Is this “faith capital” anything other than a communitarian brand of “bonding” social capital? Should Malaysia not be more concerned with developing social bonds that transcend religious distinction, perhaps based on old fashioned notions like “citizenship”? I’m not sure that adding yet another loosely-defined analytical concept adds much clarity to the picture.
and so it’s left to Muhyiddin & umno to happily smear, tarnish and misrepresent even its even-tempered critics – note the DPM’s sarcasm over the query from someone in “a yellow shirt” at the lecture – while encouraging everyone to overlook and assume the integrity of Malaysia’s elections.
If umno is not scared of democracy, and believes in free and fair elections, and claims to be legitimate in government, why is it opposed to the simple 8-point plan from Bersih2.0 for electoral reforms?
Or is umno just keen for winning ‘elections’ through more cheating – where dead people, illegal migrants and inanimate objects such as police stations can vote?
nevermind the hot-air principles, just feel the brazen hypocrisy…
Vichai N #6, I can understand the frustration against PTP (note also Ji’s recent comments published elsewhere); Chalerm [and Anudit] are certainly a paradox; what they say and what they do are two different matters. some points to keep in mind: 1. There are left and right factions in PTP, with 111 of the best pro-democratic pollies earlier banned by the amaat [for 5 years -until May next year]; these folk coming back would change the face of PTP…
2. current LM are earlier cases from the last regime brought forward through the courts which the GOV has no control over as they are controlled by the amaat network…(who elect thmselves independent of any mass electoral process). 3. I would not entirely blame PTP; they are all we have right now, even though Yingluk has her hands tied behind her back and little wriggle space; every way they turn they are blocked/obstructed…But the thought of PTP making a compact with the regime accountable for the 2010 massacre disgusts me. 4. we should continue to monitor and exert reasonable pressure on PTP with performance deadlines to carry out their electoral mandate. 5. Are the masses ready for radical alternatives if their GOVT fails? (–either fails the masses, or the party is failed by the court/regime -starting with Jatuporn Promphan)…
TrollingforfunAK says: “Never a day you do not hear this ‘fear’ that the Chinese will do better than Malays… but funny part is it always come from the latter group.. until the day you acknowledge that Malaysians should be in power (regardless race) you are nothing but Nazis, Hutus or even territorial ferret”
Are you insinuating that the latter group are Nazis and the former are Jews? If you are, then this is the funniest thing I ever heard. You have ‘Nazis’ sharing power with ‘Jews’ in Malaysia! That’s historic man! (caveat: I’m not anti-semitic though)
From the way you described my description of DAP, I can also speculate that you are a staunch DAP supporter. So don’t ask me to go and ask my bosses. You go and ask your ‘warlords’ and ‘godfathers’ in DAP as described by none other than DAP strongman and Deputy Chief Minister of Penang, Dr. P. Ramasamy.
Furnivall says: “How does this claim sit with the UMNO-orchestrated royal overthrow of the duly elected government in Perak in 2009, by the denial of the then incumbent Mentri Besar of the opportunity that he sought (and to which by ordinary democratic constitutional theory he was entitled) to test his support either on the floor of the State Assembly or via a direct popular vote?”
I think a crash course about how parliamentary democracy works will provide a spot on answer to this question. Don’t forget that Anwar Ibrahim tried to do the same on 16 September 2008 by invoking the practice of parliamentary democracy. But he failed miserably because he couldn’t get any of BN MPs to switch to his side. Should Anwar succeed in his attempt then, will anyone here say that his is “an orchastrated royal overthrow” of a democratic government?
Rueben says: “To return to the point about the legitimacy of the current government. I think it is naive to invoke the history of general elections in Malaysia as a litmus test for legitimacy. Elections alone do not evidence democratic legitimacy”.
I know what you mean. But isn’t competitive election is one of the main pillars of democracy? And if you read Harold Crouch’s “Government and Society in Malaysia” you will find that competitive election is one of the main factors that compelled the Malaysian government to be more democratic compared to its counterparts in most of the Third World.
By the way, Harold was my supervisor when I did my PhD at ANU. And I’m glad that he has always been very objective in his analysis of Malaysian politics – with all its ups and downs. And I expect similar objectivity can be found here!
You said: “It is not apparent to me that the DAP is seeking Chinese political hegemony. And if it were, then this would make it an ethnocratic party, not a democratic party.”
