Starr's masterpiece

“That’s disgusting,” said one woman.

“I think it’s funny,” said another.

What they’re buzzing about is an 8-foot-tall penis carving that stands tall enough to be seen in the backyard of a home.

It wasn’t erected, but instead carved out of a tree in the backyard of a home. Artistic expression? A fertility statue? The homeowner says no to both.

“Just ah kind of practical joke my friends played on me,” said homeowner Adam Starr.

The carving was once a pine tree that Starr needed cut down. He said he asked some friends to help him out, but a mix of alcohol and chainsaws created the above result.

“I came back and they left me a little surprise,” said Starr. “Yeah I came home and it was actually night and they had a light fixed on it shining.”

He planned on cutting the tree down last weekend, but said his house got broken into and forced him to back away from that plan.

The city of Tempe has told him the stump must come down by Wednesday. Starr said it will come down even before that, by this weekend.

He said he’s putting it up on eBay and plans to donate the proceeds to charity.

“If you have nerves enough, I’d like you to take a picture of it and put it on TV so everyone in the Valley can see it,” said a man across the street.

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BNET readers will remember that Pfizer entered a $75 million pact with Auxilium for the development of Xiaflex in December 2008. And while the pair are developing the compound for use to combat Dupuytren’s contracture (where patients’ hands contract into claws), everyone knows that the other potential use Xiaflex has is for Peyronie’s disease, or curvature of the penis from a buildup of fibrous tissue in the shaft. You can see Auxilium has a trial ongoing here, and the drug in question, “AA4500,” is the same as that used in the Xiaflex trials here.

With the drug now heading to market, the question now is how much of the drug’s sales will be for the off-label Peyronie’s indication? I’m betting not much: Even though the drug works in straightening rats’ tails it must still be administered by injection at the site of the organ, and that can cause bruising.

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Dapper Dick creator Noelle McIlwaine (left) with Pirate Hardwood and life-sized prototype (right) Photo: Joe Brown

“Let’s face it, girls like to play dress-up,” says Noelle McIlwaine, who is debuting Dapper Dicks, her first line of cock-couture at this year’s Adult Entertainment Expo. “So if you give us something to play with, and something to laugh about, you’re gonna get laid! I mean it’s a 99-percent chance that it’s gonna happen.”

It all started when her husband came home from work one evening, and he wanted to get it on.

“And I told him the whole ‘I’ll take care of later’ thing. Hey, girls get tired! I’m a mom of five, and I have a full-career (she’s from Bible-Belt Atlanta, and already has made a sale to a pastor’s wife).

McIllwaine’s husband walked away and reappeared — sporting a toilet-paper roll crowned with a little lion head.

He was trying to entice her into bed? With a leonine love muscle?

“He was,” she confirms. “And he scored. And that’s how Dapper Dicks was born.”

“Some guys just need a little more help, you know what I mean?” says McIlwaine, one of many erotica entrepreneurs on the periphery of the AEE exhibit hall. “Our job is to put these outfits together for the guys, so they can entice their wives or girlfriends or others, to get into the whole roleplay thing. Because guys really don’t have anything! They’ve got elephant underwear, and that’s it.”

So McIlwaine came up with a series of appendage apparel: shake hands with Stroker the Cowboy, Pirate Hardwood, pinstriped Dapper Dick, Private Willy (“sports his fatigues standing at full attention waiting for orders”), Fireman Rick and Dr. Dick Longellow. Complete with hats and appropriate accessories, they’ll run you $35-$45.

“What about sizing?,” I hear the reader wonder.

“One size fits all,” says McIlwaine. “I made sure there was a Spandex interior, that way it’s really smooth going on and off, because some guys are really sensitive.”

So it fits the all-American, and it also expands to Man-O’-Beef.

Still, there’s always gonna be that one guy who insists the genital get-up is too small for him…

McIlwaine says she’s sitting on 200 more ideas for future costumes. Coming soon: “Animal Kingdom,” “Tasty Snacks,” and a “Hollywood Boneyard” series, with Captain Prickhard and Dark Invader. Imagine what she could do with “Twilight.” Or “Avatar.” Or “Titanic”…

“Relationships need to sparked and spontaneity needs to be kept going,” McIlwaine says. “I figure if I can add one marriage by adding the spark back into it, I’ve done my job.”

