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Joking aside, what a rotten bit of genetic luck with which to get saddled. Best of luck, guy.
He's about halfway there:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-michael-get-micropenis-enlargement-surgery
Edit:
58% as of 27 June
55% as of 29 June (I didn't know it could go down)
Wait....penis enlargement surgery EXISTS??? Why don't all men know about this??? Hang on guys, I'm going to find out what the largest penis in history has been.....and then I'm getting TRIPLE that size!!!
It's my understanding that it's more of a last case scenario kind of thing, like, most guys don't want to have surgery on their penis and it can also have complications too.
Yeah, unnecessary surgery around all those nerve endings sounds crazy.
Congratulations on your new 14 inch wang, no feeling.
Yeah... I don't think they can add nerves or whatever tissue your the dick is made out of.... I wouldn't think the end result could be all that functional. Who gives a shit about aesthetics if you can't cum...
They can't add nerves, but they can connect existing ones assuming there's an effective technique for the structure (probably not when you're going for something this....inhuman)
Rumor is that's what happened to Elon's dick. Botched enlargement surgery.
I would say it's probably not worth it just because you will most likely have sensory loss and erectile dysfunction which for most would be worse than the problem its self. Theres more risks as well, but those alone sound like a nope from me.
It exists, but the complications are prohibitive for someone that isn't hit with disability level malformation. Plus, there's a limit to what it can do
The real question is, why isn't this covered by Medicaid?!
/uj some of us are happy with what we got. Also there is a things as too big. I don't want to hurt my partner.
/rj you sure you want 3 Steven Millers on your crotch?
The surgery went a success but as a complication you can no longer get a boner.
For what i recall, from being chronically online:
They go in around your lil guy and release the shaft from everything around it and shift it forwards. It gives you more visibility of what exists but does not actually make anything bigger. Idk about adding anything, because i did not look into it further.
There is a ligament that can be relocated to make a flaccid penis appear larger, but there is no enlargement surgery.
There are implants. Men are getting some gnarly complications like ED, infections.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/penis-implant-lawsuit-penuma/
I just learned about IPPs (Inflatable Penile Implants) and they seem pretty cool if your penis was otherwise non-functional, but as others have said, any surgery on my penis is pretty much a last resort.
Apparently it's only girth they can modify. Not length.
I’ve heard stories from ladies that made my eyes water. Guys they liked and decided to get physical with only to discover they were working with something roughly the size of their own clitoris. It really is an immediate dealbreaker much of the time, and you can’t blame them for wanting a functional sex life. Poor dudes really got worked by chance. I can’t even figure out how evolution has left this a possibility.
Evolution works by minimizing this kind of abnormality, but it never disappears. There’s just too much variance in how our DNA works. That’s a good thing, though, because the environment is not static. Without any variance, we would have died out a long long time ago. We need to adapt to survive in new environmental conditions.
It’s a good point that traits may not be useful now but could be useful later. Perhaps I just lack Imagination but I can’t visualize the change of season that’s going to make micropenis a survival advantage.
Evolution still doesn’t work that way. If it prevents you from reproducing (like this probably would), it will be selected against, meaning it will be extremely rare (like this is), but it will never just go away unless it isn’t compatible with life (eg, missing an X chromosome).
I have trouble processing the word “never” in your statements here because evolution has consigned so much to extinction that I don’t understand why traits can “never” disappear. Can you explain why a phenotype that would prevent you from reproducing can “never” lead to a genotype disappearing entirely? Blocking reproduction seems incompatible with life to me.
Because there are so many humans that someone’s almost definitely gonna have it. If there were like a million people, then we probably wouldn’t see many of these traits, but there are 8 billion people around. That means on average, traits that are one in a million are in 8,000 people. Traits that are one in a billion are still likely to be in a handful of people.
If it’s incompatible with life, no one will have that trait, because no one will be born with it. If it merely prevents you from reproducing, it just won’t be heritable, but the mutations/anomalies will still happen, so people will have them.
I see the general point, it’s just the perforce absolutism of it that I don’t get.
For example, if what you say is true and as long as a large population survives, all its genes necessarily do to, then shouldn’t there be people somewhere in some numbers that exhibit every trait in every one of our evolutionary ancestors? Even in your own examples you only go up to one in a billion, but odds do actually go lower than that.
Sure, but your original question was about evolution getting rid of the genes necessary for a micropenis. That condition is very possible in our gene pool. Yes, there probably aren’t people who grow fins, even though that’s technically possible with enough specific mutations, so sure, evolution will eventually effectively get rid of traits in a species even if they’re not life threatening (though enough mutation for a human to grow fins would probably be deadly), but then your talking about evolution on the scale of millions of years.
Sometimes it's not the thing that gives an advantage, but the thing it's connected to. Perhaps the same same gene that gives them a micropenis also makes them really fit in some other area. It's unlikely, but possible that the genetic mutation makes them immune to some devastating disease in the future. Genetics are complex.
He’s certainly less likely to die from a wild dog biting his prick off.
Sickle cell anemia is kinda like that. Carriers with one copy of the gene get resistance to malaria compared to those without it. People with two copies get the disease and are more vulnerable to Malaria than those without a copy.
It could be useful in a cold climate
Interesting point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen's_rule
I'm pretty sure the physical structure starts developing in utero before the gender is finalized...and then it becomes either a clitoris or a penis. Crossed wires, mebbe?
You’re right - it’s similar to how men have nipples for no reason except that they are formed before sexual dimorphism begins to differentiate a male fetus from females. In defiance of the typical MAGAt’s view that sex is fundamental, essential and entirely binary, it’s more of a vestment that each of our core selves is garbed in. The morphology of tissues being signaled by hormones, you can easily imagine that it gets tuned differently for different people.