Ananova:

A Romanian man who wanted to celebrate getting out of jail with a marathon sex session injected himself with petroleum jelly to enlarge his genitals.

Cosmil Deliu, 25, who was serving a four-year sentence for theft in the prison in Craiova said he had heard the jelly was good for sex - but had misunderstood how to use it.

Prison officers say the man injected himself six times causing his penis to grow to a length of 20 centimetres and a width of 9 centimetres but his experiments were noticed when he collapsed in pain.

Deliu is in hospital in Tirgu Jiu while doctors decide how to relieve his acute pain.