UK - One man's plight has caused a small medical sensation in the United Kingdom: he managed to break his penis in such a way never before documented in medical literature.

According to a recent report in the British Medical Journal, this is the first officially recorded case of its kind. The report says the unfortunate patient suffered a three-centimeter-long tear (around 1.2 inches) along the long side of his best part.

This happened when the 40-year-old man "buckled against his partner's perineum" during sex last year. In less formal terms, this means the man used a lot of misdirected force in his "session" and hurt himself quite badly.

As a result, his erection did not immediately recede, as happens with common penile fractures, but rather gradually swelled away. There was also no distinct "pop" sound in the case, as is typical with horizontal fractures.

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According to the report, an MRI was performed at the hospital, revealing that the patient had suffered a vertical tear in the connective tissue sheath on the right erectile tissue along one-third of his penis.

Normally this only happens horizontally, which is called a penile fracture, but the 40-year-old had somehow managed to break his sex organ lengthwise.

According to the reporting researchers, there had never been such a case before in current medical literature, and the MRI images taken will be important for comparison should future cases be encountered by doctors in an emergency room.

Common fractures of the male member can lead to scarring and subsequent visual disfigurement or, at worst, erectile dysfunction. But in such a novel case, the long-term effects of a vertical injury in this area are still completely unclear.

These reasons are why the researchers want to continue monitoring the patient over time to make sure there are no lingering problems, particularly as this is the first case of a vertical penile fracture in the UK, if not in the world.

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The report does end with some promising news for the traumatized patient: six months after his genital accident, the man is now able to have sex normally again, and his erections have "the same quality as before the injury."