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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.
It's a good thing the other guy had a spare to share
Where there's a will...
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According to the very article, there was a medically successful transplant in 2006 that was later removed only because of the patient's severe psychological reaction.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Serious question:
Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises? Even doing organ swaps where a male-to-female trades with a compatible female-to-male? I realize tissue rejection can be a bitch but I can't imagine the artificial organs they make from the patient's own cells are particularly useful.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
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.
I mean the underlying cause for this operation, a common procedure done on man without consent in a very young age because?
The last thing I heard about this was a campaign on boys age over 10 getting talked into getting circumcised was to prevent AIDS...
The only mammal on this planet tinkering with their dicks in that manner are humans - supposedly having the largest brain.
Must be progress then....
Remember the guy? Whatshisname? John Wayne Bobbit right? Source of the eponymous term bobbitized. What happened to him?
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Indeed. Now how long before a Nigerian prince can offer me low cost penile transplants?
Funny you should say that.
Only this morning I received an email from the director of the St Peter Private hospital in Benin City, stating that I was the only surviving relative of Nigerian prince who had died in a horrendous accident. Do to the nature of that accident they only managed to save his penis, and that in order to maintain the royal line, they needed to transplant it onto me as soon as possible (something about the royal house's flag having a rampant penis - and requiring that rampant penis to be displayed on state occasions). Once this operation was performed I would be awarded all the rewards of that royal household (money, women, power - the usual stuff), but due the death of the prince causing the country to fall into paralysis, they needed me to send $5K to them so that they can fuel up the royal plane and send it out to collect me.
It all sounds legitimate, so I am off to pack my bags.
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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.
I guess he won't need his Corvette anymore...
I never thought there would be a time the phrase "I wouldn't fuck her with your dick" might stand a chance of being modded insightful.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to choose one? That opens up all kinds of possibilities.
Around my teenage years, I got circumcised because of medical complications of having my foreskin. My parents let me make the decision.
I believe the operation is called an "adacoctomy".
They waited three years to do the operation. One of his relatives died, and they convinced the family to allow the donation of the penis provided they made a reconstructed one for the dead man, which they did out of a flap of skin.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Maybe, but you'd need a compatible donor (like a relative), and you still have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life. With current arficially-constructed penises (made using the patient's own tissue), you don't have the rejection problem.
of course there's no chafing - the body has spent years building a keratin layer on the glans to protect the normally-sensitive skin from chafing.
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My parents let me make the decision.
Which is exactly how it should be.
...about the guy with five penises?
His underwear fit like a glove.
It might alter intelligence since " most men think with their dicks"
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.
Indeed. Anything else (except a medical emergency, of course) is mutilation and should land the ones doing it and the ones requesting it in prison. The main aim of male circumcision these days is to make masturbation more difficult. If that does not constitute sexual assault, I do not know what does.
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While anti-vaxxers are just in denial (and dangerous), circumcision is a non-reversible modification of a sexual organ and that _has_ significant impact on the person it is done to. Unless it is an emergency or there is informed consent by the person itself, it is rather bad doing that to somebody. Without strong religious customs, this would land the people doing and ordering it in jail. Said religious customs are also why information about the negative effects are routinely suppressed in the US, or study proposals gounfunded. In Europe, the information situation is a lot better and it simply says "no medical benefits". Surgery without medical benefits and without informed consent is assault, plain and simple.
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You are correct. You do not know what does. You do not know what does are few a few grammar fundamentals as well. Perhaps you might want to do a simple Internet search before ranting online. Here's a quote from the World Health Organization:
The benefits of circumcision that accrue during childhood include a marked reduction in urinary-tract infections, which affect one in 100 uncircumcised boys, mainly during the first two years of life, and inflammation or infection under the foreskin, which affects around 17 in 100 uncircumcised boys before the age of 8. Circumcision reduces the risk of these problems by around 60%. In adulthood, circumcision has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in men by 50% to 60%, and is now recommended by the World Health Organization as an HIV prevention strategy.(Goldman. (2013). Do the Health Benefits of Neonatal Circumcision Outweigh the Risks? wsj.com)
So yeah, not mutilation. Nothing wrong with being uncircumcised of course though I have to say that dealing with SMEGMA as an adult male sounds pretty gross.
Funny, none of these things are observed in Europe. We have medical research here too. Go figure. The other things these "studies" conveniently leave out is that all observable beneficial effects in the rest of the world vanish with reasonable personal hygiene. Cutting something off of people without their informed consent is not an acceptable solution to that problem either.
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