{"id":79922,"date":"2015-01-06T18:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79922"},"modified":"2015-01-06T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:17:29","slug":"living-two-penises-special-unique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79922","title":{"rendered":"Living with two penises is ‘special and unique’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man with two penises has been speaking to Newsbeat about living with the condition.<\/p>\n

Known only as Triple D, the 25-year-old from the east coast of America claims to have had 1,000 sexual partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He suffers from diphallia which is a rare condition where a male is born with two penises.<\/p>\n

According to a report by the BMJ – the global healthcare knowledge provider – one-in-five million males in the world are born this way.<\/p>\n

“My life would never ever be the same again if I allowed my identity to be revealed,” he told Newsbeat. We agreed to keep his identity anonymous.<\/p>\n

He said he doesn’t want to become “a butt of a joke” and a “novelty”.<\/p>\n

“If I wasn’t going to have sex with you then you wouldn’t know I had two [penises]. It’s rare that anyone does know.”<\/p>\n

‘Special and unique’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Growing up Triple D was told he was “special and unique” by his parents.<\/p>\n

He remembers them sitting him down and making it clear: “Don’t play doctor with anyone else, don’t take your pants off in front of other people.”<\/p>\n

He says he managed to keep his condition hidden from friends but when schoolmates found out in high school he went through a hard time.<\/p>\n

“Initially I didn’t want people in school to know because I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings,” he explained.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want others guys to be jealous or feel bad that they didn’t have two. It was never put into my head they might hate me because I had two or they might think I was weird.<\/p>\n

“It didn’t get out until a girl I’d been seeing had been interested in going all the way. I hadn’t thought about it and I was trying to avoid it. It wasn’t until then that I thought she might not be able to handle this – it might freak her.”<\/p>\n

Aged 16, he says he considered having one of his penises removed.<\/p>\n

“Girls were starting to stare at my crotch a lot more – I denied it.<\/p>\n

“I wish my parents would have made it clear to me that people make fun of things that they don’t understand. I’ve always had these, this is my life. When I look down, what I see looks normal to me.”<\/p>\n

Questioned about why he’s willing to talk about his two penises but not willing to reveal his identity he says: “Everywhere I would go, people would know who I was. They would have expectations.”<\/p>\n

Triple D has self-published a book called Double Header: My Life With Two Penises in which he gives a full account of coping with diphallia.<\/p>\n

‘Very much bisexual’<\/strong><\/p>\n

He claims to have had more than 1,000 sexual partners.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to do whatever I wanted to do with whoever I wanted to do it with – whoever would do it with me.<\/p>\n

“It was owning it, it was being me and accepting it and putting them to use. There were situations where people would freak out.”<\/p>\n

Triple D describes himself as “very much bisexual” and has been in polyamorous relationships – sexual or romantic relationships that are not exclusive to one person.<\/p>\n

He says his longest relationship was with a couple.<\/p>\n

Everyday things like buying underwear are an issue – so he tells Newsbeat he doesn’t wear any.<\/p>\n

Both penises are fully functioning, “I can urinate and ejaculate through both at the same time,” he explains.<\/p>\n

“Entering into the porn industry has crossed my mind. I knew people who worked in the sex industry and some of them knew what I had, some had heard what I had.<\/p>\n

“Nobody had seen it. I remember thinking about it but I don’t want to become a novelty. My dignity is priceless.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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