Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the phases of sex have served to better understand the penis. Thus, we know that an additional and invisible third part of the penis lies hidden under the skin; therefore, a 6-inch erection would actually be 25 . Or that the penis does not insert into the cervix during sex. It has also allowed us to determine which regions of the brain are activated during the act and how they do it.
For his part, the doctor Geng-Long Hsu carefully studies the penile anatomy of all the corpses that go to the Adventist Hospital in Taiwan. At his Research Center for the Microsurgical Reconstruction of Power, in Taipei, he has intervened and repaired phalluses that have suffered all kinds of accidents, including that of a practitioner of jiu yang shen gong, a martial art that consists of lifting weights with the member.
Help lift it
His surgical treatment of impotence – which has been ruled out by the rest of the urological community – consists of knotting part of the blood vessels in the penis. In Hsu’s opinion, when a man is impotent, it is almost always because the erectile tissue does not expand vigorously enough to compress the arteries responsible for maintaining an erection. “The result is like a flat tire that, instead of losing air, loses blood,” he says. According to his theory, cutting and knotting the dorsal vein would help close the leak.
In any case, the old debate about whether the origin of impotence is physical or mental is still open . In the book The Rise of Viagra , Meika Loe believes that urology has stolen prominence from psychology and that the advent of Viagra, in 1998, seemed to seal the case: it was not a question of the head, but of plumbing. A curious and discreet way to find out if the dysfunction in question is due to psychological problems is to observe the nocturnal behavior of the male member, with devices such as the RigiScan ambulatory stiffness and tumescence evaluation system.
It will be for testicles!
But few proposals are as bizarre as the one tried in the San Quintín prison, back in 1920. Some prisoners volunteered to receive scrotum strip grafts from their colleagues who had just passed through the electric chair or, failing that, from goats, deer and pigs. The prison surgeon Leo Stanley sought to verify the popular theory that a testicular skin graft – the first one carried out in 1910, with an ape as a donor – was the magic cure to improve health, sexual pleasure and sexual pleasure. virility. After a thousand grafts, Stanley published in 1922, in the journal Endocrinology , that his operations had been a success: 49 of 58 asthmatics said they had improved, the same as 3 of 4 diabetics, 3 of 5 epileptics and 12 of 19 impotent. In addition, 32 of 41 claimed to “see better” and 54 of 66 acne sufferers found that their pimples disappeared. What Stanley does not mention is that, in exchange for participating in his program, inmates received money and / or reduced sentences, which perhaps predisposed them to tell the doctor what they wanted to hear.
Given the doubtful therapeutic value of scrotum grafts, we know for a fact that orgasm does. Barry Komisaruk and Beverly Whipple state in The Science of Orgasm that people who climax regularly appear to have less stress and lower rates of cardiovascular disease, endometriosis, and breast and prostate cancers.
This text is part of the article Science enters the bedroom, in number 380 of Muy Interesante (January 2013), written by Ángela Posada-Swafford.
