So, got a bite-sized thingie? There's hope for you yet!

[Buford T Pusser]

I like the author's name.

Length-boosting surgery for 'micro-penises'


19:17 06 December 04

NewScientist.com news service

A new surgical procedure has allowed men with abnormally short penises to enjoy a full sex life and urinate standing up, some for the first time. Tiny "micro-penises" have been enlarged to normal size without losing any erogenous sensation, say UK doctors.

"Micro-penis" refers to any penis shorter than 7 centimetres when fully erect - approximately half of the average length (12.5 cm). Approximately one in every 200 men have a micro-penis, either because of a birth defect or because they have undergone cancer treatments.

"It's not so much penile enlargement as penile construction," says David Ralph at the University College of London, UK, who will describe the technique on Wednesday at a sexual medicine conference in London. Until now, these men have not been able to have sex or urinate in a urinal because their penis was too short.

In the past, flaps of skin from the forearm had been used to reconstruct a penis from scratch, either to physically transform women into men or to replace an amputated penis. But this technique actually fuses the new penis with the existing one so, besides the adding of sheer bulk, erogenous sensation can be preserved.


Cylindrical flap


Ralph operated on nine men aged between 19 and 43 with a range of medical histories, including three hermaphrodites, two with other birth defects and two whose penises did not develop properly after undergoing chemotherapy as infants.

He made three 12.5 cm incisions in the arms of these patients, harvesting a square flap of skin. While it was still attached to the arm he rolled it up "like a Swiss roll" with a tube running down the centre. Ralph then cut off the cylindrical flap and sewed it at one end to the base of the micro-penis - so that original penis ran along the inside of the cylinder.

To preserve erogenous sensation, he also cut the tip of the penis - called the glans - away from the main shaft, while leaving the blood vessels and nerves intact. While still being connected to the blood vessels and nerves of the micro-penis, the glans was sewn back to the outside end of the new penis. Arteries, veins and nerves from the pelvis were also joined to supply the new penis.


Full sexual function

The skin on the arm is perfect, says Ralph, because the blood vessels are about the same size as those in the pelvis and are positioned so that the two can easily be joined together. The arm is restored with a skin graft from the buttocks.

But for full sexual function, a penile prosthesis - used frequently by men who have problems achieving an erection - must also be implanted. It consists of a silicone cylinder that lines the penis shaft and is attached via a pump to a silicone reservoir in the abdomen. Pushing a button under the scrotum causes fluid to pass from the reservoir into the shaft, stiffening the penis.

"It’s certainly a nice gain for the field," says Anthony Atala, a urologist at Wake Forest School of Urology in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US. No one had ever combined the disconnection of the glans with a skin graft, he says.

Transsexuals and amputation victims who have skin transferred from their forearm to the pelvis have no glans to start off with, and so have to manage without erogenous sensation in their reconstructed penis. And patients with abnormally short urethras have had their glans disconnected to undergo a urethra extension, but this had not been combined with a skin graft.


Celeste Biever




http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996761

[j123vt_99]

is mrs pusser excited about the news?

[Buford T Pusser]

Go ahead and take the obvious joke.

[Max Bottomtime]

I wonder how many patients ask the surgeon to use the entire forearm.

[fnordboy]

Originally Posted by Buford T Pusser

Approximately one in every 200 men have a micro-penis

Obviously several members here must have this affliction.... fess up people.

[DVD Polizei]

The bigger your DVD collection, the bigger your penis. It's a DVD Talk Fakt.

Ok people, let's see your collections...

[fnordboy]

Originally Posted by DVD Polizei

The bigger your DVD collection, the bigger your penis. It's a DVD Talk Fakt.

Ok people, let's see your collections...

Hmm.. no I don't like that idea

[Max Bottomtime]

Honest, I only have around 300 DVDs!

[BlasTech Industries CEO]

"and urinate standing up, some for the first time"

Okay, maybe I just have such a big c0ck that I can't fathom this problem...but how can you not pee standing up if your thingy is tiny? You can't use your hand to aim???

[The_Infidel]

So, is this thread another cleverly disguised invitation for the male Talkers to whip their shit out?

I remember suggesting last time this came up (no pun intended) that we should have a DVD Talkers Penises On Parade thread....for the DVD Talk women to enjoy!

[costanza]

the take a chunk of your forearm and put it in your penis. then they take a chunk of your ass and put it in your forearm. then your penis is finally long enough to put it in someones ass doggy style. the magic has come full circle!

[Nifty03]

Originally Posted by Max Bottomtime

Where did you get this picture, She swore that she deleted all of them the little bitc....I mean I sure am glad I don't have this problem, no sir, not me.
(Where are they doing that operation again, research you know)

[mrnededwards]

And you have that pic for WHAT reason?

[Max Bottomtime]

Originally Posted by mrnededwards

And you have that pic for WHAT reason?

It comes up in this forum quite a bit.

[greg9x]

It's kvrdave's avatar isn't it ??

[The_Infidel]

Originally Posted by greg9x

It's kvrdave's avatar isn't it ??

If your definition of avatar is "smaller version of a normally larger thing", then yep...that's his avatar, all right.

[Buford T Pusser]

Looking through LJ pix and what should (sorta) pop up but this:

[costanza]

is that another screen cap from the chyna video?

[Nifty03]

Doesn't the camera add an inch?