Well I hope we all learn our lesson from this one guy. That lesson being, never ever get your junk inked. 

A 21-year-old Iranian man had Persian script reading borow be salaamat (good luck on your journeys), and the first initial of his girlfriend’s last name (“M”) tattooed on his dick. Also rule number 2 after rule number 1 of never getting a penis tat is, never get your girlfriend's initials anywhere on you.

Because of this terrible decision making, the man is left with a permanent semi for the rest of his life.

So how did this go from bad idea to really really bad idea? MSNBC has the answer. 

"The answer rests in the traditional technique the man subjected himself to. “Handheld needles are used and there is no control of the depth of the needle,” Iranian urologists reported in the most recent Journal of Sexual Medicine. “Henna, ash, and other natural pigments are used by traditional tattooists. They first use their needles to penetrate the skin. Then they apply the coloring material on the perforated skin surface.”

The man also refused any treatment, which leads me to believe he had some sort of dysfunction before this incident. 

"They recommended he see a specialist to have the blood removed, but he rejected that idea and saw another doctor to have a shunt procedure performed. It didn’t work. Since the fellow is still able to have sex, and achieve a more-or-less normal erection, he’s rejected any more treatments, even the one his urologists recommended in the first place."