For the love of God, do not Google Image ‘Fournier’s gangrene.’ Just don’t.
The subject of infamous predator Harvey Weinstein‘s deformed genitalia and missing testicles was raised at his criminal trial. According to reports in Graydon Carter’s Digital News Weekly Airmail, the deformation is the result of a life-threatening bacterial infection known as Fournier’s gangrene.
Fournier’s gangrene can strike middle-aged (or older) men, diabetics, or those otherwise immune-compromised, when bacteria enters through a cut or scratch in the genitals and spreads a synergistic polymicrobial infection through the bloodstream. It has also been linked to excessive masturbation.
From the excellent report, “The Making of a Predator”:
And then there were the hapless assistants who had to procure Harvey’s meds, such as Caverject, for erectile dysfunction. Shortly after Christmas 1999, Harvey Weinstein was medevaced out of St. Barth’s with what the company only ever allowed was a bacterial infection. At the time, Harvey blamed something he ate. But for years after, a tracheotomy scar from the scary, near-death experience was impossible to hide. He had been stricken with Fournier’s gangrene, an acute infection of the genital region that diabetics and middle-aged men are prone to. Some patients need skin grafts to repair the affected area, while extreme cases can require an orchiectomy, the removal of the testicles. Deterioration of sexual function is another common side effect.
“My body has trauma. Vets tell me I have PTSD,” Harvey wrote in his unreleased 2017 public statement, attempting to explain all he’d been through psychically, what lay behind his anger and sex addictions. Through a spokesperson, Harvey said he’s had numerous operations and is “lucky to be alive.”
All of which explains accuser Jessica Mann’s first impression that Harvey was perhaps intersex, lacking testes (also corroborated by actress-model trial witness Lauren Young), and appeared to have scarring as if from burns in his nether region.
“They want to have it both ways. If he has a vagina, then he couldn’t rape her, so it can’t be both stories,” says a spokesperson for Harvey.
A paraplegic with no function from the waist down can get an erection with Caverject. But a peculiarity of this drug is that, once injected directly into the penis, it takes from 5 to 20 minutes to take effect and lasts only about an hour. All of which could account for the incredible dispatch with which Harvey is said to have approached some of the complainant women.
Weinstein is now serving a 23-year sentence for rape.
