sex in his life, inserted a two-metre-long piece of nylon string into his penis with the aim of maximising his erection. The unnamed patient in Indonesia inserted the string while being fully erect and watching a pornographic video.
According to a team of researchers in the Asian country, patients who insert objects into their urethra are slow at getting treatment which can lead to serious complications, including recurrent urinary tract infection, stone formation and urosepsis.
The researchers believe that some people insert objects into their penis due to psychiatric issues with the aim of achieving sexual pleasure.
The challenge of dealing with these cases, they wrote, is increased thanks to dishonest patients who hinder proper diagnosis and management by not telling doctors what they had done to themselves.
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