A BRITISH man born without a penis says he’s slept with more than 100 women, while somehow managing to keep the truth about his anatomy secret from most of them.
Andrew Wardle, 40, suffers from an extremely rare birth condition called bladder exstrophy, which caused his bladder to grow outside his body.
Doctors were able to fix his bladder, but he never developed a penis.
The Manchester, England-based Wardle is the subject of a one-hour documentary, The Man With No Penis, that follows him as he confesses the truth to old friends, past lovers and even his current, unsuspecting girlfriend.
“I had only told about 20 per cent of them the truth,” Wardle says. “It is difficult to explain to a new girlfriend. Once, I was punched in the face when I told a girl. I guess she felt like I had lied, but it’s not something you can say right away.”
Wardle revealed in the TLC documentary how he managed to keep his condition secret from his lovers.
He told his current girlfriend he had kidney problems.
Wardle met Fedra, 24, who is from Hungary, met at a holiday camp and began chatting online three years ago. They began a long-distance relationship, making it easy to avoid sex. When she later moved in with him, he told her he had a microchip in his kidney to deal with infections, so that she would avoid contact with his nether regions. She accepted their sexless relationship for a year.
His girlfriend found out about his condition from a newspaper
After 40 years of lying, Wardle finally decidedly to come clean about his anatomy not by sitting Fedra down for a serious conversation, but by giving an interview to a tabloid and TV talk show. Not surprisingly, she was shocked and angry when she found out.
He slept with more than 100 women by giving, not receiving
Friends say Wardle was always good at picking up women and had many one-night stands. “I knew my way around a woman’s body, I knew my way around their mind,” he says in the special. “I was very confident in bed of what I could do to them so they wouldn’t come near me and they were finished and I was fine.”
He used drugs to cover up his condition
Besides keeping his sexual encounters all about the ladies, he also abused drugs — ecstasy, amphetamines, LSD — to have an excuse for why he couldn’t perform during one-night stands.
Wardle says he has struggled with depression, substance abuse and at one point even contemplated suicide because of his condition.
It’s going to take two years to get a new penis
The documentary follows Wardle through medical procedures as he seeks to have a fully functioning organ built thanks to recent advancements in gender reconstruction surgery. After meeting with a doctor, he will undergo four painful surgeries over two years to reconstruct him a penis with muscle tissue from his forearm, finally giving him a fully functioning member.
He and his girlfriend are still together
Despite initially refusing to talk to Fedra about his condition even after publicly coming clean and suggesting they break up, Wardle eventually opened up to his girlfriend, and she is standing by him through the surgeries and his road to recovery.