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Inspired by the debate on the Male Pill fiasco.
A shaped, tubular implant made of nitinol could be the ideal penile implant.
Give Percy a backbone(r), so to speak.
Heat-sensitive nitinol could be inserted into the male urogenital tract after being moulded to a set shape. Activation
to reassume that shape could be effected by the increased temperatures generated by sexual arousal. (Not sure how sensitive nitinol is to minor changes in temperature, but this is merely an engineering question, not particularly relevant to the greater idea).
Perhaps it could be alloyed with a little copper, to add a spermicidal and bactericidal feature to the device?
Needed: A good, nay GREAT, marketing plan, to get this idea up.
Temperature differential looks to be 25°C.
http://www.imagesco...les/nitinol/10.html
14 Nov 02 | An explanation of a NiTinol engine which is beside the point but which indicates the temperature differential required to make NiTinol do its thing and, in this case, for you to do yours. [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Since I was on the subject . . .
http://www.memory-metalle.de
14 Nov 02 | NiTinol spoken here. An interesting site that details the various alloys, behaviours, and activation temperatures. Well, I thought it was interesting, anyway. [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Clinical Trials Illustration
http://bz.pair.com/.../nitinol_thang.html
15 Nov 02 | Yikes. [17Kb image] [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
sorry if this is superfluous - but not been reading the smallprint here
http://www.managing...ices/ch-copiud.html
[po, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
[link]
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I knew you were behind this. All I have to say is, OUCH! It would be less painful and less expensive to just take my pill. |
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Certainly, but you could amortise the cost against the money saved on Viagra. |
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Thanks for the link, [bris]. It looks like you might be able to power a set of "landing lights" off the device too. |
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Before anyone implants a device alloyed in copper into their penis, they may want to consider that it is chemically unstable due to its tendancy to corrode. In the complex environment of the human body, metals and alloys are subject to electrochemical corrosion mechanisms, and bodily fliuds would only act as an electrolyte. Why do you think medicine is in such a rush to engineer actual biological tissues to use in prosthesis? You need to try to come up with an idea that is a little more biocompatible and appropriate for implantation in the human body. I have seen corrosion inside a cadaver...it is not a pretty sight. Any man that wants his privates to corrode, vote "FOR" unabubba. :) I admire you for the effort. |
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and before you say it...IUD"s are plastic. |
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Yeah. But it's a cool visual... |
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What is cool to you may be painful for others. |
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Once you understand him better, [drfowler], you'll understand that he is often joking. |
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I knew that by his first sentence. Just trying to get the good man down. :0 |
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Oooo, bad thought! Passing through scanners or metal detectors might heat the metal sufficiently to cause the dishonourable member to leap to attention. |
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//All I have to say is, OUCH! It would be less painful and less expensive to just take my pill.// Isn't [drfowler] a female? All I have to say is, I'm confused. |
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[drchickener] has mistaken the little bit about copper alloy's spermicidal properties for the idea itself. She doesn't seem to have realised that this is for bringing the dead back to life. |
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And bris finally revealed the autoboner, like someone flexing his biceps. |
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ThHis would truly be an autoboner, shirley? |
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Devices that help erection have already been baked. (check out webmd's sites on penile implants for erection problems) It is the whole idea of the spermicide that has me worried. |
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Half needs to check out my idea on the male pill. I am sure if he is a male he would prefer a pill to peeing metal. Besides, I have handled penises before, and I am fully aware of their sensitivity. Does one have to be a man to know that? |
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Oral therapies are by far more desired than anything involving aneasthetic and a taking a scalpel to the 'little soldier'. |
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As far as I know there are semi-rigid implants available, in addition to injections, Viagra and other oral therapies. None of which involve the potential for an embarassing 'tent' on a hot day... or the inability to make love in snow (?!). |
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I think the marketing could involve a muscular man and a catchline like "Put some mettle in your member". |
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Not sure of the magnetic properties of Nitinol, but I just had a truly, truly horrible thought involving an MRI scanner with a half-Tesla field .......... Nonononononono........... |
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Oh! darling... it's all 'irony'. |
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8/7, 'Magentic properties' is an image we can do without. |
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DF, so have spermicidal devices. It doesn't seem to prevent people inventing more of them. |
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lol, I LOVE THAT. Maybe we can even convince unabubba to do the marketing. I prefer a man that is well read. (wink wink) |
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Thank you for the illustration, [bris]. I feel truly honoured, that this is the first of my ideas you have illustrated... I think. |
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Seeing [bris]'s picture brought tears to my eyes, and this old limerick to my mind. |
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There was a young man from Kent,
Whose dick was so long that it bent.
To save him the trouble
He put it in double
So instead of coming, he went. |
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Jinbish - oral therapies - you crack me up.. |
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I'm surprised it took so long
for someone to read *that*
into it. |
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Whats a crack got to do with
it? |
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//"animal" shapes//
New York City street corners will be much more interesting. + |
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I was worried about having visitors over, and the cat on my lap (warming effect). But I'm sure by the time this hits the market, they'll have all the kinks worked out. |
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I knew a girl who could wrap a guy around her little, hot finger. |
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drfowler: Huh? I thought that the "male pill" idea had to do with birth control. I had no impression that this idea was proposing a solution to the same problem. Therefore, in that context, I inferred from your annotation that you were referring to some other pill and again, given the idea at hand, assumed that you were referring to something like Viagra. The subsequent annotation reinforced that notion. |
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Since I obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about, I'll be removing myself from this conversation now. |
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Oh, come on half...we need your insight. lol
I want to meet the guy farmer john is talking about! |
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Not if you insist on using AOLisms in this place. |
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N@N, I removed your link. This is not really about penile implants. It's about the potential for ribaldry surrounding a metal implant with a shape memory, and the eye-watering thought of such a device becoming a part of your essential equipment. |
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