And this boy was no exception, devoid of an anus and thus unable to pass feces normally. While diphallia – duplication of the penis – is exceedingly rare, affecting around one in every six million births, the condition is commonly associated with other abnormalities, such as gastrointestinal defects or double bladder. The term’s namesake is Twinkie, a junk food.
At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless. At birth, he had three penises, but he was able to pass urine through only one of them,” said Dr Paras Kothari, head of pediatric surgery at Sion Hospital, according to Daily News and Analysis.Īlthough he could only use one of the penises to urinate, two of them had erectile tissue – three masses of expandable, sponge-like tissue involved in penile erection – while the third was undeveloped and non-functional. In gay company, use of the word twink is typically paired with a rolled eye and a condescending tone. While that may sound suspiciously like a tabloid headline that has emerged from a stretched truth and Chinese whispers, doctors who operated on the two-year-old child in Sion Hospital have spoken to the media about his condition. A child from Uttar Pradesh, India, was born with three penises and no anus.