Is your self-esteem hanging between your legs?
• Sexual Health
Three billion junk emails a day promise to make men's penises taller, ever ready and tougher. Sort of a combination of basketball player, mailman and green beret.
Though one maker of placebo virility describes his product as "yoga for the penis."
[Two doctors who've performed penile-enhancement surgery] said the men who want the operation usually are of average size and think they will feel better about themselves with a longer penis.
"It has to do with self-esteem, self-image," Solomon said. "I think of it as breast augmentation for men."
The downside is that patients have to wear weights for weeks afterward to keep scar tissue from pulling the ligament back. Solomon uses half- to three-pound weights that hang off the penis. About half of Whitehead's patients use five- to eight-pound weights.
Ouch.
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