Well, in my earlier comment, I’m just wondering whether DAP, a predominantly Chinese political party, can be regarded as a democratic party since you said “ethnocracy” doesn’t sit easily with democracy. You have provided the answer in your above comment.
And, may I say that if something is not apparent to you, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. Perhaps, you just need to look at it more closely to see what it is. I believe a more objective and deeper scientific inquiry will shed more light to the issue at hand.
“Many believe it is only a matter of time when they will bring PTP down through the courts. ”
Now Jim Taylor is getting melodramatic and he knows this claim is preposterous. With Deputy PM Chalerm Yubamrung leading the charge (‘crusade’ perhaps would not be an inappropriate word) to prosecute and jail LM offenders, and because Chalerm is Thaksin’s right-hand man by default (or left-hand man, does not matter), PTP would the last group that PTP leader Chalerm would connect or fine for a LM misdemeanor.
I wonder why Deputy PM Chalerm Yubamrung is now validating (not that the truth needs revalidation) that Men in Black were responsible for assassinations and terror during last year’s Red rampage? And Chalerm says (he claims he has solid evidence) this MIB were/are Northeastern policemen by day, terrorists by night.
“This is the first stage of the LM process. Hopefully it will not be pursued…”
But there is no statute of limitations on LM, is there? Having your name mentioned in the same sentence as LM is meant to be a life sentence of sleeping beneath the sword of Damocles.
LM charges are routinely levelled years after the ‘crime’ is committed. aren’t they? And the ‘investigations’ are open ended… look at what Chiranuch has been put through… so far. Look what they have lined up for Surachai and Somyos. Everything about LM is a vile burlesque of justice.
“As well, he remains active… ”
That seems to be the best policy, to me, not ‘just’ from the point of view of commitment to principle, but also to keep your name and plight before the public.
If I were ‘invited’ to a Royal Thai Police station for a conversation on LM I would try to make sure that my name appeared with “charged by the Royal Thai Government with lese majeste” after it whenever it did appear. Most right-thinking people would regard it as a badge of honor, an attestation to principled character, at this point.
The problem is that the Royalist Thai ‘elite’ have been able to get ordinary Thais to internalize ‘elite’ values and to feel guilty when persecuted with this vile, purely political charge.
It is now a badge of honor attesting to one’s courage and forthrightness to be charged with lese majeste.
Lese majeste has no majesty at all about it… it brings shame, not to those charged, but to those who level the charge and to all those who contribute to its prosecution.
Perhaps we should make stars with LM emblazoned on them in large, scarlet letters and present those charged with lese majeste with such Stars of Oppression. We could all wear them ourselves to demonstrate solidarity with the LM victims du jour.
“Farang are good at accepting their own people’s ideas but not the ideas of other races or nations.”
What? Races have ideas ? Nations have ideas ? Farang accept their “own people’s ideas” ? All Farang agree and have the same idea? or uncritically accept any idea? Enough said. Every sentence raises dozens of questions. This lack of logic and proper definition of terms can only elicit emotional responses.
But i guess New Mandala does deserve criticism for focusing all the time on the one issue that will get maximal emotional reactions. There are so many areas that lack transparency and critical scrutiny in Thailand. The police, the military, agricultural policy, none of these topics get enough critical attention. You could devote a whole blog to these untransparent areas and you might actually initiate concrete reforms that would do a lot of people good, instead of the one topic that could reduce Thailand to a pile of rubble.
As for the Farang vs. Thai distinction, it only exists because there are laws that effectively prevent a Farang from becoming Thai. A Thai can certainly become a cultural or intellectual Farang or be born a Farang in this sense of the term. But honestly, Farang is a racial term meaning “white” and “Thai” is a legal term denoting nationality. How can you compare them?
In this mass of inchoate verbage there is an emergent hypothesis. Something like, if you are born in Thailand then you are going to be limited in your intellectual advancement.
Refining the hypothesis further: if you are born in Thailand without enough money to study abroad at a place like ANU then you are going to be limited in your intellectual advancement.
Further refinement, if you are born in Thailand without enough money to pay bribes to school officials to get your kid into a good school to get the preparation he or she needs to get into a top flight university like Chula in Thailand, then you are going to be limited in your intellectual advancement.
