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Priapism
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Also known as: prolonged erection · painful erection · pathological erection · priapism · ischemic priapism · erection that won't subside · persistent erection · urological emergency
Your Body Is Speaking
It is not arousal. It is not desire. It is an erection that does not stop — for hours, painful, without any sexual trigger. The body does something that looks like a sign of vitality but feels like a punishment. Blood flows into the penis and finds no way out. What is normally an expression of aliveness becomes a prison.
Medically, priapism is a urological emergency. The tissue can be permanently damaged if the blood pooling is not treated — immediate medical attention is necessary. Viewed psychosomatically, a question lies behind it: What is happening in you when a primal force builds up and finds no way out? When energy that wants to flow reaches a dead end?
Priapism is not a sign of strength. It is the signal of a force that cannot steer itself.
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