Sorsogon man takes a ‘break’ from sex

LEGAZPI CITY - You may play with it, but be careful not to break it.

A 25-year-old jobless man from Sorsogon did it once too often inside his room on Saturday and fractured his erect penis.

Dr. Lauro Verdillo was on duty at the emergency room of the Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital when the patient, whose name and residence he did not disclose, came to him for consultation at 3 p.m. Sunday.

"Dok, pakitingin lang po ang sa akin dahil may problema," the patient asked him. After looking at it, the doctor asked how it happened. The man replied, "Nilalaro ko at binali-bali ko." He added he had been doing it for quite some time.

Verdillo said the sex organ, which was about four to five inches long, was broken at the middle and the tip was pointing toward the left. He immediately ordered a surgery.

Verdillo said he made a one-centimeter cut on the organ where the break was located and closed the torn fasia with three stitches. He prescribed a one-week dose of antibiotic and a drug called Fugeril, which the patient has to take twice a day to prevent erection.

The patient is now confined at the surgical ward of the hospital.

The problem with unattended "penile fracture" is that the person will no longer experience an erection, the doctor said.

He also said that "penile fracture" is a misnomer because there is no bone in a man’s sex organ. He explained that there are two large blood vessels which supply a man’s sex organ with blood responsible for an erection.

"What actually happened (to the patient) was that his buck fasia, a tough tissue covering the blood vessels, was torn," said Verdillo.

Earlier, a man was also hospitalized in Naga City in Camarines Sur for "penile fracture." He was too much in a hurry to make love with his wife.