Going further: if your parents are migrant labourers from Isan in Bangkok, can you get your kids educated for free in even the most basic Bangkok schools? The answer is no from the cases that I am familiar with. These are serious questions that can be given firm measurable answers and could be a springboard for reform.
Real issues about poverty, reform and development. Real double standards. The issues you should be talking about in New Mandala, not bogus strawman issues like attacking the very foundations of the Thai state or fighting double standards applied to the billionaire Thaksin. You guys did get lost it along the way 🙂
I am a Farang and like many Farang teachers I know, I welcome well-reasoned logical disagreement with what I say, but why should I uncritically accept some person’s ideas that they try to pass off as representative of all “Thais”. It would be interesting to uncover the very real underlying psychological state of which this writing is only an outward manifestation or symptom but I doubt if it is uniquely Thai. I bet you could substitute certain words and get a little emotional essay written by an Australian or American about their own country and foreigners 🙂
In fact, [since this was firts written] Surapot has at this stage only been called to report to police on charges of LM (apparently charges were filed by one of PAD’s stage puppets and the son of former Roi Et mayor who has a bad habit of doing this against Thai progressives). This is the first stage of the LM process. Hopefully it will not be pursued, but the sentiments are indeed dangerous and can now result in formal prosecution especially as he has not yet gone to formally “acknowledge” his charge…As well, he remains active and on 10 December joining a small group of anti112’ers from Victory Monument to Raachaaprasong and has not kept quiet.
I always think that acedemic realm is something the establishment wouldn’t (or couldn’t) touch, at least not openly. Now I suspect that the thinking is no longer valid. If the establishment doesn’t care about the acedemic world then maybe its time to brace for the nasty thing to come.
Analysis from the recent UMNO General Assembly are filtering through. This was in the New York Times today, arguing further, that indeed, Christians are now within UMNO’s cross-hair as a strategy to retain power.
On Nov. 29, Ahmad Maslan, a deputy minister from the United Malays National Organization, or UMNO, the dominant party in the governing coalition, asserted that Islam would be “lost” if the opposition gained seats in the next election, according to a report by The Malaysian Insider, a news Web site.
“Say goodbye to Islam, because they are agents of Christianization,” he said, referring to the Democratic Action Party, a member of the opposition alliance.
Many believe it is only a matter of time when they will bring PTP down through the courts.
Ji Ungpakorn was lamenting the lack of activity on the part of the redshirts, due in Ji’s eyes to their leadership having been coopted by the amaat… isn’t it time now for a massive show of support for their elected government by the people themselves, accompanied by their call to implement the plan put forward by the Nitirat? To make sure that the coup of 2006 was the last coup in Thai history?
Surely then their leaders will scurry around to the head of the peoples’ parade if they do so. That seems to be the definition of ‘leadership’.
With the 1997 Constitution reinstated and the clock in the courtroom rolled back to 18 September 2006, the people will be seen to be firmly in control of their government, and then they and their government can, putting one foot in front of the other – in workmanly and workwomanly fashion, readdress and redo the issues that have been illegitimately treated up until now.
Yingluck needs all the support she can muster if she is to stand up to the small, but armed and manifestly ruthless, forces aligned against her… and she clearly does have by far the majority of Thais behind her.
Certainly a lot of Thais worship farangs and the ground they walk on. These Thais feel excessively proud when farangs are brought in as their advisers—the attitude they would not entertain toward Cambodians, Laotians, Malays, or Burmans.
Penile Sclerosing Lipogranulomas and Disfigurement from Use of “1Super Extenze“ among Laotian Immigrants
Authors: Manny, Ted; Pettus, Joseph; Hemal, Ashok; Marks, Malcolm; Mirzazadeh, Majid
Source: The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 8, Number 12, 1 December 2011 , pp. 3505-3510(6)
Subcutaneous penile injection of various oils for penile augmentation has been described among men in Laos. We have now treated three Laotian immigrants with penile disfigurement secondary to sclerosing lipogranulomas, also known as paraffinoma, induced by injection of a mineral oil compound marketed as “1Super Extenze,“ which they purchased in the United States.
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Malaysia losing “faith capital values”
Is this “faith capital” anything other than a communitarian brand of “bonding” social capital? Should Malaysia not be more concerned with developing social bonds that transcend religious distinction, perhaps based on old fashioned notions like “citizenship”? I’m not sure that adding yet another loosely-defined analytical concept adds much clarity to the picture.