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What happened to my willie?

In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team said, “Various reconstructive procedures have been attempted to restore a cosmetically acceptable phallus that would allow normal reproductive, sexual, and urinary function in patients requiring penile reconstruction. However, these procedures are limited by a shortage of native penile tissue. We previously demonstrated that a short segment of the penile corporal body can be replaced using naturally derived collagen matrices with autologous cells. In the current study, we examined the feasibility of engineering the entire pendular penile corporal bodies in a rabbit model. Neocorpora were engineered from cavernosal collagen matrices seeded with autologous cells using a multistep static/dynamic procedure, and these were implanted to replace the excised corpora. The bioengineered corpora demonstrated structural and functional parameters similar to native tissue and male rabbits receiving the bilateral implants were able to successfully impregnate females. This study demonstrates that neocorpora can be engineered for total pendular penile corporal body replacement. This technology has considerable potential for patients requiring penile reconstruction.”

The new penises responded normally to electrical and chemical stimuli, and — more importantly — to biological imperative. When given the chance to have sex, eight were able to ejaculate, and four became fathers.

Indeed, they became more aroused than the rest. “Most control rabbits did not attempt copulation after introduction to their female partners,” said the researchers. “All rabbits with bioengineered neocorpora attempted copulation within one minute of introduction.”

Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest University’s Institute of Regenerative Medicine, who led the team, is best known for developing a technique in which cells are taken from an organ and sprayed onto a frame made of collagen, the primary structural protein in animal tissue. The structure is then bathed with growth-stimulating compounds and kept in an oven that duplicates the body’s temperature and chemical composition, Brandon Keim wrote on the Wired.

Atala’s group has already implanted lab-grown bladders, grown from the patients’ own tissue, in seven men.

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The Metro reports that the unidentified man, 40, showed up at Southampton General Hospital in the UK where doctors were unable to remove the pipe. So they called the Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service who safely cut the pipe off using a grinder in what a spokesman said was a “delicate operation.”

Hospital staff said the man never explained how the accident happened. The fire and rescue spokesman told the Metro, “It’s certainly an unusual call-out, and I’m sure the man won’t be getting into that situation again.”

Last August a man was killed after his wife allegedly set his genitals on fire.

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Yes... and No

Another robber was shot dead on the scene.

The injured robber had hidden the firearm in the front of his trousers. When he removed the weapon, a shot went off by accident, hitting him in the groin.

According to an informed source at the scene, this robber’s injury was so severe that doctors would not have been able to re-attach his penis.
Collette Weilbach, police spokesperson, said the family’s domestic worker raised the alarm on Friday evening at 20:00 when she noticed two suspicious men in the yard.

The family wishes to remain anonymous.

According to Weilbach, the family had 12 guests at the time, which included adults and children.

“The robbers ransacked the house, threatening to shoot the people one by one.”

At that stage, she said, the family’s 35-year-old son arrived at the house along with security guards.

“The son fired two shots at a man who was aiming a firearm at his father. The robber was hit in the head and died at the scene.”

The other two robbers fled. Family members who were rushing to the scene from Montana managed to capture one of the robbers near the house and load him into a vehicle.

It was then that the robber shot himself as the firearm went off accidentally.

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Now he is suing Trazodone’s manufacturer, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Walmart for dispensing the drug without warning him of the risk of priapism (erections lasting more than four hours). Leonard is seeking $17.5 million in damages. It is estimated that the priapism occurs in 1 of 6,000 men who take trazodone.

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So many things wrong with this explanation... so many

The incident occurred at 5420 Juliet Blvd. in Naples.

According to a Collier County Sheriff’s Office report:

David Todd Napodano, 42, told investigators he was found naked in his van because he had “explosive diarrhea” and was using his underwear to clean himself.

The victims told investigators they were looking for their vehicle in the parking lot when they saw Napodano naked in his van and exposing himself to them.

The underwear in question was located with stains, but the responding deputy determined the stains weren’t consistent with explosive diarrhea.

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