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The way I cleared my own misconceptions about sex while, doing MBBS at KEM hospital, Mumbai, formed the basis of how I treated my patients later.
My experience with the quack who promised to “cure” me of masturbation and sleep emission, taught me to think rationally.
If a quack could cheat me despite being a doctor, what about the public?
So I began to apply what I was learning in medical school to my own life and situation. Once I got to know that there are no striated muscles in the penis, I realised that there is no question of penis becoming weak due to masturbation.
If it had striated muscles, then the penis would have been as powerful as your calf. Penis also does not have any bone, so the question of fracturing it too does not arise. It’s made up of corpora cavernosa, something like rubber.
In that way, I began to apply everything I learned to alleviate my own anxiety.
As I did this, it opened my eyes to a tremendous career opportunity.
I could see how patients who came for various sexual difficulties at the hospital were being shunted from one department to the other—from psychiatry to urology, from urology to gynaecology and from gynaecology back to psychiatry, without providing any real help or relief.
I immediately knew sexology would be a good branch to specialise in. It was a virgin territory, which nobody dared to touch at that time. I knew starting out was not going to be easy. But I was ready for the challenge. So after my MBBS I enrolled for a PhD, as there was no MD in sexual medicine.
One of my viva questions was how to address misconceptions and myths about masturbation.
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(In conversation with Sangeeth Sebastian, writer and founder of Vvox, a sextech platform. The biography is a part of an AKADialog initiative to capture the lives of newsmakers.)