# Is it possible for a man to have two penises?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 27, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222 "2003-12-27T04:02:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/1 "2003-12-27T04:02:21Z")
My sister was talking about some sex Q&A show on tv, and I was reminded of an old radio call-in show called “Love Phone”, that my friends and I used to listen to in high school. One particular call always stuck with me-some guy called in and claimed to have TWO penises! Yes, two-almost identical in size and shape.
Is this possible? Or was the guy just having a lark? I mean, he said that he had no medical problems and the like, both of them were fully functional. Da’hell?
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### Author:  [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/2 "2003-12-27T04:08:21Z")
AFAIK there´s at least one such… ehem, endowed guy around, saw it on TV, although (luckly) he didn´t drop his pants live.
I refuse to look for cites on this, and if someone asks, I´d never been here. 😉
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### Author:  [@AndrewL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndrewL)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/3 "2003-12-27T04:13:16Z")
I have seen, ah, documentary footage of a man with such anatomical equipment. Putting it to use. Purely for reasons of scientific record, of course.
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### Author:  [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/4 "2003-12-27T04:47:44Z")
I’ve seen a picture in a book – I believe it was _History Laid Bare_ – of a man who did in fact have two penises. It looks like he was basically conjoined twins that didn’t separate very far – he also had a literal third leg, a strange skinny looking thing with a ten-toed foot.
I doubt that situation’s terribly common though.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/5 "2003-12-27T05:10:09Z")
I have an mpeg of a human oddity, err, human interest story (taken off a German news program, if memory serves,) of a fellow. They were briefly shown “in use,” in the sense that they were being peed through. I suspect that the sort of documentary **AndrewL** refers to would be more enlightening about the, uh, dual-use that that organ can be put to.
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### Author:  [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/6 "2003-12-27T05:15:51Z")
There was some guy who had five. His pants fit him like a glove.
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### Author:  [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/7 "2003-12-27T08:51:24Z")
It’s common enough (though still rare) to have two penises that such a condition has its own term: _diphallic terata_.
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### Author:  [@Lithium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lithium)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/8 "2003-12-27T09:09:11Z")
Yes, I saw it on Stile.
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### Author:  [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/9 "2003-12-27T09:27:48Z")
[http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_730137.html](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_730137.html)
There are a pig and a goat with extra appendages in Eastern Europe, the animals are celebrities of a sort.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/10 "2003-12-27T10:29:06Z")
_diphallic terata_
Of course it’s quote trite, but this on REALLY would make a great band name.
Also, I don’t have two penii, but mine has a dual personality, kind of like Good Penis, Bad Penis.
Oh, geez, I just talked about my penis on a message board. :o
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/11 "2003-12-27T10:30:15Z")
:smack: _quite_ !!
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### Author:  [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/12 "2003-12-27T11:40:52Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by An Arky \*
> \*\*_diphallic terata_
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> \*\*
latin translation: very lucky man.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/13 "2003-12-27T12:01:41Z")
Dunno 'bout that. Can’t do two women with 'em, unless maybe one of them’s in the middle of your chest or something, but that would be weird.
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### Author:  [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/14 "2003-12-27T12:16:19Z")
“why you doubled over in pain bob? that ball only hit you in the chest.”
“man bob really hates playing open chest”
I tried but I just could not bring my self to post the uses of an additional talywacker.
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### Author:  [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/15 "2003-12-27T12:19:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by AndrewL \*
> \*\*I have seen, ah, documentary footage of a man with such anatomical equipment. Putting it to use. Purely for reasons of scientific record, of course. \*\*
😃
:rolleyes:
:dubious:
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### Author:  [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/16 "2003-12-27T14:51:58Z")
“Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others” by Daniel Mannix.
Includes photographs of Frank Lentini, renowned sideshow “unusual person” best known for his three legs. Yes, I know that sounds like a joke, but he actually had three legs.
He also had two penises, both of which are in one of the photos. Doesn’t say if that was part of his sideshow act, though…
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### Author:  [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/17 "2003-12-27T15:16:48Z")
Wanted: Bilingual secretary for biphallic executive.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/18 "2003-12-27T15:21:12Z")
Yes, but only one or none can be his.
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### Author:  [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/19 "2003-12-27T15:23:16Z")
I found a web page about a Cuban fellow in the 19th century who had this condition, complete with picture. Two penes, and a vestigial third leg.
Mindful of the “two click” rule I won’t provide a direct link, but if you google on “Jean Baptista dos Santos” you’ll get there. The page has this little tidbit:
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> Fisher, to whom we are indebted for an exhaustive work in teratology, received a report from Havana in July, 1865, which detailed a description of Santos at twenty-two years of age, and said that he was possessed of extraordinary animal passion, the sight of a female alone being sufficient to excite him. He was said to use both penises, after finishing with one continuing with the other; but this account of him does not agree with later descriptions, in which no excessive sexual ability had been noticed.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-for-a-man-to-have-two-penises/221222/20 "2003-12-27T16:28:37Z")
What was it? LBJ? Who said he didn’t trust a man unless he had his pecker in his pocket?
Using that philosophy LBJ could have had HUNDREDS!
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