enlargement goes wrong
When penis enlargement goes wrong: Scientists reveal the dangers of girth-increasing procedures which can cause gangrene, deformity and other ‘devastating complications’
- A study of 11 men by California scientists revealed horrifying complications
- One 21-year-old injected his own penis with silicone and it became infected
- While a 48-year-old had fat injected into his member but it swelled out of control
- Experts say most men who have the procedure had normal penises to begin with
Penis enlargement operations have seen a popularity boom in recent years – but when things go wrong the consequences can be gruesome.
A first-of-its kind scientific study has examined the horrifying effects of 11 men’s penis enlargement failures.
Gangrene, deformity, ‘severe shortening’, infection and massive swelling were all stomach-churning results of the risky procedure.
The study, which explains the cases in gory detail, warns having injections to boost the manhood can result in ‘devastating and long-lasting complications’.
Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, found men aged between 21 and 77 had suffered ‘devastating and long-lasting’ complications from having substances surgically injected into their penises to make them thicker (stock image)
Researchers at the University of California in Irvine followed the cases of 11 men who had complications after penis enlargement surgery, also known as penoplasty.
The procedure is carried out by injecting a substance into the penis tissue to make the organ thicker for aesthetic or sexual reasons.
Men in the study had an average age of 47, with the youngest just 21 and the eldest 77 years old.
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Most of the patients had silicone injections, though one injected himself with saline, and two others had injections of fat or a soft tissue replacing substance.
Four of the patients – including the youngest men in the study, at the ages of 21 and 36 – made the enlargement attempts themselves.
ONLINE PORN HAS FUELLED A RISE IN PENIS OPS
Online porn has been blamed for a record rise in men seeking penis fillers to make their manhood bigger.
Clinics in the UK have reported up to a 70-fold boost in queries about the injections over the past three years.
Stuart Price, a 36-year-old from Caerphilly in Wales, said the procedure took the girth of his manhood from 4.9 inches (12.5cm) to 5.9 inches (15cm).
Dr Asif Muneer, from the British Association of Urological Surgeons, told the BBC he would discourage men from the procedure, warning it could lead to complications.
Dr Muneer said: ‘Some men may be driven by unrealistic expectations — partly driven by online pornography.’
Moorgate Aesthetics and Androfill in the UK say they now receive around 700 calls from men each month – up from the 10 they used to get.
And the two firms also revealed they now carry out around 130 of the penis filler procedures, which cost in the region of £3,000.
But the effects of the injection only last for around 18 months.
But these ambitious DIYers were rewarded with deformity, infection, gangrene, chronic ulceration and a ‘buried penis’.
Many of the afflicted men required surgery – in some cases the flesh of the penis had to be completely stripped away or split open.
The authors wrote in their study: ‘Penile enlargement surgeries are often promoted and presented as safe with minimal risks, yet we have seen… the risks are significant.’
In one particularly disturbing case, a 48-year-old man had fat injected under the skin on his penis, but suffered ‘major penile shaft swelling and deformity’.
The hugely swollen penis, which resembled a potato, had to be sliced just below the head and the skin peeled back to the body like a banana so the fat could be removed.
The skin was then rolled back down and reattached near the head of the penis, and the patient then had to be treated for an infection after surgery.
Researchers were particularly concerned the vast majority of men seeking penis enlargement surgery have normal members to begin with.
They suggest fear about having a small penis is a form of body dysmorphia, in which people become obsessive about finding faults with their body.
‘Most patients who seek penile augmentation have normal penile length and anatomy,’ they wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
A table included in the study revealed a breakdown of the ages of each patient, what went wrong with their penis after having the injection (the column labelled Complication), and how it was treated by medics (Outcome)
At one unnamed clinic, over a two-year period every single man who enquired about the procedure had a normal penis, the report said.
And its authors added: ‘Most men seeking penile lengthening surgery overestimate normal penile length. In some cases, patients may benefit from psychotherapy.
‘Instead of risking the potentially detrimental complications of penile enhancement surgery, men with normal penile size and anatomy may experience benefit from less risky alternatives.’
But they said men who are determined to have the procedure should be required to discuss their reasons and expectations with a professional beforehand.
In a final warning the authors added there was a ‘very real potential for devastating and long-lasting complications’.
WHAT IS THE AVERAGE PENIS SIZE?
For years, men the world over have wanted to know if their manhood measures up compared to others.
So, a team of researchers in 2015 sought to find out the global average for penis size.
Their work revealed the mean length of an erect penis is 5.2 inches (13.12 cm), scientists found.
Meanwhile, the average length of a flaccid penis is 3.6 inches (9.16 cm) and 5.2 inches (13.24 cm) when flaccid but stretched.
And when it comes to girth, the average erect circumference was 4.6 inches (11.66 cm) and 3.7 inches (9.31 cm) when flaccid.
The research, carried out by King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, also found there was a small correlation between the erect length of a penis and a man’s height.
The team looked at 17 studies of 15,521 men worldwide who underwent penis size measurements by health professionals using a standard procedure.
The paper was published in the British Journal of Urology International.
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