Wednesday 20 January 2010

Sex Fact #130

Two penises: The most celebrated of all the penile duplication (diphallic terata) was Jean Baptista dos Santos.



His father and mother were healthy and had two well-formed children. He was easily born after an uneventful pregnancy. He was good-looking, well proportioned, and had two distinct penises, each as large as that of a child of six months. Urination proceeded simultaneously from both penises; he had also two scrotums. Behind and between the legs there was another limb, or rather two, united throughout their length with a single foot containing ten distinct digits. It was connected to the pubis by a short stem 1/2 inch long and as large as the little finger, consisting of separate bones and cartilages. There was a patella in the supernumerary limb on the anal aspect, and a joint freely movable. This compound limb had no power of motion, but was endowed with sensibility.

Accounts of Santos, witten in 1865, when he would have been in his early 20s claim he had 'extraordinary animal passion' and that the 'sight of a female alone is sufficient to excite him'. He was also said to use both penises; when finishing with one continuing with the other. These accounts are believed to be exaggerated.

As well as double genitals, he possibly had a double bladder communicating by an imperfect septum. At adulthood the anus was three inches anterior to the os coceygeus. In the sitting or lying posture the supernumerary limb rested on the front of the inner surface of the lower third of his left thigh. He was in the habit of wearing this limb in a sling, or bound firmly to the right thigh, to prevent its unseemly dangling when erect. The perineum proper was absent, the entire space between the anus and the posterior edge of the scrotum being occupied by the pedicle. Santos' mental and physical functions were developed above normal, and he impressed everybody with his accomplishments.

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  1. Hello, i'm making a study about Santos and trying to find this complete photo. Do you now where I can find it?

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