Will UMNO give up power?
and so it’s left to Muhyiddin & umno to happily smear, tarnish and misrepresent even its even-tempered critics – note the DPM’s sarcasm over the query from someone in “a yellow shirt” at the lecture – while encouraging everyone to overlook and assume the integrity of Malaysia’s elections.
If umno is not scared of democracy, and believes in free and fair elections, and claims to be legitimate in government, why is it opposed to the simple 8-point plan from Bersih2.0 for electoral reforms?
Or is umno just keen for winning ‘elections’ through more cheating – where dead people, illegal migrants and inanimate objects such as police stations can vote?
nevermind the hot-air principles, just feel the brazen hypocrisy…
Another academic victim of 112
Vichai N #6, I can understand the frustration against PTP (note also Ji’s recent comments published elsewhere); Chalerm [and Anudit] are certainly a paradox; what they say and what they do are two different matters. some points to keep in mind: 1. There are left and right factions in PTP, with 111 of the best pro-democratic pollies earlier banned by the amaat [for 5 years -until May next year]; these folk coming back would change the face of PTP…
2. current LM are earlier cases from the last regime brought forward through the courts which the GOV has no control over as they are controlled by the amaat network…(who elect thmselves independent of any mass electoral process). 3. I would not entirely blame PTP; they are all we have right now, even though Yingluk has her hands tied behind her back and little wriggle space; every way they turn they are blocked/obstructed…But the thought of PTP making a compact with the regime accountable for the 2010 massacre disgusts me. 4. we should continue to monitor and exert reasonable pressure on PTP with performance deadlines to carry out their electoral mandate. 5. Are the masses ready for radical alternatives if their GOVT fails? (–either fails the masses, or the party is failed by the court/regime -starting with Jatuporn Promphan)…
Will UMNO give up power?
TrollingforfunAK says: “Never a day you do not hear this ‘fear’ that the Chinese will do better than Malays… but funny part is it always come from the latter group.. until the day you acknowledge that Malaysians should be in power (regardless race) you are nothing but Nazis, Hutus or even territorial ferret”
Are you insinuating that the latter group are Nazis and the former are Jews? If you are, then this is the funniest thing I ever heard. You have ‘Nazis’ sharing power with ‘Jews’ in Malaysia! That’s historic man! (caveat: I’m not anti-semitic though)
Will UMNO give up power?
Ong Guan Sing,
From the way you described my description of DAP, I can also speculate that you are a staunch DAP supporter. So don’t ask me to go and ask my bosses. You go and ask your ‘warlords’ and ‘godfathers’ in DAP as described by none other than DAP strongman and Deputy Chief Minister of Penang, Dr. P. Ramasamy.
Will UMNO give up power?
Furnivall says: “How does this claim sit with the UMNO-orchestrated royal overthrow of the duly elected government in Perak in 2009, by the denial of the then incumbent Mentri Besar of the opportunity that he sought (and to which by ordinary democratic constitutional theory he was entitled) to test his support either on the floor of the State Assembly or via a direct popular vote?”
I think a crash course about how parliamentary democracy works will provide a spot on answer to this question. Don’t forget that Anwar Ibrahim tried to do the same on 16 September 2008 by invoking the practice of parliamentary democracy. But he failed miserably because he couldn’t get any of BN MPs to switch to his side. Should Anwar succeed in his attempt then, will anyone here say that his is “an orchastrated royal overthrow” of a democratic government?
Will UMNO give up power?
Rueben says: “To return to the point about the legitimacy of the current government. I think it is naive to invoke the history of general elections in Malaysia as a litmus test for legitimacy. Elections alone do not evidence democratic legitimacy”.
I know what you mean. But isn’t competitive election is one of the main pillars of democracy? And if you read Harold Crouch’s “Government and Society in Malaysia” you will find that competitive election is one of the main factors that compelled the Malaysian government to be more democratic compared to its counterparts in most of the Third World.
By the way, Harold was my supervisor when I did my PhD at ANU. And I’m glad that he has always been very objective in his analysis of Malaysian politics – with all its ups and downs. And I expect similar objectivity can be found here!
Will UMNO give up power?
Dear Rueben,
You said: “It is not apparent to me that the DAP is seeking Chinese political hegemony. And if it were, then this would make it an ethnocratic party, not a democratic party.”
