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The Perils and Promises of Penis-Enlargement Surgery | The New Yorker

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One doctor’s Promethean quest to grow the male member is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.

Save this story Save this story They wanted it because they’d just gone through a bad breakup and needed an edge in the volatile dating market; because porn had warped their sense of scale; because they’d been in a car accident, or were looking to fix a curve, or were hoping for a little “software upgrade”; because they were not having a midlife crisis; because they were, “and it was cheaper than a Bugatti Veyron”; because, after five kids, their wife couldn’t feel them anymore; because they’d been molested as a child and still remembered the laughter of the adults in the room; because they co

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