A TO Z OF SEXUAL HISTORY: PENIS PANIC

By CAMERON KING

Imagine one day waking up and looking down and realizing your dick has shrunk. Just a little sure, but you can feel it recoiling, turning itself against you, ultimately with the intention of killing you. This is penis panic, and despite what you think you know about it, prepare to have your dick’s mind blown all over again.
Of course, your dink isn’t really disappearing. Penis panic is medically known as genital retraction syndrome – a pathological belief the genitals are shrinking, most common in South East Asia where it is called koro or shook yong. It can occur in any community that believes there is a real penis shrinking disease. Sufferers believe in it with such conviction that they see it happening, break out in sweats, have heart palpitations and tremors. Often, in the hysteria of desperation they tie a weight to the end of it or safety pin it to the inside of their thigh to keep it in place.

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