Newsflash

A two-part newsflash at that:

1. Email spam makes outrageous promises.
2. Penis enlargement surgery doesn’t work.

Thanks to the incessant spam, it's become the most hyped of all operations but researchers said on Tuesday that most men who have had penis enlargement surgery are not satisfied with the results.

"For patients with psychological concern about the size of the penis -- particularly if it is normal size -- there is little point in offering them surgery because it makes no difference," said Nim Christopher, a urologist at St Peter's Andrology Center in London.

Christopher and his colleagues, who questioned 42 men who had the surgery, found the dissatisfaction rate was very high. Often the men requested another surgical procedure.

"The average increase in length is 1.3 cm (0.5 inches) which isn't very much and the dissatisfaction rate was in excess of 70 percent," said Christopher.

He added that spam e-mails advertising penis enlargement surgery were inaccurate and gave men unrealistic expectations.

The only surprising thing about this article is that there are men who believe spam emails about penis enlargements. Of course, there are also lots of people who vote for George Bush, so I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised by anything indicative of an epidemic of sub-par brain activity.