A man snapped his penis in three places after it buckled against his partner while having sex

The 36-year-old, from Tanzania, showed up at hospital with a painful, swollen and bloody member a few hours after his eye-watering injury.

He heard a loud 'snap' after his penis hit his partner's perineum — the skin between the vagina and anus — at 'very high' impact.

Scans showed the unnamed man, whose gruesome injury was shared in a medical journal, had fractured three different parts of his penis.

Medics operated on him to patch up the 'extremely rare urological emergency' and he fully recovered.

Doctors found that his penis was at an odd angle and was in a swollen shape that made it look like an eggplant.

He was diagnosed with a penile fracture after tearing a sponge-like erectile tissue called corpora cavernosa.

Blood flows into corpora cavernosa that runs along the penis and makes it hard during an erection.

Detailing the tale in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, doctors said the patient attended hospital with a swollen penis.

He complained that it was painful and that he had been bleeding from his urethra — the tube that expels urine and semen from the body — for five hours.

His penis 'slipped out, lost the way and hit the female perineal area as he was trying to re-insert it', the medics wrote.

He quickly lost his erection and was in agony.

The patient took himself to a nearby health centre, where he was given painkillers and referred to Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre.

Urologists at the hospital, led by Dr Bartholomeo Nicholaus Ngowi said that his penis was 'a bit twisted', had ballooned and was covered in blood. But the rest of his genitalia appeared normal.

The anatomy of an erection is based around two spongy tubes which fill up with blood and harden, called the corpora carvenosa, and a firm, fibrous sheath which surrounds them, called the tunica albuginea.

An ultrasound scan revealed he had broken a blood vessel in the corpora cavernosa.

And an MRI showed a tear from left to right through the tunica albuginea, corpora carvenosa and corpus spongiosum, which is erectile tissue. The scan also showed that there was a partial tear through the urethra and swelling.

Despite there being no bones in the penis, these injuries are still known as a penis 'fracture'.

The patient was rushed into emergency surgery, where a urologist repaired the fracture by 'degloving' the penis and stitching up both corpora cavernosum and the urethra and corpus spongiosum.

The man was discharged three days later.

At a six-month check-up, the man reported that his sex life had resumed without difficulties and his penis had returned to normal.

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