Over the last few years penile augmentation has gained a lot of popularity and newspapers, magazines, tabloids and television shows have been discussing more frequently. There have been several new techniques to perform penile augmentation as there has been much advancement in the plastic surgery field. According to surgeons there are at least three thousand men who have undergone penile augmentation surgery so far in the United States and they expect that at least five thousand men will undergo the surgery in the next one year. This was the case in 2005 and now presently there must have been seven to eight thousand men already who have undergone through penile augmentation.
Before performing the penile augmentation surgery the plastic surgeon actually researches the procedure thoroughly sop that the results are the bets possible results. Even experimental; techniques are conducted using moulds before the actual procedure is done. Penile surgery is very delicate and there is no scope to go wrong here. Any mistake could cost the patient very dearly and these are some risks the patient has to take. Doctors however try their best not to go wrong but the bottom line is mistakes are human in nature.
Penile elongation is a technique in the penile augmentation procedure which uses a Y-plasty. Y-pasty has a reputation for creating scars and these scars can only be rectified through a reconstruction. Penile enlargements are also performed using dermal grafts where the fat is harvested and again attached to the penis under the shaft. There are many more techniques in the penile augmentation procedures and these are just a couple mentioned here.
However so far no kind of research ahs been conducted on how the patient felt after the surgery as there have been only a few people over all and due to the inaccessibility of such people there has been no research. There is no counseling after the procedure and there is no study about what happens after the surgery. So how a person feels and the benefits they feel they have, the advantages they have created over others is still a largely unexplored zone. Only if researches are able to study the benefits and the advantages patients feel can they know the results of an augmentation surgery. Soon after the surgery the patients are discharged and that is the end of story. Even these surgeries are known only to the hospital staff and the patient as most of them do not wish to disclose that they have undergone penile augmentation.
Nobody is in aright position to actually campaign for penile augmentations other than the patient because only he knows the benefits and not even the doctor who performed it. But in spite of no feed back available because of its increasing popularity through media penile augmentation surgeries are catching up. As it is many men do feel that their penis is small in spite of having regular penis. Many men are obsessed with bigger sizes and they tend to go for penile augmentation surgeries. Researches are trying to access these patients and study their social, sexual and even medical characteristics after the surgery. But the bigger question in a penile augmentation surgery is how does the doctor judge the correct size when there are so many variations and what level is the patient really satisfied. Even after the surgery is the patient happy with the size or does he still feel inferior. If the patient does feel happy after the surgery then this could mean that it was a mere satisfaction of the ego and this would be viewed under the psychological magnifying glass and not the physiological. It is like these classic patients who run to the doctor with a common cold and say that they are dying and as soon as the doctor turns in some pills, and these pill may even be multivitamins for all you know, the patient starts feeling better. So men who are running to [plastic surgeons for penile augmentations may be suffering from a similar problem and if there is right kind of counseling available they probably may not need a penile augmentation surgery.
In sexual psychology there is a term called inadequate personality and many men who have normal sized penis and feel that they need bigger ones could be suffering with this condition. Even after a sexual intercourse they might feel in adequate and not enjoy it because they feel they have a small penis and it should have been bigger. It becomes the responsibility of the sexologist to educate these people about the size and how they should perceive the size of their penis. Men who feel like this go through a lot of emotional strain and end up putting their partner through the same strain. Many men who feel inadequate become suspicious of their partners and even get into thought patterns where they start suspecting their partner on fidelity grounds because of their own inadequacies.
Nobody knows why and where these doubts about penis sizes started. One possible reason was the popularity of x rated magazines and movies which show artificial sizes of penis and women having unusual faked orgasms in these movies because of these movies. Men and women believe in the abnormal after watching these movies. In reality such big penis may not exist at all but falling prey to these sexual fantasies is easy.
Other surgeries like facial or even breast augmentation have purposes. A lot of women with smaller breasts feel inadequate and go for breast augmentation. A lot of women feel like having a body like a model or a movie actress whom they draw inspiration from. But the same cannot be held true for penis augmentation. The whole reason a person wants to have a penis augmentation surgery is due to psychological pressures and comes from a feeling of inadequacy. And the term adequacy when it comes to penis is very volatile. It has no clear cut definition and varies largely. Given these circumstances the surgery cannot be determined successful or not even after performing it. The results are ambiguous. So how do these people decide what is right for them.
Now sexologists have been conducting researches on all these points. They are asking questions like is it a must to perform this surgery. How do doctors measure the success of these kinds of surgeries and why do they term it as successful? Are there any uniform standards for these surgical procedures? How do they determine the right size? What is the patient’s feedback after the procedure? What about the patient’s sexual life after the penile augmentation? Does the arousal level change? Do they have more orgasms? Does their sexual capacity increase? And so on, there are a few hundreds of questions like these which need to be answered and which arise from the penile augmentation topic.
Any kind of plastic surgery is a money making business except in cases where it is absolutely needed. Most of the plastic surgeries performed in America on a daily basis are because people want to look better even while they are very beautiful. They want it perfect; have perfect lips, perfect breasts, and perfect bodies and so on. The list is endless and arising from these is the wants. So surgeons just encash and offer various procedures like rhinoplasty, better looks, remodeling, liposuction, skin pigmentation do now penile augmentation has joined the band wagon.
This procedure is more common in the western countries and rest of the world has still not caught on too much on to this. They still maintain a conservative approach to such surgeries.
There is a need to set up proper committees and organizations for counseling people who are demanding penile augmentation procedures. It is on the sexologist’s mettle to do this because they are the first people who meet such patients who desire a bigger penis. More research needs to be undertaken to find out what happens after the procedure is conducted and what are the psychological repercussions. Human body is created in a certain way and especially the sexually organs or something internal and they are born with it. There is no research which found out if it is okay to alter nature’s intent and how the body reacts to this alteration.