Binh Dan Hospital
A man sits on his motorbike in front of Binh Dan state hospital in Ho Chi Minh City April 23, 2007. Reuters/Stringer

A 59-year-old Vietnamese man broke his penis after attempting a daring new sex position. The man, whose genital broke at the joint, was rushed to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City where shocked medics treated the still-naked patient.

Gold Coast Bulletin reports that the unidentified man’s penis became bright purple in colour after he heard a very loud crack and experienced extreme pain throughout his body. According to Mai Ba Tien Dung from Binh Dan Hospital, the man’s organ was swollen and bruised and broken at the joint.

A team of doctors stitched the broken penis back together. Dung says without timely surgery, the patient would suffer from a deformed and curved penis and erectile dysfunction.

He adds what happened to the man is a very rare case since it only happens one in a thousand times based on cases of broken penises in medical literature, Mirror reports.

One such victim is former NBA star Dennis Rodman who said his penis was broken thrice during sex. One incident happened with his girlfriend in the back of a boat in Dallas, Texas, which resulted in a lot of blood spilled that the woman thought she killed the former Chicago Bulls player.

In October 2013, Aurora Snow, a female porn star, told Huffington Post in a live video interview a similar accident involving a male porn actor happened. The newspaper identified the patient as Prince Yahshua, who attempted a reverse cowgirl position scene, but his partner came down too hard and broke his penis.

"It missed the entry point ... It bent, and there was just blood gushing all over," Huffington Post quoted Snow. However, the Urban Daily reported that Prince's penis was not totally damaged. After he went through reconstructive surgery, the only proof of the insertion accident are scar tissues on his male anatomy.