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Sounding Takes Off, but Injuries (Fork in the Penis!) Are Inevitable

It’s Called Sounding

Dr. Kent Sepkowitz on the rise of sounding—and the (sometimes incredible) injuries that are following.

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The human urethra may seem an unlikely body part to attract much fetishistic attention. It’s just a narrow tube—long in men, short in women—that carries urine from the bladder to the outside world.

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