Recently, the international media
were awash with the story of an Italian couple whose genitals got stuck
together during sex in the waters of a Porto San Giorgio beach in Italy.
The duo remained locked until a
woman with a towel came and helped the pair walk to the shore where a medic,
called by beachgoers, brought them to a local hospital before they could be
separated.
Despite the fact that this incident
sounds like a scene from a trashy pornographic comedy, stories of couples
getting stuck during sex are real.
Though it seemed logically
impossible and downright outlandish, a handful of couples have been reported to
have gotten ‘glued together’ during sexual intercourse. Such cases have been
recorded in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Although many couples may experience
problems after sex such as migraines, heart problems and even memory loss, the
penis getting stuck into the vagina during intercourse, especially in the
missionary position, is one that has lived with man for a while. Medically
referred to as penis capitvus, this condition has occurred in a handful of
people over the years.
The Kenyan incident in 2012
supposedly occurred after the husband paid a visit to a witch doctor after
suspecting that his wife was having an affair. The media reported that the
man’s wife and her lover regained their liberty after prayers and after the
lover promised to pay the husband 20,000 Kenyan shillings.
Last year, the Zimbabwean media
reported that a woman was bringing a law case against her long-term boyfriend
for putting “runyoka” on her - a fidelity spell that caused her to get stuck in
her lover. She was said to be demanding compensation from the jealous boyfriend
“for humiliating her and trying to control how she should use her private
part.”
Among the Yoruba of South-Western
Nigeria, it is a belief that by the powers of a supernatural potion, magun, an
adulterous woman can be stuck with her partner during sex after which the man
vomits and dies.
Interestingly, this situation
dates as far back as the 18th century. Dr F. Kräupl Taylor in a review of
medical publications in the British Medical Journal in 1979, indicated that two
cases were published by nineteenth-century German gynaecologists, Scanzoni
(1870) and Hildebrandt (1872). They had personally dealt with this unusual
problem after sex.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
indicated that Scanzoni’s patient was “a completely healthy young woman,
married for six months.” She and her husband had to abstain from sexual
intercourse because her intense vaginal contractions were “most painful to him
and ... did on several occasions end in a spasm ... which sometimes lasted more
than 10 minutes and made it impossible for the couple to separate.”
Hildebrandt’s patient had been
married for about a year. Sexual intercourse with her husband had always been
painless until one particular evening. Hildebrandt reported that just at the
moment when he thought intercourse, which had been quite normal till then, had
come to an end, he suddenly felt that he was held back deep in the vagina,
tightly gripped and imprisoned, while his whole penis was in the vagina.
All attempts at withdrawal failed.
When he forced the attempts, he caused severe pain to himself and his wife.
Bathed in perspiration through agitation, alarm and his failure to free
himself, he was finally forced to resign himself to waiting in patience. He
could not say how many minutes this lasted, his imprisonment seemed endless.
Minutes after, the hindrance vanished and he was free.
In spite of its occasional
occurrence, Dr Augustine Takure, a consultant urologist, University College
Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, stated that penis captivus is commoner in
animals like dogs and stories of its incidence in humans were yet to be
substantiated.
“In my practice as a medical doctor
for 25 years, I have not seen any case of penile captivus; I don’t know if
others have seen anything like that,” he added.
But Dr Takure, citing a reported
case of a couple that had intercourse but could not be separated in the United
State of America, said penile captivus usually might not last up to five
minutes.
“The British Medical Journal
early in the 1980s reported a couple found stuck after sexual intercourse. They
were both taken to the hospital and the woman was given anesthetic drug before
the man was freed. It is a rare condition in men because of the background of
sexual intercourse in man which is totally different from what is in animals,”
he said.
Dr Tahure said penis captivus should
not be confused with Magun. “Magun simply means do not mate. The moment the man
makes an attempt to have sex, he stumbles and then he starts vomiting all sorts
of things. That is the essence of magun, but they do not get stuck together.
That is not the essence of magun,” he added.
However, he said manifestations of
magun are dependent on its constitution. “A form of magun in Ikire, Osun State,
will make the man to suddenly develop a progressive pot belly that is painful.
While working in the area, I attended to a case that I thought was due to an
abdominal obstruction. At the operating theatre, nothing was found. Many of
such men end up dying.”
Dr Takure, however, explained that
penis captivus could have occurred when the penis is within the vagina and
then, the muscles of the vagina clamp down on the penis much more firmly than
usual.
While psychologically, some men may
feel they are “stuck” with their sexual partner, experts suggest that both need
to relax and take the focus off the intercourse and anything sexy. This allows
blood to leave the penis, so that he can withdraw more easily. Her pelvic floor
muscles will also relax so as not to clench the shaft.
Written by
Sade Oguntola for Nigerian Tribune
Why people ‘glue together’ during sex Exposed
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