# Penis qustion..
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [June 16, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993 "2001-06-16T01:14:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@RAWisSYDNEY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWisSYDNEY)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2001, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/1 "2001-06-16T01:14:16Z")
Okay, i will make this short (no pun intended by any means!) and sweet.
In a penis, more specifically a humans penis, more specifically the urethra area, the urethra seems to be divided into 2 diffrent ‘tubes’ so to speak.
Like there is a ‘flap’ of skin seperating the urethra.
But you sort of have to pull back the ends of the head the tiniest teeniest little bit nust to see it.
Now i claim that this exists, and my friend claims it doesnt.
Who is right?
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/2 "2001-06-16T02:15:26Z")
Since 42 people before me have read the question without offering an answer, I guess it’s okay for me to weigh in with a non-medical observational response.
I have had the opportunity to be up close and personal with a penis whose meatus was split 1/2 way. That is, the opening to the urethra was not a small hole, but a slit going from tip to corona on one side. I suppose this is a “defect” but it doesn’t appear to have any effects. Anyway, the, um, orifice that this allows a keen observer to see into is not chambered or split in any way.
Unless the urethra I’ve just described is as unusual as the penis around it, I say no divided urethra.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/3 "2001-06-16T02:19:51Z")
Been doing medicine for 20 years, and examined countless urethrae, both male and female, and cultured lots of the male ones for STD’s, and cathed a lot of them too, and I’ve never seen the finding you describe. I’ve read that occasionally the urethra may be divided, but it’s not common.
Did see a double-barrel vagina once, tho. Looked normal externally, but when I did the speculum exam, I had to repeat it on the other side, to examine everything fully.
Qadgop
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### Author:  [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/4 "2001-06-16T02:49:24Z")
Er, sorry, I didn’t mean the meatus was split. The glans, making for a big opening. I think this condition is called a hypospadias.
It doesn’t help that these words make me giggle immaturely.
Qadgop, the potential opportunities for porn stardom for the patient you described are breathtaking to ponder.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2001, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/5 "2001-06-16T15:50:04Z")
Ive seen photos of some guys with two penises…maybe they fit those women? At any rate, a two penis guy would have a split pee tube I suppose?
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### Author:  [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/6 "2001-06-16T16:12:46Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by handy \*
> \*\*
> Ive seen photos of some guys with two penises…maybe they fit those women? At any rate, a two penis guy would have a split pee tube I suppose? \*\*
Pictures? Where?
_Not that I would be interested, of course._ 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/7 "2001-06-16T19:50:51Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by RAWisSYDNEY \*
> \*\*Okay, i will make this short (no pun intended by any means!) and sweet.
>
> In a penis, more specifically a humans penis, more specifically the urethra area, the urethra seems to be divided into 2 diffrent ‘tubes’ so to speak.
> Like there is a ‘flap’ of skin seperating the urethra.
> But you sort of have to pull back the ends of the head the tiniest teeniest little bit nust to see it.
>
> Now i claim that this exists, and my friend claims it doesnt.
>
> Who is right? \*\*
I think what you saw was simply that when not in use the walls of the urethra tend to collapse into a sort of figure eight, making it look like two tubes separated by a flap of tissue.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2001, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/8 "2001-06-17T00:29:23Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Lumpy \*
> I think what you saw was simply that when not in use the walls of the urethra tend to collapse into a sort of figure eight, making it look like two tubes separated by a flap of tissue.
Boy, I never saw it looking like that! Of course in my job, if I’m looking at the urethra at all, it’s generally while I’m squeezing the glans to open the urethra to jam something up it. And no, after the thousandth time, I no longer feel _any_ sympathetic pain.
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2001, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/9 "2001-06-17T04:53:14Z")
I think that the little bit of skin is for real, at least for a few people.
My, uh, opening has a little bit of skin across it.
When I was a kid, it wasn’t unusual for me to have two distinct streams of urine when I was urinating. As I got older, this happened with decreasing frequency. I think in the last five years the double stream has happened only once.
I think this officially makes me a freak, right?
Now I’m off to have a huge glass of water so I can double check this.
