Recommended Reading/Viewing

General-interest books

My Brother, My Son John Commins ISMBooks, 2004; 161 pages.	Description (by the author): My son Dominic was born in Melbourne with a peno-scrotal hypospadias condition in 1959 and had countless operations but remained unhappy with himself all his life. So much so that he eventually committed suicide. I have just written a book entitled My Brother, My Son detailing the suffering he endured in life. It is a heartfelt story that I really think is worth reading.

From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children--From Infancy to Middle School Debra W. Haffner New Market Press, 2004; 256 pages.	Recommended by social worker Barbara Neilson, MSW as an excellent resource to help parents talk to their children about sexual issues. (read more)

Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens, From Middle School to College Debra W. Haffner New Market Press, 2001; 256 pages.	Recommended by social worker Barbara Neilson, MSW as an excellent resource to help parents talk to their children about sexual issues. (read more)

Easy for You to Say: Q & As for Teens Living With Chronic Illness or Disability Miriam Kaufman M.D. Key Porter Books, 1995; 292 pages.	Book is written to a teenage audience and includes information that teens might be too embarrassed to ask about otherwise. (read more)

Medical texts and dissertations

Hypospadias and Genital Development (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology) Laurence S. Baskin Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004; 400 pages.	Medical text on hypospadias. (read more)

Hypospadias Surgery : An Illustrated Guide Ahmed T. Hadidi and A.F. Azmy Springer, 2003; 376 pages.	Illustrated with color diagrams and photographs. (read more)

The Psychological Implications of Hypospadias NEW! Dominique Salm Louvain-La-Neuve University, 2003	Read full text online! (English or French)

Hypospadias Doctoral Dissertation NEW! Sharon Kay May American Academy of Clinical Sexologists Maimonides University, 2003	Read full text online! (Chapters 1-3, approx. 1 MB) (Chapters 4-6, approx. 2 MB)

Movies in which a character happens to have HS/ES

100 Girls

Teen romantic comedy in which one of the characters (Rod) has hypospadias, which his roommate accidentally discovers. A short (1-2 min) discussion and explanation follows. Negative reaction by a girl to Rod's hypospadias is presented as the reason for his misogynistic behavior. (read more)

Flirting With Disaster

One of the secondary characters (Tony) mentions that he was not circumcised until 1 year old because he was born with hypospadias, but hypospadias is incorrectly described as curvature of the penis. (read more)