Word: semirigid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...injuries or other physical causes-and for those whose problem is psychological in origin and is not helped by therapy-two kinds of penile implants are available. In one operation, which takes about an hour, an incision is made in the penis or just behind the scrotum and a semirigid silicone rod is inserted into each of the corpora cavernosa. Another technique is to implant only one rod between the two structures. The most popular device, developed in 1972 by Urologists Michael Small and Hernan. Carrion of the University of Miami School of Medicine, has a somewhat inconvenient result...
Others are not so sure. Psychiatrist Sonja Kramarsky-Binkhorst of Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn interviewed 31 women whose partners had had the semirigid silicone implants; 13 said the couple were not totally satisfied with the result. Among the complaints: the small size and relative flexibility of the penis. In 29 other cases, the men refused to allow interviews with their partners. Kramarsky-Binkhorst also discovered that some men had not told their wives about the surgery and were now sexually active elsewhere. Comments Psychiatrist Domeena Renshaw of Loyola's Sexual Dysfunction Training Clinic outside Chicago: "If there were...