A friend of mine’s dad served in Vietnam. My friend was telling me some stories of his dad’s about how some soldiers would get an STD from prostitutes that would cause all kinds of gunk or pus to build up in their penis and eventually rot their insides. Instead of letting other guys know about whatever it was they caught they would hit their penises with some hard object to clean out the all the pus and keep it from hardening up and stopping them from urinating.
This sounds like something from a horror movie that my friend is telling me to get me to cringe. So either my friend or his dad is embelishing this story, right? Right?
I heard that story, but it was about the First World War, with all the French floozies. Ah, behold the French Connection — France and Vietnam. Maybe it’s the same germ — and/or the same floozies.
“This sounds like something from a horror movie that my friend is telling me to get me to cringe. So either my friend or his dad is embelishing this story, right? Right?”
Right. The U.S. National Institute of Health web site describes gonorrhea symptoms in men less frightening terms: “Men have symptoms more often than women. Symptoms include: pus from the penis and pain, or a burning sensation during urination that may be severe.” http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/stdgon.htm
I don’t think it was gonorrhea. According to my friend’s story, it wasn’t anything he’d ever heard of. I don’t think gonorrhea hardens up in your urinary tract and eventually rots your body and kills you, does it?
Sounds like he’s just messing with you. In Vietnam, wasn’t “drippy dick” the main culprit? (which is just the plain old clap)
If he can’t come up with a clinical name for it, it probably doesn’t exist.
PS- I don’t know any guy who would hit his own dick with a hard object rather than see a medic!
Actually, yep it does, more or less. At least if untreated. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, epididymitis, and, eventually, systemic problems. Including the joints and the heart.