Can men mend their broken self-esteem with a thicker penis? This documentary about the patients of a Dallas clinic offering PhalloFill® treatment suggests there might be something deeper here
In Bill Moore’s Dallas clinic, every man who drops his pants and lies on the treatment table, braced for the needle, has come looking for something without being sure what it is. As far as their physical selves are concerned, they know exactly what they want, and they are handing over thousands of bucks to pay for it: they all crave a thicker penis. Whether this will mend their broken self-esteem, though, is not clear.
Daniel Lombroso’s documentary about Moore and his patients doesn’t know precisely what it wants either, as it floats between sad stories of modern male self-image that never merge into a singular takeaway argument. Is it about looksmaxxing and the manosphere? At least one participant has picked up questionable ideas from big, bad podcasts, so yes. But the film is also interested in pornography’s flooding of male brains with extreme imagery, and how unrealistic beauty goals for women can make insecure men blame their ills on their own imperfect appearances. It’s concerned with shame, trauma and homophobia too.
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