Interesting article about a guy coming forward. He does seem a bit ill-informed about it though, for example he thought "impotent" meant "infertile", and he talks about busting a "vein" but a fracture is usually more than that. Because the description of the injury and because of how they had to do the operation, I think it probably was an actual fracture.

http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=19554

Comedian Slim: 'How I broke my manhood'

By Janelle Oswald 0 Comments

RECOVERED: Danny \'Slim\' Gray

Comedian Slim reveals how he recovered from a penile fracture which nearly ruined his sex life

THE FIRST time I heard Danny 'Slim' Gray's story, I dismissed it as a joke. After all, he is an award-winning comedian, and a penis can't break... can it?

Before attending his one-man show, Slim in Wonderland, at east London's Hackney Empire, I had never heard of a penile fracture. But Gray says what happened to him was no laughing matter.

"Me tings did brock," he exclaims. "This is a warning for all the men who are sexually active!"

Gray describes it as the most painful experience of his life. The former bus driver told The Voice: "I remember the night clearly... Well, who could forget such a day? But I always remember that day because I had to perform at Rudolph Walker’s 70th birthday party at the Hackney Empire the next day, and nobody had a clue about my traumatising experience. I have never been so scared.”

Laughing, he said: “The joke was on me that night, but what could I do? I was so grateful that my manhood was back in working order after the operation that there was no way that I was staying at home nursing my ego. And as the saying goes in showbiz, ‘The show must go on!’”

Gray says he is revealing what happened as a “public health warning, so guys you best listen up good. Without getting too technical, I was having a lovely evening, as you would say, after performing at a gig, and I got a bit too vigorous. I actually pulled out a bit too much, and when I went to go back in, I missed and hit her thigh, and with the weight of me on top I snapped my manhood in half.

“I heard a pop; not a loud pop but a dull pop, like when you cover something with a towel. I just thought it was my girl, and we both looked at each other like to say ‘what’s that noise?’ Then I looked down and saw blood. But when I realised it was coming from me, I jumped up (swearing) and ran straight to the freezer to grab an ice pack, because I could see my penis swelling second by second and I thought it was going to explode.”

Shaking his head, the south Londoner added: “I later learnt that I snapped the vein, which is meant to carry out the blood from my penis, which is why it quadrupled in size. It was the scariest experience ever.

“I knew I had to call an ambulance. So I grab the phone and a male operator answered. I had no time to waste and cut straight through the bull***t, screaming ‘I broke my c**k. The operator was very calm and asked if I was still conscious, to which I yelled, ‘I’m phoning, you aren’t I?’ People can ask some dumb questions sometimes,” the comedian chups, before continuing.

“I was informed that the paramedics were on their way, which seemed like the longest wait in my life, and all I could think about was if the doctors could fix my tool, and kept thinking that I would have to hang up my belt, accepting that I may not be able to get it up again.

“The paramedics finally came and rushed me straight to hospital. For some reason I was hoping that they could fix it there and then... You don’t really want to go into a hospital for that type of thing, you know what I mean? I felt embarrassed,” he said.

When they arrived at King’s College Hospital, in south London, Gray was wheeled straight through into a private room and seen to straight away.

“I was treated by a little Italian woman – I can never forget her,” he said. “You could see she has gone with a brotha, because she was firm. You know how it is – men can act like babies when it comes to sickness. I didn’t want her to touch it, but she said in a stern, serious voice, ‘Listen’. She was very assertive, and she scared me so I thought, ‘I’m going do what I am told’.

“She explained that I would need a catheter, which could be fixed in one of two ways – either through the belly, just underneath the navel, or pushed through the small whole at the tip of your penis – and I immediately opted for the first.”

The comedian, who cites Laurel and Hardy, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, and Jim Davidson as his inspiration, said: “I squeezed-off my lady friend’s hand to the point that her fingers went numb. I was cussing like mad. I was dying to urinate, but I couldn’t because I had broken the urine passage, so even if I tried it would have gone everywhere, as there was no way for me to pass liquid in the normal way

“I was informed that a professor would be coming to see me in the next four hours. The nurse reassured me that if anyone could help me it would be the professor, and I was taken to a ward.

“When the professor came to see me he explained the whole process. I was worried he may have to chop something off. He reassured me that I wouldn’t lose anything. He advised me that they would either make a two-inch incision along the vein underneath the shaft, or they would cut around underneath the skin, and pull it down like a banana. I said ‘No way,’ but he reassured me once again that there was an 80 percent success rate.

“However, he said the downside was that the operation could make me impotent, but to be honest that was not what really concerned me as I thought the op would be doing me a favour, as I already have four kids. What I was concerned about was if I could have sex again.”

After being discharged Gray went straight home, changed his clothes and went to Hackney Empire, “I had a bag strapped onto my leg, but no one knew. I literally had the operation approximately nine hours before hitting the stage.

“I never told anybody, not even my mum. I originally told her that I had a cyst, and I had it removed... Look, this is not the type of thing you telephone your mum and say, ‘Hi Mum, I broke my d**k’. When I finally told her the truth, she just giggled. My dad laughed, and said ‘How you manage to do that, son?’ I did not get much compassion; they all had a good laugh at my expense.

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“It took about six weeks to heal, I had to buy Sudocrem and I could not have sex.”

Asking if he missed love-making, Gray confessed that he attempted to have sex the same evening that his catheter was removed. “I thought I would give everything a try when I got home from the hospital. I felt like a new man. I felt like a champion. I thought, ‘yes!’ I was so elated, I was like a teenager, and I felt like I was given a second chance.”

Still counting his blessings and reflecting on the whole experience, Gray said: “I have learned to take my time! The surgeon told me that a lot of guys who do the dancehall daggering style come in with fractured penises.

“This is something men do not like to talk about, and there are those who have not recovered. I was told that if you don’t recover fully you can opt to have an inflatable tube, which you pump a small valve when you are ready for action.”

Asked what he would have done if the operation had not worked, Gray replied: “Wow, I suppose I could have pretended I was Robocop or something. I don’t know what I would have done. This is a confidence thing. A man’s penis is very important to him, and I am a very physical person who enjoys sex.”

Citing the experience again as the most embarrassing of his 30-something years, Gray warned: “Look bros, keep your strokes shorter! Nice and close! Don’t think it can’t happen to you, because it can…”