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Peyronie's Disease
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Also known as: penile curvature · Induratio penis plastica · IPP · penile deviation · penile fibrosis · Peyronie · bent penis · penile hardening · penile curvature
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It begins with a hardening. A palpable nodule or band in the tissue of the penis that does not feel soft but firm — like a scar that has formed where there was no wound. Then comes the curvature — during erection the penis bends to the side, upward or downward, sometimes accompanied by pain, sometimes by the quiet shock of no longer recognising one's own body.
Medicine describes Peyronie's disease as a fibrous change in the connective tissue sheath of the penis — plaque formation that stiffens and deforms the tissue. But the question that goes beyond urology reads: Why does precisely this organ harden? Why does armour form exactly where aliveness, surrender, and vulnerability find their most intimate expression?
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