If that’s not the strangest thing you’ve read today, I’d like to know what is.
From the Telegraph:
Mak Erot developed a family business empire offering penis extensions and cures for other sexual maladies using the power of Muslim prayer and a cocktail of 141 herbs. One of her 40 grandchildren, Haji Saifuloh, 37, explained that the secret was revealed when Mak Erot prayed for 141 days following the death of her mother in the 1940s.
“Her prayer was answered with this gift of sexual healing,” he said. A voice from the spirit world told his grandmother, “You can cure anyone who has a small penis or whose penis has died. You can cure them!”
Her early patients were occupying Japanese soldiers during the Second World War and the first clinic opened in 1945. The enterprise grew as dramatically as Mak Erot claimed her patients did. Now there are several clinics around the country including Haji Saifuloh’s, which he recently moved to a Jakarta hotel to take advantage of the extra parking.
The Telegraph recently visited the ill-lit room in the hotel where he practises his skills. A collection of wooden phalluses which patients can choose between as a model for their own was on display.
“Doctors are amazed with the results of our herbs,” he boasted. “The famous sexologists have given our clinics the thumbs up.”
Mak Erot may have passed away, but as long as man’s age-old quest to put more rocket in his pocket continues, her legacy will live on. Staffed by five of her children and 16 grandchildren, her clinic continues to offer everything from “increased diameter, length, strength, endurance or power” for men to breast enlargements and “tightening” procedures for women.
The price tag is hefty — 700,000 Indonesian rupiah, or about $77 U.S. — but legions of satisfied customers swear by the treatment, which includes a 20-minute “therapeutic massage” of the targeted region (and makes you wonder just what exactly the happy customers are paying for).
2 responses so far ↓
1 renee // Aug 5, 2008 at 12:41 pm
heavens ta betsy !! : P
2 Gen Di Napoli // Nov 10, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hmmm. This is called a rub n’ tug where I come from…
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