
ResERECTION: The Penis Implant
A team travels to Miami to meet one of the country's leading penile implant surgeons and find out what the procedure actually involves, medically and financially. Doctors explain who ends up needing an implant, from complications of diabetes and prostate surgery to injuries that leave men unable to get an erection any other way, and walk through the mechanics of the device itself, a hydraulic pump surgeons install inside the body. Patients speak on camera about what drove them to consider the surgery and what recovery is actually like, adding a personal register to what could otherwise be a purely clinical report. The film treats a subject usually confined to hushed doctor's-office conversations as a straightforward medical story, following the money as much as the anatomy, since the procedure is not cheap and insurance coverage is inconsistent. It is less about titillation than about a specific, unglamorous fix for a problem a lot of men are too embarrassed to bring up.