Well, in my earlier comment, I’m just wondering whether DAP, a predominantly Chinese political party, can be regarded as a democratic party since you said “ethnocracy” doesn’t sit easily with democracy. You have provided the answer in your above comment.
And, may I say that if something is not apparent to you, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. Perhaps, you just need to look at it more closely to see what it is. I believe a more objective and deeper scientific inquiry will shed more light to the issue at hand.
Thailand’s Fearlessness: Free Akong
Kaptan Jng @ 34
Facebook links blocked. Looks like Big Brother is following the news in Russia and the Middle East…
Another academic victim of 112
“Many believe it is only a matter of time when they will bring PTP down through the courts. ”
Now Jim Taylor is getting melodramatic and he knows this claim is preposterous. With Deputy PM Chalerm Yubamrung leading the charge (‘crusade’ perhaps would not be an inappropriate word) to prosecute and jail LM offenders, and because Chalerm is Thaksin’s right-hand man by default (or left-hand man, does not matter), PTP would the last group that PTP leader Chalerm would connect or fine for a LM misdemeanor.
I wonder why Deputy PM Chalerm Yubamrung is now validating (not that the truth needs revalidation) that Men in Black were responsible for assassinations and terror during last year’s Red rampage? And Chalerm says (he claims he has solid evidence) this MIB were/are Northeastern policemen by day, terrorists by night.
Theories anyone?
Another academic victim of 112
“This is the first stage of the LM process. Hopefully it will not be pursued…”
But there is no statute of limitations on LM, is there? Having your name mentioned in the same sentence as LM is meant to be a life sentence of sleeping beneath the sword of Damocles.
LM charges are routinely levelled years after the ‘crime’ is committed. aren’t they? And the ‘investigations’ are open ended… look at what Chiranuch has been put through… so far. Look what they have lined up for Surachai and Somyos. Everything about LM is a vile burlesque of justice.
“As well, he remains active… ”
That seems to be the best policy, to me, not ‘just’ from the point of view of commitment to principle, but also to keep your name and plight before the public.
If I were ‘invited’ to a Royal Thai Police station for a conversation on LM I would try to make sure that my name appeared with “charged by the Royal Thai Government with lese majeste” after it whenever it did appear. Most right-thinking people would regard it as a badge of honor, an attestation to principled character, at this point.
The problem is that the Royalist Thai ‘elite’ have been able to get ordinary Thais to internalize ‘elite’ values and to feel guilty when persecuted with this vile, purely political charge.
It is now a badge of honor attesting to one’s courage and forthrightness to be charged with lese majeste.
Lese majeste has no majesty at all about it… it brings shame, not to those charged, but to those who level the charge and to all those who contribute to its prosecution.
Perhaps we should make stars with LM emblazoned on them in large, scarlet letters and present those charged with lese majeste with such Stars of Oppression. We could all wear them ourselves to demonstrate solidarity with the LM victims du jour.
New Mandala: cowardly, stupid and lacking in wisdom
“Farang are good at accepting their own people’s ideas but not the ideas of other races or nations.”
What? Races have ideas ? Nations have ideas ? Farang accept their “own people’s ideas” ? All Farang agree and have the same idea? or uncritically accept any idea? Enough said. Every sentence raises dozens of questions. This lack of logic and proper definition of terms can only elicit emotional responses.
But i guess New Mandala does deserve criticism for focusing all the time on the one issue that will get maximal emotional reactions. There are so many areas that lack transparency and critical scrutiny in Thailand. The police, the military, agricultural policy, none of these topics get enough critical attention. You could devote a whole blog to these untransparent areas and you might actually initiate concrete reforms that would do a lot of people good, instead of the one topic that could reduce Thailand to a pile of rubble.
As for the Farang vs. Thai distinction, it only exists because there are laws that effectively prevent a Farang from becoming Thai. A Thai can certainly become a cultural or intellectual Farang or be born a Farang in this sense of the term. But honestly, Farang is a racial term meaning “white” and “Thai” is a legal term denoting nationality. How can you compare them?
In this mass of inchoate verbage there is an emergent hypothesis. Something like, if you are born in Thailand then you are going to be limited in your intellectual advancement.
Refining the hypothesis further: if you are born in Thailand without enough money to study abroad at a place like ANU then you are going to be limited in your intellectual advancement.
