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Tag: Implants

  • Penile Implant at Age 28

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    Shannon Larratt

    I thought some people might find this story interesting:

    I was a healthy 28 year old male that substained a penile fracture during sex as a result of my girlfriend coming down on my very erect penis as I slipped out. Painful beyond words.

    After the bruising went away, I had found that I had substained permanent damage to the base of my penis that resulted in firm but unstable erections.

    I chose to have a penile implant surgically put in and I couldn’t be happier. Unlimited erections on demend are a wonderful thing. The pump is on the right side of my scrotum and I have two rods that inflate on either side of my penis.

  • Magnetic Implants hit the media

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    Shannon Larratt

    Since WIRED (whose story I found via boingboing) are talking about magnetic implants (click that link for my own experience with them), I thought I ought to re-mention them since BME has been covering them for the last few years. The article finishes by mentioning that a 70-shor silicone is being planned for future magnets, which I have to strongly disagree with. A thin silicone sheath, even if it’s a bit harder, is simply not going to protect the magnet in the long term and I do not consider it a viable option unfortunately.

    I hope we figure something out so magnets can be implanted for the long term, because they really are a sixth sense (or at least an interface to the sixth), but I don’t believe the solution lies in silicone, and in fact, I think it’s actually in some ways a worse idea because the magnet lasts longer (probably) before it starts to break down, increasing the chances that there will be complications…

    This one here is on Shawn O’Hare (who I’ve mentioned here before), who is experienced enough with a scalpel that I’m sure he can remove his own when the time comes.

  • Traditional Islamic Forearm Implant

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    Shannon Larratt

    The story behind what you’re seeing here — a 2.1 gram 24kt gold nugget implanted in a forearm by Ben in Ottawa at The Ink Spot — is quite interesting.

    The person who got the implant is Islamic, and was in need of a medical procedure that for spiritual reasons was forbidden. Her Mullah suggested that she have a blessed object implanted in her body instead, so this piece of gold was blessed, and she went to Ben asking to have it installed (anywhere would do, so they chose the forearm for ease of maintenance). Interesting intersection of cultures.

    I guess this is a “learn something new every day” day, because while I was aware that blessed gold implants are a part of Buddhist culture (and also, are still done), I had no idea they were a part of Muslim culture, let alone in Canada!

    Anyway, if anyone knows anything else on this subject, please post it in the comment forum!

  • Heart-shaped implant

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    Shannon Larratt

    I do worry about the long term implications of a tall implant on the top of the hand, but I sure do love the way this heart shaped implant on clearvowelsriselikeballoons looks!!! I’m guessing it won’t cause the over-the-top controversy that rained upon the brass kunckles implants.

    Performed by roving mad scientist Howie AKA LunaCobra.

  • Damn, those are big implants!

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    I recently showed you Andyroo‘s awesome blackwork gun tattoo. You may have noticed the picture of him suspending up above (as in the title bar of ModBlog, at least as I write this)… Anyway, I thought I should share that picture at high resolution too so you can check out the implants (and his funny chestpiece — he is, I kid you not, a Christian pirate).

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