# Is it true men can suffer penile fracture? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [June 13, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/499693 "2009-06-13T21:37:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sissy54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@Sissy54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sissy54)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/499693/1 "2009-06-13T21:37:02Z")
Apparently in 1988 Cecil thought it was “goofy” that a man could suffer penile fracture. He classified such men as “Meatballs”. My husband recently had just such a traumatic experience and he said there is no person in the world that he hates enough to wish that on them. The surgeon who specializes in this urology surgery doesn’t consider it to be “Goofy” and in fact says it is a more common occurrence than we would imagine. How Cecil could belittle someone who has suffered a severe traumatic injury to any part of their body, let alone a part that is so sensitive and vital to most men’s emotional, physical and mental health, is amazing to me. Perhaps that part of his anatomy doesn’t mean much to him, but he shouldn’t downgrade those that have suffered this analmoly. I would suggest he read a little more on the many different ways it can happen, and not hold himself on so high a platform (pedestal). Beware, it could happen to you! Unless you just don’t get involved enough in enjoying sex to have any concerns??? In that case, I would feel sorry for your partner. Criticism of anyone’s physical injuries is inappropriate by someone who is so widely read. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/499693/2 "2009-06-13T21:57:20Z")
Hello **Sissy54**. Just FYI, here it is considered a courtesy to link to the article you are commenting on. Is [this](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/608/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture) it? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/499693/3 "2009-06-14T03:35:48Z")
Cecil said: > [@](#): > > Now, far be it from me to add insult to injury, but how could you be so klutzy that you “missed the introitus”? Admittedly the target is small and the visibility isn’t the best, but we’re talking point-blank range here. According to certain videos, even professionals have the occasional accidental popping out of place or difficulty finding the hole. I’m more concerned about this: > [@](#): > > He “missed the introitus [and] hit the perineum [the area behind his partner’s genitals],” causing his penis to fracture (my emphasis). Damn, how hard was he going at it? ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/499693/4 "2009-06-19T15:45:14Z")
> [@Sissy54](#): > > … Perhaps that part of his anatomy doesn’t mean much to him, but he shouldn’t downgrade those that have suffered this analmoly. Whoa! **Anal-moly**!? Is that how he acheived penile fracture?..Sounds painful but I don’t think my wife is into that anyway. OTOH, I can’t believe Cecil belittled your husband back in 1988, fully aware that this would eventually happen to him! Of course, letting everyone on Straight Dope and the internet know about his personal injury must be great for his confidence since it > [@Sissy54](#): > > … is so sensitive and vital to most men’s emotional, physical and mental health. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-men-can-suffer-penile-fracture/499693/5 "2009-06-21T01:12:00Z")
Got to barge in here and bleat “they had this storyline on Grey’s Anatomy this season” (the younger sister-who-looks-like-a-rodent and her reluctant boyfriend) and boy, howdy, was that an excrutiating thing to even hear about! I imagine such a thing happening was news to some people.