# Are you SURE you want to remove that?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 21, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572 "2006-08-21T11:37:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/1 "2006-08-21T11:37:38Z")
Actual headline.
Man in India with two function penises wants one removed.:
[http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-08-19T202533Z\_01\_DEL270522\_RTRIDST\_0\_OUKOE-UK-INDIA-OPERATION.XML](http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-08-19T202533Z_01_DEL270522_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-INDIA-OPERATION.XML)
Immediate reaction is pretty much what the headline says. On reflection, I’m not so sure. Given my druthers, I kinda think I’d want to keep both.
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### Author:  [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/2 "2006-08-21T16:40:40Z")
Daily Snopes introduced this story the EXACT same way.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/3 "2006-08-21T16:45:34Z")
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> Daily Snopes introduced this story the EXACT same way.
Well, of _course_ it did. That’s where I stole it from
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### Author:  [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/4 "2006-08-21T16:53:46Z")
I find it understandable. If I had two penises I’d want one removed. Two penises isn’t very practical, and having the girl you just picked up scream and run from the room as soon as you drop your daks has got to get old after a while.
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### Author:  [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/5 "2006-08-21T16:53:57Z")
I’m sure he’s thought through his decision thoroughly. It’s not like he of all people could go off half-cocked.
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### Author:  [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/6 "2006-08-21T18:26:37Z")
I dunno. They do say that two heads are better than one.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/7 "2006-08-21T18:47:21Z")
He’s got a lotta balls asking for that operation.
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/8 "2006-08-21T18:50:23Z")
Hope they don’t give him the bill 'til he’s well healed, 'cos I’m sure he’s going to need a stiff one when they do.
Of course, he could always give them the shaft…
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### Author:  [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/9 "2006-08-21T18:58:19Z")
I think it would be great to be coming and going at the same time.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/10 "2006-08-21T19:01:10Z")
Do you think he’ll be happier afterwards? I’m definitely not cutting off my penis until I hear.
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### Author:  [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/11 "2006-08-21T19:06:33Z")
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> Two fully functional penes is unheard of even in medical literature.
At last–an answer to what the proper plural of _penis_ is.
As a woman, I think I might dig this guy. “Honey, let’s try the left one tonight.” It’s variety without actually cheating!
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/12 "2006-08-21T22:17:04Z")
You have to admit, it offers the owner an interesting answer to the “do you dress to the left or the right” question.
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### Author:  [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/13 "2006-08-22T02:03:22Z")
That would make a ménage à trois that much more enjoyable for everybody involved. Especially for him. I wonder if that would count as a multiple orgasm?
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-sure-you-want-to-remove-that/369572/14 "2006-08-22T03:04:24Z")
> [@Madd Maxx](#):
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> That would make a ménage à trois that much more enjoyable for everybody involved.
For her, it would be a menage a trois every time.