Penile Strangulation : a growing phenomenon

Oh, I love my job sometimes. The latest 'Don't Look' came through on the email.

Sadly, this article has only just been submitted to pre-accept so'll take a while to go through and even be published in preliminary form, so I can't show you it. Case report on penile strangulation. Yep, you heard me. Normally caused by metal rings, rubber bands, the detached ring of a condom, bottles and even hair. Works exactly like it does on any other part of the body when you have too-tight a ring on it for prolonged periods - lack of bloodflow leading to other problems. Like gangrene.

Someone came in with a slight case of grossly swollen penis with actual necrosis and ulcers around the area of the rings. He'd put metal rings around the base of it to help pleasure, couldn't get 'em off and left it so long that it got ridiculous - surgery and antibiotics were required. Author goes on to gleefully report on the general problem of penile strangulation, with worst case scenarios such as amputation and urethral fistulas (that's growths in the peeing tube to those who aren't conversant with medical terminology).

Yes, Modblog users, this can happen to you. Especially if you don't go to the hospital early enough.

And even better? The reference titles.

Penile strangulation by a hard plastic bottle: A case report
Pent ethylene - Terephthalate (PET) Bottles: A new device for autoerotic strangulation of the Penis causing serious injury. : Archives of sexual behavior
Lymph edema due to chronic penile strangulation
Gangrene of the Penis due to strangulation by a metallic ring.
Urethrocutaneous fistula due to a retained ring of condom
Penile strangulation treated with modified string method

And it seems to indicate that bottle autoerotic strangulation is on the rise.....

Nano : was at 1,721 as of midnight last night (first day target is 1,667). Stalled a bit due to scene ending and not having a clue how to start the next one. Here's hoping I can manage what I did last year, which was regularly churning out 2,000 a day or more, which had me at a comfortable margin of 3k above target pretty quickly.

And now I have to go shopping for 15-year old cousin. Apparently she likes Fall Out Boy, so the pink and sparkly period is well and truly *over*.

on bananas

Well, for those of you who weren't sickened by the last set of mental images I gave you* (maybe I can become the new Warren Ellis, only in text form...), I have question re: Dr Who and bananas. Bananas have been a ... thing.... in Dr Who for both of the last two Doctors. full of potassium *and* good for daiquiris. Was it ever thus? (understand that I am a simple, average resident of the UK - I have vague memories of watching Sylvester McCoy as a child because it was on at that time of day, I remember seeing Peter Davison but completely blnked out any memory of Colin Baker, and that's about it until Eccleston came along.)

*I love how they arrive - an email with just the manuscript ID number in the header and 'aaaaaaaaaaargh' as the content. With occasional 'Don't look at this. No, *really*.'

Went into HMV to get voucher for the cousin due to Accessorise completely failing on bags for teenagers unless said teenager is a fashionista like my cousin Rose or a devotee of all things sparkly. Dammit. It caters perfectly for the under-twelves and any girl *over* eighteen who probably has a job. Not anything inbetween.

In the queue, saw headphones, which I've been meaning to get for a while for anywhere that isn't work (I can't have in-ear phones due to the buds being too big, and my other ones live at work due to being big indestructible chunky fuckers that're simply impractical to carry anywhere), grabbed those, and on my way out walked down the sale aisle that had...er... North and South for £11 and Superman Returns (the new one) for £5. And I can't watch either until December. :wails:

Just got back from Carluccio's. Nano!

on superheroes in the DCU

there's this community, dcdailylife, which is a challenge to write fic with you in the DCU. Going about your normal job/life with added superheroes int he background. One girl's written about doing the McDonalds nightshift and the problems of the Flash ordering 20 cheeseburgers. (I've *been there*. In my teens. At Burger King. flashback augh!) One girl about waiting around at the hospital when your mum's undergoing ongoing hospital visits and reading headlines and people wandering on and out of the room.

And I'm just wondering. In the DCU, is the UK ever really used as anything than a passing-through point unless it's the Vertigo end of the 'verse? I... just can't imagine any mainstream DCU characters passing through London unless it's Zatanna.

I mostly read Bat comics when I was a hardcore comics reader, with things like Starman and Green Arrow and the Birds on the side. (me? have a thing for non-powered heroes with big sprawling families? NEVER.) Plus things like Supergirl (Peter David version) and Young Justice. So I never really noticed if there would be UK action, because that kind of comic is seriously, seriously home-city based unless you count one-issue trips to Antarctica. Still keep up on what's vaguely happening through scans_daily, but thassabout it.

So just pondering : is it still like John Constantine quoted in Books of Magic? No superheroes, plenty of weird, and magic and so on, but spandex...well, to quote a certain chain-smoking git called Wisdom, if you wore spandex, you'd probably get laughed at. When Marvel set a bunch of books in the UK in the 80s, it was still heavily magic and weird-based. And gritty and tired at the edges in the way even the crime books like GCPD and 100 Bullets never seem to be.