The Sex Life
This page contains some of the e-mail that I have posted with your permission,
selected posts from the Message Board, or from the
PeyGroup.
One respondant states...
While I do not think that I have a clinical case of Peyroine's, my penis
curves upward at a slight angle. I've never had a trauma of the penis,
nor are my erections painful at all. I've had this curve all my life
and have always thought that it was as a result of the tightness of my
penile suspensatory ligaments. However, perhaps I am mistaken. It has
never caused me any discomfort nor rejection by a sexual partner, but
you have peaked my interest in knowing more about this condition.
I once knew a very nice man whose penis was "L" shaped when erect. It
bent severely to the left in almost a 90 degree angle. It troubled him
greatly,
This is from an article in MSNBC News:
I’ve been endowed with a penis shaped roughly
like a banana. Though I haven’t pulled out my
protractor, I’d guess that, in full glory, it deviates
down toward the ground about 30-45 degrees from
base to tip. Exacerbated by fairly substantial
dimensions and a stone-hard resistance to bending,
some women I’ve slept with have found certain
positions painful or impossible, though a few liked
what the novelty did for them. Most women became
accustomed to it. My present girlfriend, however,
hasn’t. She finds the necessary restrictions on
positions and angles a serious detriment to intimacy.
I’m at a loss.
— Going Bananas
I forwarded your letter to Dr. James H. Barada, a
urologist at the Center for Male Sexual Health in Albany,
N.Y., and assistant professor of surgery at Albany Medical
College.
“Curvature of the penis can be either congenital or
acquired,” he says. In the former case, you’re born with
“erectile chambers which develop in unequal proportions,
either laterally or top to bottom.” The latter condition is
called Peyronie’s disease, and its actual cause is unknown
— although Barada says, “It seems related to microtrauma
associated with sex.” (Read: “rough riding.”) With both
types of curvatures, “the elastic, erectile tissues are replaced
with fibrous tissue, which doesn’t stretch adequately,”
Barada explains, and erections can become quite painful.
The good doctor assumes, since you indicate no pain on
your part, and your banana shape wasn’t recently sprung
upon you, that your dangerous curves are congenital.
BETTER WTIH TIME
Barada claims that, without treatment, a third of guys
with bent penises get better over time, a third remain the
same and a third worsen. You don’t sound like you’re
improving. You can try injections with dissolving agents,
but, Barada notes, they don’t always work. Surgery will
most effectively straighten you out, he says. It’s not a
difficult procedure, and you’ll need only four to six weeks to
recover before trying out your new, improved member.
Because we’re
talking about
slicing into your
penis here, there’s
‘a small chance’
of scar tissue and
decreased
sensitivity.
With surgery, there’s “a small chance” of scar tissue
and decreased sensitivity. Also, since the surgery entails
taking some tucks in the erectile tissue to level the playing
field of your penis, “if you curve a lot, there may be some
apparent penile shortening.” Wait, come back! I know
that’s not what you want to hear. Let Barada reassure you:
“If you take the arc of the curve into consideration, you’ll
have the same functional length.” (In other words, assuming
you’re 6 inches erect right now, you’re not a full, extended
6 inches anyway, so the shortened length will probably enter
your partner just as deeply.) Besides, women don’t flee in
fright from your bent penis — so why would they blink at a
slightly shorter one, which is far more common?
PERFECT PARTNER
Of course, you can always keep your idiosyncratic
penis and just find partners who don’t, as your current lady
friend does, find it painful or mind limiting their repertoire of
positions to those that minimize that pain.
(Variety may not always be an option with a straight
penis, either: Some people find certain positions
uncomfortable regardless of the shape or size of their
partners’ penises.)
An e-mail I received:
Its pretty bad, not quite that bad when I am lying down, but when I'm
standing up it seems pretty severe. It seriously affects my sexlife,
I'm scared sh**less to drop my pants because of it. If it turns me off
I can only imagine what it'd do to some girl.
It bends in the middle at about a 30 degree or so angle. I was
considering surgery, but I doubt my hmo would pay for it. I've read
that it costs over $5,000 to get the problem corrected. If it gets
worse though it may be justifiable.
Another e-mail I received:
My concern with my bent penis has never been to do with pain or
discomfort,
rather with simple aesthetics. It always made me feel odd, like I
wasn't
quite normal or something.
With time, I have on the whole accepted it and I don't worry about it
as much
as before, and I realize there are more men who have this condition
then I
previously thought. However, if it can be improved, I'm for it as well.
As it is not painful, I am nowadays inclined to look at it with more
humour,
and it has never seemed to bother any sexual partner that I have had,
so I
figure it's not the end of the world.
E-mail: rubent2@yahoo.com
