A Stiff Dose of Truth

I can’t positively recommend reading this excellent article (a collaboration between Pro Publica and The New Yorker). It’s full of excruciating medical detail. But if you’re hardy enough to do so, there’s a lot of food for thought.

A thought: the profit motive in medicine will kill most of us eventually, even destroying those who can afford treatment.

Another: patriarchy imposes a huge burden of sorrow and suffering on men. That’s not the most important reason to be against it, but it’s a reason.

https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants

TEXT: PROPUBLICA
Inside the Secretive World of Penile 
by Ava Kofman; 

How a doctor’s two-decade quest to grow the penis is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.

PHOTO: various phallic objects and an old-timey service-station sign showing a car with wood panelling; the text reads: GET YOUR WOODY SERVICED HERE

About JE

James Enge is the author of the World-Fantasy-Award-nominated novel Blood of Ambrose (Pyr, April 2009). His latest book is The Wide World's End. His short fiction has appeared in Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and elsewhere.
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