| One doctor’s Promethean quest to grow the male member is leaving some men desperate and disfigured.  Photograph by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari for The New Yorker A few months after surgery to have a silicone device called a Penuma implanted, Mick wrote to his doctor, “I’m so sorry for another email, but I am freaking out about the fact I have zero sensitivity in my penis!” Mick’s is just one of the harrowing stories of misfortune catalogued by Ava Kofman in a piece from this week’s issue about the increasing popularity of penis-enlargement surgery. “A truck driver whose device dug into his pubic bone told me that he felt like a ‘prisoner in my own body,’ ” Kofman writes. “An executive at an adhesive company, who hid his newly bulging crotch behind a shopping bag when walking the dog, began to have nightmares in which he castrated himself.” Another man said that he was afraid to let his kids sit on his lap, or to get too close to others. “I even felt like a pervert hugging my friends,” he explained. Why, despite the risks, are more and more men pursuing penile augmentation? And why has this kind of surgery, once considered a fringe procedure, been embraced by the field of urology? Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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