With this artificial member he was enabled to deceive his wife
for fifteen months, and was only discovered when; she undressed
him while he was in a state of intoxication. To further the
deception he had told his wife immediately after their marriage
that it was quite indecent for a husband to undress in the
presence of his wife, and therefore she had always retired first
and turned out the light. Partly from fear that his virile power
would be questioned and partly from ignorance, the duration of
actual coitus would approach an hour. When the discovery was
made, his wife hid the instrument with which he had perpetrated a
most successful fraud upon her, and the patient subsequently
attempted coitus by contact with unsuccessful results, although
both parties had incomplete orgasms. Shortly afterward evidences
of mental derangement appeared and the man became the subject of
exalted delusions. His wife, at the time of report, had filed
application for divorce. Haslam reports a case in which loss of
the penis was compensated for by the use of an ivory succedaneum.
Parallel instances of this kind have been recorded by Ammann and
Jonston.
Entire absence of the male sexual apparatus is extremely rare,
but Blondin and Velpeau have reported cases.
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