# Why don't I have bone in my penis?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-i-have-bone-in-my-penis/271324>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 26, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-i-have-bone-in-my-penis/271324 "2004-10-26T22:43:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-i-have-bone-in-my-penis/271324/1 "2004-10-26T22:43:37Z")

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Lot’s of other mammals do. Why are primates excluded? What happened to our bone?

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-i-have-bone-in-my-penis/271324/2 "2004-10-26T22:45:04Z")

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Duplicate post. I’ll ask a mod to kill this one.