Meet the Surgeon Pioneering a Whole New Kind of Implant

An enterprising Los Angeles surgeon has invented a silicone penis implant, which, because we’re sure you have friend who’ll want to know, costs $13,000 can nearly double yo size. GQ goes to LA to grill the good doctor how it works – and a few of his very satisfied customers (and their mostly satisfied wives) how it’s working.

- Amy Wallace

The world's most girth-tastic penis implant is available in three sizes: L, XL and XXL. “Nobody wants a small,” says James Elist, MD, the Beverly Hills urologist who calls his invention the Penuma. “So we don’t have a small, we don’t have a medium. We start from large.”

Nobody wants a small. If there’s one global, irrefutable truth, it’s that all men dream of being enormous – even the ones who are already big. Among the many patients I interviewed for this story were several well-hung gentlemen who’d nonetheless paid Elist $13,000 to slice them open and enhance their penises with a sheath of silicone. Consider the 39-year old accountant from outside LA who had trouble explaining precisely what led him to get his Penuma in 2014. His wife had no complaints. (“He was very well-off,” she told me; his pre-surgery erections were eight inches long.) When I pushed him, repeatedly, about his motivation, he finally stammered, “I don’t know. I think I just wanted it bigger.”

Another guy, a 43-year-old mechanic from Arizona, told me he got an XL Penuma inserted two years ago because “I realized, well, nothing about me is average or normal, and I didn’t want my sexuality to be average or normal any more.” After the surgery, he said, his boners increased from six-and-a-half inches to eight-and-a-half inches, and the Penuma “gave me this crazy amount of stamina. Like, I can go for two hours. And I have more control over my orgasms. I mean, I can be going like a Mack truck and still hold back.”