Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/penisgate-erupts-at-olympics-scandal-exposes-risks-of-bulking-your-budge/?comments-page=1#comments
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vegeta@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 210d
Are you a ski jumper, or just glad to see me?
partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 210d
The byline at the bottom of the article jumped out at me:
This is a professional journalist and doctor of microbiology. She has spent many many years in education and practice to reach her level of knowledge and ability. Then some editor says "hey I need 1500 words in a story we want you to write covering dudes injecting their junk for cosmetics and athletic performance enhancement. Can you have it done by Tuesday?". I can just imagine her eyerolling as she accepted the task. Dr. Beth Mole, don't worry. We still respect your credentials and achievements and understand you just have to pay the bills too.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 209d
Or maybe she just thought it was amusing like the rest of us.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 208d
Based on the other things she writes I'm not sure her editor asked. She tends to write pun filled articles about kind of gross and disturbing medical cases in the news. Other writers from the same publication tend to write different and less sensational kinds of science articles so I think there is some choice
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 210d
People are padding? i tape mine back for … uh … aerodynamic purposes
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 210d
The "tuck"
hector@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 210d
Sounds like they could be shaming people that are insulating their dick from the cold of the prematch and could be slandering them for trying to make it look bigger, when in fact they are trying to not have it freeze.
After all, people love a good slander, the more salacious the better, and they don't care if it's true, or disproven in real time, only if people will pretend to believe it.
I am reminded of the skiier in China whose dick froze waiting for a race, remember him?
Hux@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 210d
There is an article to read…
sepi@piefed.social · 9 pts · 210d
Bro my eyes are up here
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 210d
I found a reference to something similar, but he isn’t from China.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/06/sports/olympics-2026-why-finland-skier-remi-lindholm-is-absent-from-winter-games-after-suffering-frozen-penis/
hector@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 210d
Probably the same guy, his dick froze once before the race in China.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 5 pts · 210d
This isn’t about padding. It’s about injections.
hector@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 210d
Yuck. I did not know that was a thing, I did just learned that Elon Musk had a botched penis extension procedure at some point though. Which is why he test tubes it.
Tm12@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 210d
Sounds like gender affirming care to me…
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 209d
Increased surface area for longer flight time seems to be the goal... could a round of estrogen be a performance enhancing drug?
Hux@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 210d
The brand name on the jumper’s skis was made for this article…
BossDj@piefed.social · 3 pts · 210d
I couldn't tell if the article was full of innuendo, it I was just seeing what I wanted to see
PMP@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 210d
Before reading the article I honestly thought this would be about athletes trying to pick up in the village. It was even stupider than I imagined.
nulluser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 210d
The link is to the comments past the end of the article. Just FYI
SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 208d
I always hated sport competitions, but especially all the creepy predatory clothing restrictions
vegeta@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 210d