# Penile fracture **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [December 30, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741 "2002-12-30T20:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SniggleBritches](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@SniggleBritches](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SniggleBritches)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/1 "2002-12-30T20:24:09Z")
Through a circuitous route, I happened upon [Cecil’s column on sex related injuries](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_426.html) . 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. Opinions? Anyone else able to do this? SB ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/2 "2002-12-31T05:32:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SniggleBritches \* > **Opinions? Anyone else able to do this?** Since no one else has replied… Yes. I would go into more detail, if only we could post anonymously. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/3 "2002-12-31T05:34:33Z")
And before anyone asks… No, my penis does NOT have a knuckle. Although the potential boggles the mind… ---
**Author:** ![Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dc4da7/32.png) [@Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rider)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/4 "2002-12-31T20:51:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dc4da7/32.png) [@Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rider)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2002, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/5 "2002-12-31T20:53:12Z")
Sorry, perineum. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/6 "2003-01-02T21:24:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rider \* > \*\*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. \*\* And, even if damage is avoided, a hell of a lot of pain. [/voice of experience] ---
**Author:** ![cdhostage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/7 "2003-01-03T04:13:34Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/8 "2003-01-03T16:39:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cdhostage \* > \*\*Damage avoided! Please! \*\* 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 … ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2003, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/9 "2003-01-05T09:15:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/10 "2003-01-06T02:28:06Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cdhostage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@cdhostage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdhostage)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/11 "2003-01-08T03:31:02Z")
Damage Avoided! Please! In America this is translated as “I do not believe you that damage was avoided.” ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/12 "2003-01-08T04:47:21Z")
Of course it can happen…here’s proof! [http://www.thehumorarchives.com/attachment\_files/cockbone.jpg](http://www.thehumorarchives.com/attachment_files/cockbone.jpg) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/13 "2003-01-08T15:32:26Z")
I see now my confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/14 "2003-01-08T17:04:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penile-fracture/145741/15 "2003-01-08T18:40:53Z")
Sorry Arnold.