here’s no shortage of men looking to lengthen the appearance of their penis with pills, pumps, or even plastic surgery. A teen in Florida, however, had a special problem: He needed to shrink his. The unidentified 17-year-old, who suffered from several bouts of priapism, underwent the “world’s first” penis reduction surgery to be able to grow erections and have sex, according to the case report in the Journal of sexual Medicine.
The Florida teen claims his 7-inch flaccid penis with a 10-inch circumference was left bloated and misshapen after suffering three priapism episodes. His history of sickle cell disease led to recurrent priapism, which caused an aneurysmal morphologic deformity of his penis. In other words, his rugby ball-shaped member was too enlarged and disfigured for him to experience a normal erection and penetrate his partner — it just became firmer.
“His penis had inflated like a balloon,” Dr. Rafael Carrion, an urologist at the University of South Florida, who treated the teen, told the Daily Mail. “It sounds like a man’s dream — a tremendously inflated phallus — but unfortunately although it was a generous length, its girth was just massive, especially around the middle. It looked like an American football.”
The teen had a successful reduction and spent just two days at the hospital. His penis is still “slightly longer and slightly thicker than the average male,” Carrion said, “but now it looks symmetrical, and the patient was very satisfied.” He reportedly now has no trouble having normal erections and experiencing full sensation.
Guys, bigger isn’t always better.