# Penis Shrinking surgery? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 10, 2004, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098 "2004-12-10T10:23:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/1 "2004-12-10T10:23:03Z")
Is there any surgical procedure to make your penis smaller? Don’t want to do it, just curious. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/2 "2004-12-10T13:22:46Z")
Do you mean and still function? It’d be pretty easy to take a scalpel and chop off a couple inches from the end 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/3 "2004-12-10T14:22:15Z")
Just trying to get even with all thoe gals getting breast reductions? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/4 "2004-12-10T15:31:56Z")
Ask [Fred Willard.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118111/quotes) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/5 "2004-12-10T15:59:50Z")
This talk of penis hacking is blasphemous! ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/6 "2004-12-10T16:41:16Z")
It seems unlikely, as there would be approximately zero demand for it. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/7 "2004-12-10T17:01:22Z")
You never heard of the Lorena Bobbitt method? ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/8 "2004-12-10T17:02:05Z")
I know it’s not factual but something related to this question. On a morning drive time radio show I was listening to about a year or so ago, they discussion vcame up of “what plastic surgery would you get if you were to get some”. One caller phoned in to say “uh yeah… i’d have 3 inches taken off of my penis.” Without missing a beat the radio DJ said “What would you do with a half inch penis?” ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/9 "2004-12-10T17:13:02Z")
Again not factual, but if we’re having fun… So this well-endowed guy is going for penis reduction surgery. The surgeon is suited up and ready for the operation. Gloves on, scalpel at the ready. Then he notices the nurse assisting is looking tearful, lip quivering. “Is there a problem, nurse?” “No doctor, it’s just… such a shame! What a waste!”, she says. The surgeon says, “We don’t have a choice but to operate, I’m afraid. The patient is having trouble walking without bashing that big thing against his knees.” Nurse reconsiders for a moment. “Well… can’t we just make his _legs_ longer?” ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/10 "2004-12-10T18:17:42Z")
I find that the contemplation of any penile surgery tends to have an immediate penis-shrinking effect. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/11 "2004-12-10T19:15:49Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > Do you mean and still function? It’d be pretty easy to take a scalpel and chop off a couple inches from the end 😛 Reading this just made **Little Ashtar** retreat. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/penis-shrinking-surgery/279098/12 "2004-12-10T21:53:04Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Reading this just made **Little Ashtar** retreat. Aha! So having a big penis is purely in the mind. (Which is probably usually true.)