Manhood: The Rise and Fall of the Penis by Mels van Driel

Author:Mels van Driel [Driel, Mels van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Science, History, Nonfiction, Psychology
ISBN: 9781861897084
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2010-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

Erectile dysfunction may also be the result of a trauma to the penis. An unexpected movement during intercourse, unforced or otherwise, or during masturbation can cause a tear in the wall of the erectile tissue.

The position in which the woman mounts the man back to front is the riskiest: the penis may bend in half against the woman’s pubic bone.

The tear is usually accompanied by a snapping sound, which is why urologists refer to it as a ‘fracture of the penis’. An operation to stitch the tear is the only correct remedy.

A woman threatened with rape is therefore best advised to try to break her attacker’s penis with her hand. Another option is to tense the pelvic floor so strongly that the man breaks his penis in his forced attempt at penetration. If a man presents with a fracture of the penis, a urologist with a sexological background will always keep the possibility of a sexual crime or at least rough sex at the back of his mind.

In the urological literature there are regular reports of human bite wounds to the penis. Oral sex has obviously still lost none of its popu larity. These types of bite wound are quite frequently complicated by a bacterial infection, and there is also a risk of transfer of a hepa -

titis or hiv virus. One of the potentially unpleasant results of oral sex is described in John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp, which evokes the life of a young writer in 1960s America.

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Garp’s wife Helen, in revenge for Garp’s infidelity, has begun an affair with one of her students. While Garp is away at the cinema with the children, Helen tries to convince her lover, Michael, of her intention to end the affair. They are standing in the driveway of the Garp family home. Michael finally agrees to disappear from her life for good provided she gives him one last blow-job – in the car – as they have often fantasized about: He let one hand stray to the back of Helen’s neck, which he gripped very tightly; his other hand opened his fly.

‘Michael!’ she said, sharply.

‘You always said you wanted to,’ he reminded her . . . ‘But it wasn’t safe, you said. Well, now it’s safe. The car isn’t even moving. There can’t be any accidents now,’ he said.

Michael Milton had allowed her to see himself with what struck Helen as necessary vulgarity. Suck him off, she thought, putting him into her mouth, and then he’ll leave.

She realizes that after ejaculation men usually quickly cease their demands, and her experiences in Michael’s flat had taught her that in his case it wouldn’t take too long. And time is of the essence. If Garp and the kids have gone to the shortest conceivable film, she has just twenty minutes. So she sets about it with determination, as if it were the last phase of a tiresome chore .

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