Originally published via Armageddon Safari:
Sometimes stereotypes hold true.
Case in point: Asian men do indeed, as a rule of thumb, as anyone who has watched Japanese pornography may have noticed, tend to have smaller-than-average packages compared to those of the European persuasion and definitely pitted against the Africans.
(I discuss issues related to the phallus in the context of living in East Asia as an expat extensively in my top-selling memoir, Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile.)
Accordingly, the Asian market is rife with all manner of pills and potions to fortify the manhood — to pump it up, as it were.
(For a spell, in what I would consider not a career highlight, I wrote advertorials for a well-known medical tourism service luring middle-to-upper-middle-class Western women to places like Thailand or Malaysia for a bit of the old nip/tuck. Titjobs and the like are exceptionally cheaper in the Third World, with the added benefit of a tropical vacation thrown into the mix.)
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In Vietnam, for instance, men enjoy adult beverages in which cobras are soaked in rice wine (ruou thuoc) based on the popular belief that it’s a cock tonic.
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Other penis-sculpting options for men well-endowed with cash money present themselves, of course, particularly in medical clinic-laden Bangkok.
Via He Clinic:
“Have you thought of penile enlargement injections and what it can do for your life?
Would you want to be able to increase your size by 30% or more within 60 minutes?…
Penile enlargement by hyaluronic acid injection is a medical technique (without surgery, without scaring) which makes it possible to increase size and length. It also increases the glands and demonstrates its effectiveness on premature ejaculation.
The first works on these techniques were published in the 1920s by Subrini, who was able to length by 3 cm, by disinsertion of the suspensory ligament. In 1990 Ricardo Samitier performs the first fat transplant for enhancement. In 2001, Dr Richard Diacakis, a plastic surgeon in Paris, developed the technique of medical Penile Enhancement by injection of hyaluronic acid.
Dr. Richard Diacakis has taught this technique to medical practitioners at HE CLINIC, Thong-Lo, Bangkok.”
Related: The State of Feminism in Southeast Asia
Of course, not everyone can afford a ritzy Thong Lo Western-trained cock surgeon to work on them in an air-conditioned office.
For members of the working class, there’s a TikTok doctor operating under the pseudonym “Yai Modify” who will fix you up — or would have, as he’s now been apprehended — in the backseat of his Toyota Corolla for a pittance of what one would shell out at an international hospital.
Via Bangkok Post:
“Police arrested a 51-year-old man illegally providing pearling sexual enhancement and penile enlargement services in his car.
Pol Maj Gen Khongkrit Lertsitthisakul, commander of the Consumer Protection Police Division, said on Monday the suspect, Pithaya Moon-in, had advertised his services on TikTok.
Police set up a sting operation and then arrested him in his parked car on Kamphaeng Phet 6 Road in Chatuchak district, Bangkok, on Sunday. There was a plainclothes policeman in the backseat of his car.
Police seized 189 pearling beads in round, cubic, bean, heart, capsule and Chinese bun shapes from his car. He also had medical equipment, anaesthetics and surgical instruments in his car.
Pearling is the insertion of small beads under the skin of the penis to create ridges that boost friction during sex and enhance pleasure for both partners. Doctors warn it can lead to long-term complications including scar tissue, chronic pain and penile dysfunction, in addition to possible infection during insertion.
Pol Maj Gen Khongkrit alleged the suspect admitted he was not a medical professional and had illegally treated patients to generate income.
He charged 1,000 baht per pearling bead, 5,000 baht for circumcision and 10,000 baht for penile enlargement with filler. He offered the service in his car or at his clients’ homes in Bangkok and outside provinces to avoid arrest.”
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Benjamin Bartee, author of Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile (now available in paperback), is an independent Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs.
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