# Policemen forbidden from getting penis enlargments **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 23, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142 "2010-04-23T20:04:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142/1 "2010-04-23T20:04:03Z")
Police officials in the Indonesian province of Paupa are [disqualifying](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100423/od_nm/us_indonesia_police) applicants who’ve had their penises enlarged because “_the unnatural size causes hindrance during training_”. Gee, I wonder just what the local police training involves and how men blessed with naturally large penises handle it. 😃 Paupa is home to tribes where the men where penis gourds, but one would think that police uniforms would be a bit more modest. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142/2 "2010-04-23T20:08:50Z")
Maybe they trip over it while chasing down suspects. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142/3 "2010-04-23T21:24:06Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Gee, I wonder just what the local police training involves and how men blessed with naturally large penises handle it. We handle it very enthusiastically, I can assure you. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142/4 "2010-04-23T22:31:24Z")
Did you read about their technique for doing it? :eek: > [@](#): > > Papuans use a local technique to achieve the enlargement, according to a sexologist quoted by local newspaper Jakarta Globe, wrapping the penis with leaves from the “gatal-gatal” (itchy) tree so that it swells up “like it has been stung by a bee,” the expert said. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142/5 "2010-04-23T22:47:24Z")
“Papuans use a local technique to achieve the enlargement, according to a sexologist quoted by local newspaper Jakarta Globe, wrapping the penis with leaves from the “gatal-gatal” (itchy) tree so that it swells up “like it has been stung by a bee,” the expert said” Bahhh. Everyone knows the best thing to wrap anything with is bacon. or Hung like a butterfly, stung by a bee (tree?) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142/6 "2010-04-23T23:21:12Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > …Bahhh. Everyone knows the best thing to wrap anything with is bacon… Too much shrinkage after cooking. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2010, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/policemen-forbidden-from-getting-penis-enlargments/537142/7 "2010-04-23T23:43:56Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > 😃 Paupa is home to tribes where the men where penis gourds, but one would think that police uniforms would be a bit more modest. In the tribes that use them penis gourds ARE the modest attire of a proper gentleman. Different culture and all. Thought what that has to do with police training I haven’t a clue…