Penis Caught in Zipper

[Rick]

Penis Caught In Zipper: Thousands Of Men Have Fallen Victim To 'Zip-Related Genital Injury'

 

By Simon McCormack - HuffingtonPost.com - Posted: 03/19/2013

 

 

It could happen when you least expect it. The sharp, unforgiving metal teeth inflicting a pain no man cares to imagine and thousands know all too well.

 

An estimated 17,616 men went to the emergency room for "trouser zip injuries to the genitals" between 2002 and 2010, according to an article published this week in the Journal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Almost all of them had their penises stuck in their zippers, the paper found.

 

The injury befell both men and boys.

 

The Atlantic's Alexis C. Madrigal insists there are other options, like button-fly pants out there for those who wish to avoid this particularly painful and embarrassing emergency.

 

But, for those who are not especially coordinated, spending 45 minutes trying to button up your crotch in a public restroom is not an especially attractive option.

 

There is at least some good news contained in the study, which found that "annual zip-related genital injury incidence remained stable over the study period," so we're likely not in the midst of a penis-trapped-in-zipper epidemic.

 

If you or a loved one should ever find themselves afflicted by this injury, Dr. Steven M. Selbst, professor and vice chair of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, offered his medical advice on PediatricNews.com.

 

"I've done this many times. You want to just pour mineral oil all over the patient's genitalia and the zipper," Selbst said. "Be generous "“ that's the key. This is pretty cheap stuff. Then let the patient sit there for 20 or 30 minutes. Pack him in a room somewhere. When you come back, the foreskin will have simply slipped out of that zipper, although in some cases you may need a cotton swab to help it along a bit."

 

Maybe just don't ever urinate again.

 

[Guest]

some of us may not have a foreskin to be caught in the zipper

[Rick]

Some of us may not have a foreskin to be caught in the zipper

 

Hey Sam!

 

Indeed!! :smirk: I thought of that point, as well, and was considering posting the comment that that is perhaps yet another advantage (heretofore unthought-of) that those who are circumcised have over those who are not. :content:

 

Also, note that the numbers cited in the article are from Britain and span a 9-year period.

 

So, indirectly, this article may also inadvertantly be telling us something about British males and their peculiar urination habits.

 

Rick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[yeah_sure]

some of us may not have a foreskin to be caught in the zipper

Loose shaft skin can get caught as well not just the tip

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

maybe if they left the foreskin retracted after they peed it might not be reached by the zipper

[Rick]

Loose shaft skin can get caught as well, not just the tip.

 

Hey Guy!

 

Most typical circumcised penises tend not to have a lot of loose shaft skin. But if they do happen to have some, it's well behind the head, and much less likely to get caught in a zipper.

 

Rick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

yeah that fiddling with button flies in a public loo isn't a good look. I always have an issue with the highest button, and I'd rather not undo my belt and top button to get to it, thanks!

[le maitre]

...and this is why I wear kilts.

[Wutty3]

I remember my Navy dress blues AKA Cracker Jacks.

13 buttons and a flap...no zipper...It was a bitch if you had to go to the bathroom in a hurry. At least 7 of those buttons had to be undone. :bigshock:

[Guest]

Remember the painful zipper scene in that Ben Stiller movie There's Something about Mary -- and that actor is Jewish.* So this accident can happen of course with or without a foreskin.

 

*Although this appears online: "Stiller was born in New York City. His father, Jerry Stiller, is from a Jewish family that immigrated from Poland and Galicia, in Eastern Europe. His mother, Anne Meara, who is of Irish Catholic background, converted to Reform Judaism after marrying his father. The family celebrated both Hanukkah and Christmas, and Stiller had a Bar Mitzvah. He has said that he is 'half Jewish and half Irish Catholic.' " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stiller)

[RodEnuf]

I remember my Navy dress blues AKA Cracker Jacks.

13 buttons and a flap...no zipper...It was a bitch if you had to go to the bathroom in a hurry. At least 7 of those buttons had to be undone. :bigshock:

Some day I'd like to unbutton a pair of 13 button blues, preferably while they're being worn by a sailor.

 

 

Alan G

[Guest]

I've lederhosen

[redbear52]

This happened to one of my classmates in grade school. Poor bastard got sent to the school nurse for extraction. I don't think he ever lived that down.

[Riftalope]

It's not about foreskin, or size, or -as some on Facebook have jumped to- not having underwear. It's about one second of still focus. You never hear anyone that's hit skin with their fly even slightly say they were paying attention.

 

In one second don't move your feet, draw the fly base away from the body, and hold your hips still.

 

Guys can get off track and still have their meat bouncing around. Then the yank up on the fly as they bounce into contact. Even in boxers we tend to go over the band and not use the fly of our underwear. You pull up the band. If you're rushing you're pulling up the fly while your stuff is still settling -and wham. And don't think it's just a penis problem. I know a fat guy (his words) with two scars on his scrotum. One took stitches.