I read this over at the New York Times online but it sounds like a Chinese hoax to me. Attention seeking doctor????However, apparently penile cosmetic surgery is big in China. I read Red China Blues (I forget the author's name from the Globe and Mail)which described how dogs would snap at the excrement from young boys during defication and the boy's penises would be bitten. Sad, very sad... for the boys and the dogs.
What dogs, and what excrement? Don't they have stalls with holes in the ground at least? You'd think the commies'd have a handle on this situation if it was that much of a problem. Hell, there was a supposed rabies outbreak a few months back and they went out and beat thousands of dogs to death in a week. I think their problems go beyond damaged phalluses.
Red China Blues: Jan Wong Review After reading Red China blues, I have a good grasp of the events leading up to the deaths at Tiananmen square as well as the aftereffects. A large quarter of the book focuses on those issues. And then in the last part, she writes about how China's growing middle class will eventually change their country. For the better, we hope. But also in the last several chapters she talks about how the Chinese are very interested in what the West offers. She writes about women who have eye surgery that gives them a fold in their eyelid. She mentions McDonalds and Pizza Hut. But the strangest thing of all is the inclusion of a section concerning Chinese men who want surgery to lengthen their penises. The surgeon got his start with a boy who lost his (removed) to a dog. You see, Chinese children don't wear diapers. They're trained from an early age to squat. Their pants have open crotches. Dogs and pigs sometimes eat feces and there's a chance that a child can get bitten when he or she squats in their open-crotch pants.