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Originally Posted by balboajo I have a mild version of a birth defect called hypospadias on my penis. It is defined by the Urethral opening being located not at the top of the penis. In my case it is in the front of the penis at the base of my head. That is called first degree. More severe cases exist when the opening is on the shaft, sometimes way down. In my case it does not present a problem but is just a minor variation. I credit it with giving me an especially long shooting trajectory. Does anyone else here have it? If so is it a problem for you? |
Yes, I was born with this and have had no surgical correction. No problem for me at present, but I
will say
(1) I worry about being fitted for a catheter if I ever need one;
(2) I still get plenty of stares (and even a few questions from bold guys) in locker rooms because I don't look entirely cut or uncut;
(3) some guys are freaked out by dick differences, but luckily not as many as you might think;
(4) when I was born, I had THREE piss holes, two of which closed up, and now my urethra is the third one, about 1.5 inches down the shaft on the underside of it (the ventral side, I believe, if I remember my biology terms correctly);
(5) I really don't like not having a frenulum, but I'm happy my mother (who is a backward-as-hell 1950s-trained nurse in most other ways, including saying several times after I came out at the age of 18 that her nursing school training advocated electroshock "therapy" for homosexuality) decided to leave me my foreskin, even if it was only to ensure that I had enough skin for hypospadias repair later in life; and
(6) more and more boys are being born with hypospadias, most due to genetics and some to so-called "feminizing" substances, which affect developing male fetuses, that are from common environmental toxins (see http://www.hypospadiashelp.fsnet.co....adiasFAQs.html).
See
http://www.heainfo.org/ for an association of men with hypospadias and epispadias,
http://www.isna.org/node/81 for surgical issues and implications, and
http://www.pedisurg.com/PtEduc/Hypospadias.htm for a diagram or two (incidentally, my own urethral site is approximately the second one down form the head, as shown in the diagram).
NCbear