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### Author:  [@excitableboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excitableboy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/10 "2001-06-17T05:11:09Z")
My wife wishes I would only have two streams once every five years. The early morning pee session is often an escapade, but I think everything’s just smushed. Trust me, there’s no extra skin here…
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2001, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/11 "2001-06-17T12:50:15Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Atreyu \*
> \*\*I think that the little bit of skin is for real, at least for a few people.
>
> My, uh, opening has a little bit of skin across it.
>
> When I was a kid, it wasn’t unusual for me to have two distinct streams of urine when I was urinating. As I got older, this happened with decreasing frequency. I think in the last five years the double stream has happened only once.
>
> I think this officially makes me a freak, right?
>
> Now I’m off to have a huge glass of water so I can double check this. \*\*
This I have seen. It’s generally a foreskin remnant, but can sometimes (but much less often) be associated with hypospadias (the urethra being positioned low and large). It can make for an interesting shower effect. One patient told me that when he peed outside in the sunlight, he saw a rainbow.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/12 "2001-06-17T14:24:37Z")
urban1, no photos. It’s against board rules. I did make a screensaver once of a guy with two penises, so there must be some photos out there. You could ask for one in one of the weird sexual binary newsgroups.
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/13 "2001-06-17T16:01:38Z")
**urban1** , if you want to see pictures of a guy who had his _surgically split_ :eek:, check out a book called _ **Modern Primitives** _ published by ReSearch. They’ve got a close up photo of the plumbing of some guy who had his split down the middle for some reason. The caption to the photo is what kills me. It says something like, “The decision to have my penis split was a deeply personal one.” No duh! I mean its not something that you’d put on a billboard with a phone number asking people to call and vote on it! 😛
Needless to say, that book’s not for the squeamish as it features photos of all kinds of different “body manipulations” people have done to themselves. The split penis, however, is probably the most disturbing one.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/14 "2001-06-17T19:53:24Z")
That depends on the context, **handy**. We would allow such pictures if they were presented in a medical, educational context, provided that there were ample warnings before the link and it was relevant to the discussion at hand. If it’s intended just to tittilate, amuse, or arouse, though, then we wouldn’t allow it.
And since you’re about to ask, anyway, we use the “we know it when we see it” definition. If you’re thinking of posting such pictures, you should probably ask a mod or admin via e-mail, first.
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### Author:  [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/15 "2001-06-18T22:14:22Z")
I have read that some members of the Aborigines of Australia intentionally split their penises - it’s an ancient cultural practice. Basically what they do is make a puncture near the base on the underside of the penis through to the urethra, and then gradually – over the course of months or years – extend the incision to the tip of the penis so that the entire organ is “butterflied.” This, or a westerner inspired by this, is probably what **Tuckerfan** saw.
They claim it greatly increases the pleasure of intercourse, both for the male and female. The penis still tumesces, and I would imagine that it looks very much like a kielbasa split lengthwise and grilled… (ok, ok, without the grill marks.)
And you thought a Prince Albert was extreme!
I’m sure you can find out more at the [Body Modification Ezine](http://www.bme.freeq.com/), but I daren’t go there whilst at the office.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2001, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/16 "2001-06-18T22:41:13Z")
It’s easy to find the pictures Chronos. Just visit
[http://www.google.com/](http://www.google.com/) input ‘man with two penises’
Viola! Links.
Here is a censored one:
[http://www.echonyc.com/~rzacks/under/2penis2.htm](http://www.echonyc.com/~rzacks/under/2penis2.htm)
“Juan Battista de los Santos lived around the time of Civil War. He had two penises. Two large
penises. His doctors said he was a very cheerful man. He could have simultaneous orgasms with
two partners (that’s four orgasms). And afterwards, he could smoke a cigarette and pee to the left
and the right”
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### Author:  [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2001, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/17 "2001-06-18T23:00:08Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by handy \*
> \*\*urban1, no photos. It’s against board rules. I did make a screensaver once of a guy with two penises, so there must be some photos out there. You could ask for one in one of the weird sexual binary newsgroups. \*\*
Actually, I meant ‘links to’ and I was only half serious anyway.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@urban1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2001, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-qustion/68993/18 "2001-06-18T23:01:57Z")
**handy**
Now why didn’t I think of that. Google is amazing.