Further refinement, if you are born in Thailand without enough money to pay bribes to school officials to get your kid into a good school to get the preparation he or she needs to get into a top flight university like Chula in Thailand, then you are going to be limited in your intellectual advancement.
Going further: if your parents are migrant labourers from Isan in Bangkok, can you get your kids educated for free in even the most basic Bangkok schools? The answer is no from the cases that I am familiar with. These are serious questions that can be given firm measurable answers and could be a springboard for reform.
Real issues about poverty, reform and development. Real double standards. The issues you should be talking about in New Mandala, not bogus strawman issues like attacking the very foundations of the Thai state or fighting double standards applied to the billionaire Thaksin. You guys did get lost it along the way 🙂
I am a Farang and like many Farang teachers I know, I welcome well-reasoned logical disagreement with what I say, but why should I uncritically accept some person’s ideas that they try to pass off as representative of all “Thais”. It would be interesting to uncover the very real underlying psychological state of which this writing is only an outward manifestation or symptom but I doubt if it is uniquely Thai. I bet you could substitute certain words and get a little emotional essay written by an Australian or American about their own country and foreigners 🙂
Another academic victim of 112
In fact, [since this was firts written] Surapot has at this stage only been called to report to police on charges of LM (apparently charges were filed by one of PAD’s stage puppets and the son of former Roi Et mayor who has a bad habit of doing this against Thai progressives). This is the first stage of the LM process. Hopefully it will not be pursued, but the sentiments are indeed dangerous and can now result in formal prosecution especially as he has not yet gone to formally “acknowledge” his charge…As well, he remains active and on 10 December joining a small group of anti112’ers from Victory Monument to Raachaaprasong and has not kept quiet.
Another academic victim of 112
I always think that acedemic realm is something the establishment wouldn’t (or couldn’t) touch, at least not openly. Now I suspect that the thinking is no longer valid. If the establishment doesn’t care about the acedemic world then maybe its time to brace for the nasty thing to come.
The Allah dilemma in Malaysia
Analysis from the recent UMNO General Assembly are filtering through. This was in the New York Times today, arguing further, that indeed, Christians are now within UMNO’s cross-hair as a strategy to retain power.
Another academic victim of 112
Ji Ungpakorn was lamenting the lack of activity on the part of the redshirts, due in Ji’s eyes to their leadership having been coopted by the amaat… isn’t it time now for a massive show of support for their elected government by the people themselves, accompanied by their call to implement the plan put forward by the Nitirat? To make sure that the coup of 2006 was the last coup in Thai history?
Surely then their leaders will scurry around to the head of the peoples’ parade if they do so. That seems to be the definition of ‘leadership’.
With the 1997 Constitution reinstated and the clock in the courtroom rolled back to 18 September 2006, the people will be seen to be firmly in control of their government, and then they and their government can, putting one foot in front of the other – in workmanly and workwomanly fashion, readdress and redo the issues that have been illegitimately treated up until now.
Yingluck needs all the support she can muster if she is to stand up to the small, but armed and manifestly ruthless, forces aligned against her… and she clearly does have by far the majority of Thais behind her.
That fact seems to need demonstration.
New Mandala: cowardly, stupid and lacking in wisdom
Certainly a lot of Thais worship farangs and the ground they walk on. These Thais feel excessively proud when farangs are brought in as their advisers—the attitude they would not entertain toward Cambodians, Laotians, Malays, or Burmans.
Another academic victim of 112
It’s always a problem when a country that declares itself to be Buddhist does in fact practice no Buddhism in its true sense.
New Mandala: cowardly, stupid and lacking in wisdom
“a little education is a dangerous thing” 🙂
Linga bell, linga bell, jingle all the way
More research on subcutaneous penile injection.
Penile Sclerosing Lipogranulomas and Disfigurement from Use of “1Super Extenze“ among Laotian Immigrants
Authors: Manny, Ted; Pettus, Joseph; Hemal, Ashok; Marks, Malcolm; Mirzazadeh, Majid
Source: The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 8, Number 12, 1 December 2011 , pp. 3505-3510(6)
Subcutaneous penile injection of various oils for penile augmentation has been described among men in Laos. We have now treated three Laotian immigrants with penile disfigurement secondary to sclerosing lipogranulomas, also known as paraffinoma, induced by injection of a mineral oil compound marketed as “1Super Extenze,“ which they purchased in the United States.