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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: syhprum on 22/11/2017 22:28:28

Title: have there been any reports of penile injuries from milking machines?
Post by: syhprum on 22/11/2017 22:28:28

Reports of injuries caused by vacuum cleaners are quite common but it would seem a milking machine would be less violent

Title: Re: have there been any reports of penile injuries from milking machines?
Post by: RD on 23/11/2017 01:27:22

Poor Herbie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie) ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2000899/Man-admits-having-sex-with-1000-cars.html

Title: Re: have there been any reports of penile injuries from milking machines?
Post by: Bored chemist on 23/11/2017 19:49:16

There was an old NSFW joke to which the punch line was "it's a milking machine, and it doesn't stop till it gets 5 gallons".
There's the issue of availability. Most households have a vacuum cleaner; relatively few have a milking machine.
It's also possible that a milking machine is gentle enough not to cause injury- so there would be no reports.
It's also possible that any injury that arose in this way was reported as having been caused by...
well, lets face it- almost anything else would be less embarrassing to explain to the nurse on  casualty.