A: So your little man looks like the dogleg on the 14th hole at Pebble Beach, eh? Well, not to worry.
You don’t say why you’ve strayed from the straight and hopefully-not-too-narrow, but the two causes of penile curvature include a disease called Peyronie’s and congenital malformation. According to Dr. John Mulhall, director of sexual medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center in New York City, a curving penis is not at all uncommon.
Urologists usually regard anything more than a 30-degree deviation as being a candidate for intervention, because, Mulhall told me, “then it can start restricting your ability to use multiple positions for intercourse and many men say sex is not spontaneous.”
The treatment for congenital curvature is a surgery called plication. Mulhall explained it to me, but when he did, my testicles crawled into my abdomen. It’s one of those procedures that works fine, and you don’t even have to stay in the hospital overnight — Mulhall called it “straightforward” — but it’s better not to know the details unless you really need it. Let’s just say he used phrases like “deglove the penis” and “pull the skin down.” Basically, a surgeon will “shorten” the longer side of the penis so it matches the other side.
Men hear the word “shorten” Mulhall said, and cringe, but while the penis may appear to be slightly shorter after the procedure, it’s really not.
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