Back when I was a regular listener to talk radio, the ads for PE snake oil were absolutely ubiquitous. They aired more than any other product I can remember (except maybe Bose Wave radio).<p>I never knew how to feel for this target audience. It sucks people are vulnerable to obvious snake oil ads. It also sucks that PE is a thing that's important to people.<p>Male body shaming is weird and oogy.
tl; dr:<p>Starts with some absolute horror stories (e.g. complete loss of function), continues to talk about the technology improving, but still includes horror stories.<p>It's not clear if the average outcome is horrible, but it sounds like people are getting paid to advocate or sued for sharing horror stories, so it's hard to trust anything.
From a technology point of view there is a lesson in how a company controls the media it's customers consume. How alternative sources of data get discredited and how untrusted the information found online is. The result, when you can't trust anyone, is to trust the source you want to believe. Many men want to believe they'll get a bigger penis.
From the article:<p>> Some implants got infected or detached. Others buckled at the corners. Occasionally these protrusions broke through the skin, forming holes that would fester. The hole of the health-spa vice president was so tiny that he originally mistook its fermented odor for an STD.<p>> Later, doctors unaffiliated with the Penuma would compare such penises to “a torpedo,” “a penguin,” “a pig in a blanket,” “a beer can with a mushroom sticking out on the top” and “the tipped-down nose of the Concorde.”
IIRC the Kamasutra says there's 3 genital sizes for both men and women; big (horse/elephant), medium (bull/mare) and small (hare/deer). It says you can have great sex with up to 1 size difference, and although the woman being one size smaller is preferable to her being one size bigger, it calls equal unions the most perfect ones. And that's just refering to vaginal intercourse itself, of course there is so much more to sex.<p>I don't know what my point is, other than: don't fret! If you find someone you like, and who likes you, a lot of silliness and unfounded fear will fade away.
The summary actually does it’s job:<p>> Kevin said that he had undergone five surgeries with Elist, including two upgrades, a revision and a removal, and his penis no longer functioned.<p>Still, Kevin had always found the surgeon to be caring, if a little preoccupied. “He reminded me of Doctor Frankenstein — the intensity of him wanting this thing to come to life,” Kevin told me. It sounded strange, he acknowledged, but before each operation he’d been filled with excitement. “You just feel relieved that you’re fixing something,” he said.<p>At an appointment earlier this year, Kevin said, Elist promised to fix him again with a sixth procedure, but one of the surgeon’s assistants discreetly advised against it. Kevin thought he could spot “the other experiments” in the clinic from their loose-fitting sweatpants and the awkward way they walked. There were so many men waiting to see the doctor that they spilled into the hallway.<p>…<p>I think I’m of the ideal height, with the ideal penis size… so there’s a requisite for this entire article that I just won’t understand. But that last paragraph would scare the hell out of me if this was something I was interested in.
Only thing that actually works without horrifying side effects is a Bathmate. Even then, the results are quite limited, and very temporary.<p>C’est la vie
> A year had passed since Mick’s explant, and he’d entered a serious depression. He’d barely noticed when pandemic restrictions were lifted, because he’s continued to stay in his bed. Originally six and a half inches erect, he had lost an inch of length.<p>Dude was already above the average cited in the article before he went under the knife. That's some tragic dysmorphia.
Most are scam , I think.
Random stuff:
- [big gun] :) , is exception, not rule. Exercises, luck, pillows? Stop working after 30s? Not much old movie performers?
small is better than nothing no? I mean, some nice women are happy with their half centimeter!
I guess some women have their own fun/thing. Cant compete with [dildo dragon] thing
[dildo/dragon/glove] thing can be men's best friend. Helps to fill the void :). It is an art, though.<p>not native sorry!
Reading this made me extremely uneasy. My impression - perhaps it's just being hopeful for a material solution for a psychosis of the mind. But when I think on that impression isn't a pill just about any fleeting vice the same as what these men have suffered. Maybe I'm not better. We need avenues to help each other. To talk with another. Maybe there's an opportunity to create something?
penumba!<p><pre><code> > Elist sat behind an imposing desk in a borrowed office and spoke about his
> forthcoming book, a collection of parables for spiritually minded surgeons
> titled "Operating with God." His ghostwriter had rendered his voice so
> skillfully, he said, that he'd found himself moved to tears while reading
> it. Beside a gilt statue of a jaguar in the corner of the room, someone had
> propped a mirror with an image of Jesus etched at its center. As Elist
> recounted passages from his book, his merry face, crowned by a hairnet,
> hovered next to Christ's.
</code></pre>
The above reads like a Tales From the Crypt movie script, in the leadup to Elist slicing into yet another victim's Johnson.