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The male penis piercing is called a Prince Albert.Does anyone know why?(did he have one)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.this seems pretty unlikely - Wikipedia certainly isn't convinced, and suggests it was just a cute form of publicity. How would anyone have known? Did Queen Victoria give interviews on the subject? I would have thought not...
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A lot has been written about the history of this piercing, but very little of it is true. The most common story is that it was a "dressing ring" used to pull the penis into tight fitting fashions, and that Prince Albert himself had one. Other people have suggested that he wore it to keep his foreskin retracted and "fresh smelling" so as not to offend his Queen. Others most notably Doug Malloy have suggested that it was worn by divers to hold onto a urine trap as an alternative to a catheter. There is no conclusive evidence that any of these is particularly true.
Another amusing but also likely fictitious story is that Germanic warriors of the late medieval period wore these genital piercings in order to pull their genitals tightly between their legs in order to avoid sword injuries during combat. Whether this story is true, or simply an excuse for those with Germanic heritage to boast about their masculinity is up for debate, but the safe money is on this not being the truth either.