
The age of resent
It just breaks my heart seeing the increasing number of men who come
into my treatment rooms with small penises.
Of the 2523 patients I handled during the year just past and a further
212 e-mail responses logged onto this very site a sobering 73 percent
involved patients concerned over the size of their penis, and of those,
97 percent were men.
To make matters worse, their palpable shame over the size of their manhoods
meant that of their number, 32 percent were anxious to try various mechanical
aids such as pump implants, a further 44 percent were prepared to have their
bodies pumped full of dangerous chemicals and hormone supplements to achieve
larger erections, and, most sadly of all, an additional 62 percent
or 1.34 out of every 1 patient handled would submit themselves to
dangerous and barely proven surgical procedures to offset what they perceived
as nature's short-changing of their physical attributes.
All this, mind, despite my best assurances as an impartial professional
that there was at least a 75 percent chance that any of these so-called
solutions would have only a 50 percent chance of success.
The saddest thing of all, of course, is that none of these men about
as close to 0 percent as one can get, statistically needed any treatment
at all because a thorough and minute examination of their genitals revealed
they were all perfectly normal in terms of girth, length, speed of erection
upon stimulus and tumescent longevity, and were all clearly within the 5
percent margin of error for such statistics.
So while there was absolutely nothing wrong physically with any of these
men and, quite frankly, what they had satisfied the most demanding
of sexual partners they do indeed have a problem and sadly
it's all in their mind.
So what has caused this upsurge in the feelings of inadequacy among the
world's men?
Why has it reached the stage where I am almost reluctant to go to my surgery
for fear of having the problems of disillusioned and shattered men thrust
down my throat day in and day out?
And, most importantly, and paradoxically, why are these men's partners becoming
so short with them?
World-wide research by almost all leading sex researchers shows that over
the past decades, there has been a 72 percent drop in the number of men
who don't like to give their partners oral sex to help them achieve orgasm
- almost inversely proportional, by the way, to a 71 percent rise on the
incidence of male halitosis.
Yet at the same time, more women than ever (34 percent more in fact)
are not satisfied with what is taking place in the boudoir.
Expectations raised in women's magazines? The feats of over-sized freaks
in porn videos, perhaps, seeing that 73 percent of all such videos are bought
by women? Or has the age of man simply past its use-by date?
Whatever the reasons, I theorised in a recent paper delivered to the Fifth
International Sexual Disabilities Congress in Copenhagen that although 95
percent of men are really trying their best as sex partners, there's only
a 42 percent chance as we enter the new millennium that less than 5 percent
of the poor pricks will measure up.