Why would doctors remove extra penises if they are visible? It's obviously a blessing from the Penis Man.
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2024
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From what I understand, they can be easily malformed and potentially cancerous.
It can cause a lot of self-image issues, although I believe the final decision should be left up to the parents at least if not allowing the child to grow until they are 10 years old or so and then taking care of it.
Babies born with atypical genitals are often modified to look more "normal". This tends to have many negative consequences like trauma, scarring, lack of sensation, gender dysphoria, and difficulty peeing, but is still unfortunately prevalent due to systematic intersexism
Put an extra penis in your pubis for the Dick man.
Penises for the Penis Man and foreskins for his throne!
Are you referring to the Night Man?
... but once his penis was dissected, the students discovered two other tiny duplicate penises hidden inside his scrotum.
This feels like a "lifetime of trauma" kind of discovery.
No way, that has to be like hitting the med school lottery. Every individual body is a wonderful unique snowflake and all that, but getting one with three dicks is a great story for the rest of your life.
And you get your name on a paper in a medical journal before graduating.
Anywhere you apply to go will have an entertaining interview process where you know the questions.
Russian ~~dolls~~ dongs
His pants fit like a glove
When he cums, it goes right back to the sender.
Rest in peace you cocky bastard.
... discovered two other tiny duplicate penises hidden inside his scrotum.
where he also stored a couple of lug nuts for the two spares.
Penises are stored in the balls?
Sounds like a right clusterfuck.
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triphallia, was only seen in a human for the very first time in 2020 in a newborn, and is thought to affect one in every 5 to 6 million live births.
diphallia, has been seen in around 100 human cases, and occurs once in every 5.5 million live births.
so these two conditions, one of which is supposed to be more rare, occur with the same frequency?
Yeah, I would guess the combination of mutations necessary to cause either are similarly as likely. But 3 penises hide better due to the location they would grow. 2 penises would generally be side by side, but for 3, the center one is where you would expect, but the extra two are inside the scrotum.
Not much reason to look inside anyones scrotum for extra penises, alive or dead. So there could be a thousand people alive with 3, and none of them will ever know. And even dead, the odds are pretty low anyone will have reason to look.
Rookie numbers. I got four.
They aren't counting the ones you steal from other people.
Dammit!
Why were they dissecting his penis?
According to the article, he donated his body to science
Yea but why are they dissecting his schlong?
Checking for extra wangs I suppose.
Doctors have to get familiar with human anatomy before they start cutting into live patients. I'd rather they took a few practice runs on corpse dong than their first time being when they need to do delicate surgery on the old trouser snake.
Learnin about penises, gota learn somehow
That's how I learned about mine. And when it finally grows back, I'll be able to use it properly.
Having two penises, known as diphallia, has been seen in around 100 human cases, and occurs once in every 5.5 million live births.
OH FUCK ITS REAL‽ THE PROPHECY IS TRUE!
Yes. The pee is stored in the balls
Any smart heads that can tell me how fidning 2 cases of something gives enough of a clue that this might occur as often as 1 in 5-6 million live births?
Populations tend to follow normal distributions. This was first studied by a scientist working for Guinness brewery. He wanted to share his work without revealing his employer, so he published under the pseudonym Student. This is where we get the student's t test.
Anyways, statistics math is complicated but you can make some inferences about prevalence based on a small sample by assuming normal distribution.
I would imagine it's estimated from the type of mutation and the math involved of how common that class of mutation tends to be. Like how many genes have to change randomly and the chances of each one happening on average, multiplied together. The odds could be similar because the same genes are involved and only one of them controls the difference between 2 and 3, and the odds of it being 3 aren't that much more rare, but 3 would be more likely to go undiscovered because the odds of them lining up with the scrotum and being small enough to be completely obscurred externally are significantly higher. So then they are only discovered if there is any reason to look inside the scrotum. Most dead bodies don't get examined, not like on TV. And even if they do, the odds of their being any reason to look inside the scrotum are pretty low.
So there could be just as many people that have had it, but none ever knew.
Yeah, and if diphalia occurs at roughly the same rate (1 in 5.5 million), why is it 50x as common, and why, given the rate, wouldn't there be over a thousand people with the condition alive today?
Most important difference, when there is 2, they appear in a pair side by side, and are generally both visible. When there is three, the middle one is in the place you would expect and the other two tend to grow much smaller and inside the scrotum. Not likely to ever have any reason to look for penises in there. For all you know, you could have it. Assuming you have at least one penis you know of currently, that is. And even if you do have 3, you will likely never know. And even after you die, there is a very low chance anyone will find out. Very few bodies get autopsies or donated to science. And even if you do, there is not much reason to look inside a scrotum either way.
clearly this alone is a good enough reason to promote vahinoplasties.
Maybe they checked 10 - 12 million people to find those 2
You look in a lot of nutsacks.
How small would the extra penises have been?
Like surely you'd feel something at some point?