Posted on 05/23/2014 4:34:18 AM PDT by csvset
Where is Burkina Fiasco?
When the guy checks and finds he just lost his penis behind the couch cushion, he is going to be really embarassed.
Primitvism
You mean "dickless" people?
Nowhere in the United States.
According to the CIA: Muslim 60.5%, Catholic 19%, animist 15.3%, Protestant 4.2%, other 0.6%, none 0.4% (2006 est.)
Keep these guys away from long rides on a bicycle.
Just saying.
Gives new meaning to "reach out and touch someone," doesn't it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_%28medicine%29
Koro is a culture-specific syndrome in which an individual has an overpowering belief that his or her genitals (e.g., penis or female nipples) are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals.
Koro is also known as shrinking penis, and it is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The syndrome occurs worldwide, and mass hysteria of genital-shrinkage anxiety has a history in Africa, Asia, and Europe. In the United States and Europe, the syndrome is commonly known as genital retraction syndrome.
The condition can be diagnosed through psychological assessment along with physical examination to rule out genuine disorders of the genitalia that could be causing true retraction.
Koro.
I’ve lived 56 years and have never heear of Koro.
Koro. THIS is why I’m a Freeper. I learn something new and relevant every day.
I think I’ve mentioned this before. One day I was driving home from work. I was stopped at a red light while the station was playing “Detachable Penis”. And as I was still waiting at the light, what should go trundling through the intersection but...a Snap-on Tools truck.
True story.
Or he might find it on a blanket next to a broken toaster oven...
Koro is well known to doctors who have worked in southern Asia and Africa. (Not to be confused with Kuru, which is the equivalent of human Mad Cow disease, and almost exclusively afflicts cannibals.)
One classical tale of Koro was from an American doctor in China. One of the important men in a town, with a large family, had developed the syndrome, which was so intense that he demanded that family members hold on to his penis while he slept, to prevent it from disappearing. During the day, of course, he clutched on to it with his own hand.
The day before he left the town, the doctor prescribed him a potent sexual stimulant of the time, almost guaranteed to give him a profound erection. The next day, leaving the town, the man’s grateful family came out with a procession carrying baskets of fruits and vegetables, out of gratitude for being relieved of their onerous duty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYwiwbgMusY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4
Detachable penis.
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