A man with two penises whose revealing question and answer session on social website Reddit proved one of the most popular of all time has published a book detailing his exploits.
The bisexual “Diphallic Dude” as he has chosen to be known, claims to have slept with more than 1000 men and women, and favours his right appendage.
He told Rolling Stone that his online revelation had left people with unanswered questions – hence the book.
“I’ve gotten so many messages from people who need encouragement for one thing or another,” he said. “With so much negativity in the world, the ability to bring something positive to the table is a great feeling.”
He said that he is more aware of his public notoriety these days, having been largely unaware of online culture before his initial foray into answering questions about his penises.
“I’m just now more aware that the guy or girl standing next to me at the grocery store might have seen my penises,” he said.
“It just stuns me almost a year later that people are still reaching out to me. So I thought I should put a book together and use that to answer questions; but also give voice to people who might feel lost in the cracks. Even today bisexual people like myself are given more grief than you’d realize. We’re still ‘confused’ or ‘cowards, too afraid to admit we’re gay.’ Which is a load of crap.”
The man’s memoir is titled Double Header.
The attention he has received has been far from purely positive, and while he can’t imagine a life without Johnson and Johnson, he has struggled with some people’s reactions.
“People are still horribly judgmental about things they don’t understand. They are nasty and hold a lot of resentment towards people and things they feel threatened by,” he said.
Men, even those who identified as straight, were generally more aroused by his anatomical quirk than women, who had a broader range of reactions, he said.
“The most upsetting was a girl I actually dated seriously after I got over all the one-night stands. We’d dated for about three months with just kissing and cuddling. She finally was “ready” and I put it off for about another month. When it came down to it, I told her that I was built different than most guys and she said she didn’t care. I revealed them to her and she definitely cared,” he said.
And though having two penises has made his life difficult at times, these days he wouldn’t have it any other way.
“Having had two penises my entire life, I can’t do anything but imagine what life with only one is like. When I look down at them I think, ‘That’d look really weird if there was only one down there’.”
