I still don’t understand why an artificial sphincter hasn’t been invented.
I saw long ago where erectile disfunction was treated by a pump in the scrotum that would cause erection.
I would rather go to the bathroom this way, than all over myself.
“I still don’t understand why an artificial sphincter hasn’t been invented.”
Because doctors are taught to treat problems by whatever the government says to treat the problem with. They are not allowed to experiment or innovate. They are technicians who follow the government’s procedures. The government has no incentive to update their procedures. Doctors will still be doing the same things fifty years from now even if the rest of the world has moved on.
Having said that, my prostate was treated with heat. It shrank my prostate considerably and made life infinitely easier better. Although the process was invented to treat cancer it is not (or wasn’t at the time) government approved for that use and therefore if you have a cancer diagnosis you can’t be treated this way. (It works because cancer cells outrun their blood/cooling supply, but ordinary cells don’t.) It can be used to improve urine flow, which it is approved for. I asked the doctor if it could be used to treat cancer and he said that’s what he’d use if he had prostate cancer, but he wouldn’t tell anyone he’d done it for that reason.