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World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa
PolygamousRanchKid writes The world's first successful penis transplant has been performed by surgeons in South Africa, Bloomberg News reported Friday. The 21-year-old recipient has made a full recovery and regained all functions in the transplanted organ. The nine-hour operation was done Dec. 11 by surgeons from Stellenbosch University and Cape Town's Tygerberg Hospital, the university said Friday in a statement. The unidentified patient had his penis amputated three years ago in a life-saving procedure after he developed complications from a traditional circumcision. "Our goal was that he would be fully functional at two years and we are very surprised by his rapid recovery," said Dr. Andre van der Merwe, head of the university's urology division, who led the surgical team.
When I was a teenager, if we we didn't like some chick, we'd tell our friends "I wouldn't screw he with your dick!"
Now he will always do that
I'll bet masturbation is awkward to think about as well.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Not so far ago, somehow my foreskin slipped off. I couldn't adjust it immediately, and chafing was so bad I was hardly able to walk. This makes me think: those circumcised must be bereft of nearly any feeling in their penises due to callusing.
Those who suffered genital mutilation as newborns don't know the difference, but men in tribes like this that practice circumcision on adults should have known better. Is the religious custom so strong to force them anyway?
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
He just got his own dick back. No someone else's. Big difference. Recently some rapper wigged out on PCP and chopped of his as well, and then tossed it off the balcony. It was sown back on successfully.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Around my teenage years, I got circumcised because of medical complications of having my foreskin. My parents let me make the decision.
You seriously have no idea why? Wow.
Cleanliness is the reason. To help prevent the spread of STDs amongst other things.
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Some of us have large brains and some of you apparently do not.
Thanks for the limited brain compliment. I like those, qualifying the author right off the bat.
As I mentioned before, it's a taboo issue.
I can be polemic as well: Old impotent males getting off on playing with babies dicks and reducing their sensitivity for life - perversion to the highest degree!
For the facts:
Penis foreskin removed, some consequences:
1. Glands penis is no longer protected and exposed to abrasion which causes a hardening of glands penis surface skin - also named orange peel - causing sensitivity reduction in the range of 40 - 60 %.
2. Foreskin has nerve endings and sensitivity - gone.
3. With foreskin removed, the outer skin of the penis can no longer move back and forth during intercourse causing increased friction and abrasion.
Here is a quote from http://www.cirp.org/library/an... :
> During heterosexual activity, the mucosal surfaces of the glans penis and
> foreskin move back and forth across the mucosal surfaces of the labia and
> vagina, providing nontraumatic sexual stimulation of both male and female.
> This mucous-membrane-to-mucous-membrane contact provides the natural
> lubrication necessary for sexual relations and prevents both the dryness
> responsible for painful intercourse and the chafing and abrasions
> which allow entry of sexually transmitted diseases, both viral and bacterial.
Circumcision may have had value in societies in dry climates with very limited water supplies, who knows where this originated. Nowadays it seems to be promoted by religious fanatics and sexual perverts harming males for life!
Fact is that a healthy vagina has an acidic environment due to lactic acid bacteria and prevents disease causing organisms.
So - a penis visiting a healthy vagina frequently may be the best prevention of STD and other (mind)crap.
I got myself circumcised at age 25 because my foreskin was too tight (when fully retracted, an erection would hurt like hell). The urologist pointed out that my problem could be alleviated by a partial circumcision, but I had come to despise that piece of skin and so specifically asked for the old-fashioned deal, a.k.a. a "religious" circumcision.
When I had healed to the point where the bandage could come off, I was very sensitive for a while, and walking felt weird. But what happens after a while is that the skin of the glans kinda dries a bit, and the sensitivity gets a bit less. It's still sensitive enough to get the job done, but I'm not aware of it any more. It feels fine and I'm completely satisfied with the outcome.
Bah. The main aim of circumcision these days is to prove that religion is able to exert power, without regard to any other underlying consideration. The second motivation is the desire of doctors to exert control, the third is parents. This is a perverted desire to exert socially acceptable force.
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