Through a circuitous route, I happened upon Cecil’s column on sex related injuries . In reading about penile fractures, I got to thinking of a friend of mine from college. He, as a gay man, seemed to think it was his job to educate me about men and their penile indiosyncrasies.
Right.
Anyway, he told me that one could “pop” a morning erection if need be, by pushing down on it at a certain angle. Apparently, it was painless - he said it basically “popped opened the valve” at the base of the penis by increasing the blood pressure against said mechanism, thus allowing blood to flow out.
I was wondering if this was true, him yanking my chain, or maybe something related to the penile fractures I read about (injury to the corpus cavernosum?). Not that I’d mind if his suddenly became inoperable - I could have lived without those early morning, pre-coffee talks about his last evening’s assignation.
One common scenario that Cecil fails to mention here is that when a woman is working away on top of a man the penis sometimes slips out if she goes up too high and she comes down hard on his member with her perimeum (or that general area), thereby bending it almost in two and causing some damage.
Damage avoided! Please! There’s a whole lot of pressure in a penis at full inflation, such as during intercourse. The… stink… forgetting my anatomy. The outer layer is skin, next one in which surrounds spongey blood-fillable tissue… I forget. For me anyway, that is hard as a rock during sex. It don’t bend none. Now that I think about it, I wonder how things might be diff (better?) if it could…
It’s called ‘woman isn’t quite so out of control as to slam down hard enough for the penis to break’. She caught herself and rolled off. We didn’t make love for awhile after that, though …
cdhostage, are you trying to imply that one can’t damage a penis? If so, read the column. If not, I don’t understand your “Damage Avoided! Please!” comment.
Actually, Irishman, I thought he was doubting my claim to have experienced a situation of this type in which the penis failed to break. I guess he thought that serious injury was inevitable in such an unfortunate situation; in my experience, depending on the angle of impact, the weight of the woman, and the, um, exuberance thereof, it is quite possible for the man to escape with nothing more than a hell of a lot of pain, but all major systems intact.
reeder - I don’t think that the picture is inappropriate as related to this column, but please be a little more cautious in posting links of that kind. That’s the kind of picture that might get someone in trouble if they pulled up the link at work. I changed the link to show as standard text in case someone really wants to see the picture - they can do it by a copy and paste of the URL.
