It all started in high school
Everybody has some great "a funny thing happened in high school" stories. But how many do you know of that begin with an article from a medical journal involving a conveyor belt, a scrotum, three yards of "foul-smelling stained gauze" and eight heavy duty staples?

Well, one morning, I got to school, swung by the library and found my best friend at a table with about six other guys gathered around, all either laughing, looking queesy, or both. They'd apparently discovered an article by Dr. William A. Morton, Jr., M.D. from a 1991 issue of Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality. I won't give too much away as it's really worth reading (see below), but suffice it to say that this article some how made about 100 copies of itself and ended up all over the school by lunch time.

About a month ago, while cleaning out his attic, my friend stumbled across a copy of the infamous article which, of course, I demanded a scan of to re-publish here completely without any kind of authorization. Meanwhile, with a little quick Internet research, I discovered that the "popularity" of this article was not an isolated phenomenon. Snopes has verified that the article is not an urban legend AND even contacted the original doctor! So read on and be disgustedly amused...

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