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

Do articles about medicine go in the Science community? Seemed like the best place for what I thought was a really well written article about this niche subject matter.

… Kevin said that he had undergone five surgeries with Elist, including two upgrades, a revision and a removal, and his penis no longer functioned.

Still, Kevin had always found the surgeon to be caring, if a little preoccupied. “He reminded me of Doctor Franken­stein — the intensity of him wanting this thing to come to life,” Kevin told me. It sounded strange, he acknowledged, but before each operation he’d been filled with excitement. “You just feel relieved that you’re fixing something,” he said.

At an appointment earlier this year, Kevin said, Elist promised to fix him again with a sixth procedure, but one of the surgeon’s assistants discreetly advised against it…

  • Dee@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

    It’s the sorting method I was using, in case anybody else had that issue. If you select “Top Day” it will only include posts from the past day and not continue to list the posts throughout the history in descending chronological order. Just an FYI.