Trend Of The Week (6)

These days, it seems, if there is a part of your body you are not happy with there is always someone somewhere who will be only too happy to inject something into it at a price to improve matters. Take the rising trend of what is euphemistically known as “bocox”, fillers injected into the male genitals, primarily to treat erectile dysfunction.

The procedure works by relaxing the muscles in the penile area and allowing for increased blood flow to the area, which allows a patient to obtain and maintain an erection. However the surgery is not without risk, as patients can experience irritation, swelling, priapism (prolonged erection) and infection.

One specialist commented that “there are very few specialist doctors who can perform cosmetic injection procedures on male genitals. It is not a procedure I would ever recommend to a patient, even if you went to a specialist, never mind a back-door pop-up clinic,”

In one particularly horrifying case, a man from the Glasgow area was recently forced to have his penis removed at a hospital in Glasgow after having a ‘vaseline-type substance’ injected into his manhood. A 2015 report in Der Urologe reported on a 43-year-old patient who had injected a petroleum jelly substance himself. The man was described as having “multiple fistulas, paraffinomas and bacterial superinfection” which requied to extensive surgery and penile reconstruction.

Meanwhile The Journal of Sexual Medicine in 2016 cited the case of a 49-year-old man who arrived at an hospital emergency department with skin necrosis after using petroleum injections for numerous years.

You have been warned!