Penis injuries when masturbating with vacuum cleaners

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Penis injuries during masturbation with vacuum cleaners is a dissertation by urologist Theimuras Michael Alschibaja. The dissertation from 1978, which was accepted by the Technical University of Munich , describes a special form of auto-erotic accidents and has become known through a series of media reports and a book tour.

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Model of the vacuum cleaner

The author examined eight cases from the urological department of the Klinikum rechts der Isar , five cases from the Rosenheim municipal hospital and three cases from the Hamburg-St. General Hospital. Georg , who were found to have injuries to the penis as a result of masturbation using a vacuum cleaner . In all cases in which the device used was known, it was the Kobold model , a hand-held vacuum cleaner from Vorwerk . The patients had each inserted their non- erect penis into the eleven centimeter suction nozzle of the vacuum cleaner in order to be sexually stimulated by the air flow . However, they had come into contact with the device's rotating fan and suffered multiple tear and pinch wounds. The author explains the inability of those affected to recognize the dangers of this masturbation practice with their exclusively low level of education. There is no intentional self- harm .

author

Theimuras Michael Alschibaja (born February 17, 1943 in Paris ) studied medicine at the Universities of Hamburg , Montpellier and TU Munich . He has been a resident urologist in Munich since 1980.

reception

After Vorwerk became aware of the risk of injury through the author's research for his dissertation, among other things, the company changed the design of the Kobold model in the late 1970s so that the injuries described should no longer occur with the devices that have been produced since then.

Because of the unusual topic, the dissertation gained some popularity. In 1985 the Vorwerk company filed an injunction against the Chaos Computer Club , which had taken up the matter on a screen text page under the heading masturbation makes you sick . The lawsuit was withdrawn after the authenticity of the cases described and the dissertation cited as the source had been established. In professional circles, such injuries are jokingly referred to as Kobold's disease .

The dissertation was quoted several times in the press, among other things to make fun of supposedly unrealistic and unrelated doctoral topics.

In 2004 , Charlotte Roche and Christoph Maria Herbst recited the text of the dissertation in the first living room theater in Cologne. They later successfully toured with the reading (also known as the "penis reading"). Charlotte Roche also made some appearances together with Heinz Strunk .

In October 2011 the dissertation was published as an audio book , read by Ulrike Sophie Kapfer .

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  1. ↑ http://www.urologie-stadtzentrum.de/portfolio-item/michael-alschibaja-sen/#tab-id-2
  2. ↑ See p. 59 of the dissertation
  3. ↑ Propeller on the penis . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1986, pp. 66-72 ( online ). and web link (above) to the court process
  4. ^ J. Dörges: [Traumatic partial amputation of a penis - a reconstruction of the circumstances of the accident]. In: Versicherungsmedizin , 57.2005,3, S. 154. PMID 16180541
  5. ↑ Mariela Sartorius: Doctor, summa cum gaudi . In: Focus , February 13, 1995, pp. 162-164. There, however , the title of the dissertation is incorrectly stated as penis injuries when masturbating with the help of a vacuum cleaner .
  6. ↑ Kathrin Kommerell: Catch the hat . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 18, 1996, p. 11
  7. ^ Report on the reading of August 2, 2004
  8. ↑ Bremen currently. In: taz Nord, April 26, 2007; note
  9. ↑ Michael Alschibaja Theimuras, Ulrike Sophie Kapfer: Penis injuries when masturbating with vacuum cleaners . ( Memento of September 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (60 minutes, MP3 download) Edition Audiobook FM; Retrieved September 19, 2013