A recent diachronic survey reports that men who ’ve undergo a penectomy will occasionally get a apparition John Thomas , and it ’s usually not a painful experience . In fact , some men will have phantom erections and illusory interjection . What a silver lining !
Here ’s an excerpt of the abstract of “ Phantom Penis : Historical Dimensions ” by Nicholas J. Wade and Stanley Finger fromThe Journal of the History of the Neurosciences :
The diachronic disc reveals several cases of phantom phallus dating from the previous - eighteenth century and the other - nineteenth century . These pillowcase , recorded by some of the leading medical and surgical design of the era , are of considerable historic and theoretical significance . This is partly because these fantasm were connect with pleasurable sensations , in contrast to the exit of a limb , which for hundred had been associated with dreadful apparition .
The story also delves into the notion of the masturbatory mirage . The eighteenth cenutry surgeon John Hunter take down :
A serjeant of marines who had lost the glans , and the greater body of the penis , upon being require , if he ever felt those sense experience which are queer to the glans , declare , that upon chafe the ending of the stump , it gave him exactly the sensation which clash upon the glans produced , and was followed by an emanation of the seminal fluid .
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