• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
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    Operator: Hotline.
    Andy: Hi, yes, I’m calling because it’s more than four hours and your ad said to call if it’s been more than four hours.
    Operator: How much of the medicine have you taken, sir?
    Andy: I haven’t taken any, but your ad said that if you’ve had an erection for more than four hours, you call.
    Operator: You’re only supposed to call if you’ve taken the medicine.
    Andy: Okay. I’m sorry. I must not have heard that part.
    Operator: Yes. If you haven’t taken the medicine, you don’t call.
    Andy: Right. I’m sorry. Right. So, there’s nothing you can do? I just don’t wanna–
    Operator: There’s nothing I can do. I’m in Bombay, India.
    Andy: Okay. No, not you personally. I just don’t want–I just don’t want to have an erection anymore.
    Operator: You know, you could have sex.
    Andy: Okay. Yup.
    Operator: That’s one thing people do when they have an erection.
    Andy: Yeah, that’s not an option. I don’t have sex.
    Operator: Okay, well, then you can masturbate.
    Andy: I’d rather not masturbate.
    Operator: If you’d like the erection to go away, you can light a match, blow out the flame and put the hot ember on your wrist. And that will focus the brain elsewhere, and you will lose your erection.
    Andy: Really? That’d work?
    Operator: Take your finger and flick your testicle, and if you do that till it hurts, your erection will go away.
    Andy: Okay, all right. It sounds unpleasant and it is.
    Operator: It is a trick we use in India.
    Andy: Okay, those are all good pieces of advice. I really appreciate it.
    Operator: We appreciate your business–oh, no. We didn’t get your business!
    Andy: No, not this time. I guess I didn’t need you this time. Thank you.

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    I mean, whose life partner hasn’t received $5k from their government to compensate them for distress from their prolonged sexual arousal, right? Right?

    Edit: I have no problem with compensation here.

    What they went through is brutal, and government payout can help them a bit and incentivises the health system not to fuck up this badly in the future.

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      Priapism is extremely painful and extremely distressing. After 30 hours of it, there’s also a very significant chance that he’s got a broken dick.

      If she was left to care for him because the doctors basically said “naw. Not my job,” that would also be extremely distressing

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        there’s also a very significant chance that he’s got a broken dick.

        Unfortunately, it’s not a chance for this dude.

        This caused the young man to suffer from permanent erectile dysfunction and, in addition, loss of sensitivity and strength in his right arm and neuropathic pain in his left leg.

        Dude has decades of decreased quality of life to look forward to because of this, I don’t think the compensation was nearly enough.