American teenager undergoes world’s first penis reduction surgery

A YOUNG man has successfully undergone surgery to reduce the size of his “American football shaped” penis. Warning: graphic image.

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WHO knew that penis reduction surgery was a thing?

You wouldn’t think there would be much call for it, but an American 17-year-old’s penis was simply too big, measuring an above-average 17.8cm in length but an entirely unmanageable 25.4cm in circumference.

And that was when it was in its flaccid state.

Dr Rafael Carrion, a urologist at the University of South Florida, told Mail Online it was a unique case.

“It sounds like a man’s dream — a tremendously inflated phallus — but unfortunately, although it was a generous length, its girth was just massive, especially around the middle,” he said.

Penis reduction surgery has cropped up in popular culture over the years, notably as a plot line in the TV show Nip/Tuck and as a joke in the movie Waiting for Guffman, but it had not previously been attempted.

Unique problem ... X-rays showing the distorted shape of the young man’s penis. Picture: Journal of Sexual Medicine

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The unnamed youth had requested the operation as his penis had prevented him from playing sport, and penetrative sex had also proved impossible.

The surgery team adapted a technique used to treat Peyronie’s disease, a condition that causes the penis to bend, which Dr Carrion described as being “a bit like having two side tummy-tucks”.

The young man’s penis had been affected by bouts of priapism — a condition that causes painful, unwanted erection.

The penis was not measured after the operation, although Dr Carrion described it as being “generous” in size.

“It’s slightly longer and slightly thicker than the average male, but now it looks symmetrical, and the patient was very satisfied,” he told Mail Online.

The case was subsequently written up in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

“Lord knows there’s a global race on how to make (a penis) longer and thicker in plastic surgery circles, but very little on how to make it smaller,’ Dr Carrion said.