Why Burmese Men Are Pumping Their Dicks Full of Coconut Oil

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Have you ever looked at a tub of coconut oil and drunkenly considered injecting some into your dick to make it larger? No? Well this is a thing people do. Specifically this is something people are doing in Burma and Thailand, where my friend Koko encountered the phenomenon in a refugee camp.

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VICE: Hi Koko, you've explained this to me a few times now, and I'm still having trouble getting my head around it. What is happening exactly?
Koko: Basically, Karen men inject their penises and sometimes their testicles with coconut oil, which makes the penis look and feel bigger.

And why do they do this?
I wish it was some complicated cultural thing, but really, it's just because these men have small penises, and they want them to seem bigger.

But there's a catch.
Yes. That's putting it lightly. The "effect" can last anywhere between two and three years. Then things get bad.

Go on...
Oh boy. Well, firstly, the coconut oil solidifies around the penis—the actual penis—so between the skin of the shaft and the organ itself. Then after a few years your penis just stops working. Difficulty peeing, reduction in sensitivity, pain, and no erections, so no sex. Basically, it makes the whole thing pointless. I think shame plays a large part in them delaying medical attention.

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Can you run us through the surgery?
What they do is they use a scalpel to cut around the penis—this is after the local anesthetic—down to the level of the actual organ. Effectively, you're giving a circumcision until you're cutting around the base and basically just pulling a layer of penis off. Then you're trying to tug the coconut oil off, while also whittling at it with a scalpel. It's just a really brutal surgery.

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