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Veteran receives world's first total penis and scrotum transplant at Johns Hopkins
WOWK TV NEWS 13 ^ | April 23, 2018 | WOWK

Posted on 04/23/2018 9:57:11 PM PDT by Morgana

BALTIMORE, MD (WCMH) - On Monday, surgeons at The Johns Hopkins Hospital announced they have performed the world’s first total penis and scrotum transplant.

The team of nine plastic surgeons and two urological surgeons performed the 14-hour surgery on March 26. Their patient? An veteran who was injured in Afghanistan. Doctors used the entire penis and scrotum (minus the testicles) from a deceased donor.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: military; oefveterans; transplant; veteran
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To: Morgana

No jokes here. Once upon a time an Army enlisted man stepped on a Bouncing Betty mine in North Africa. That was a nasty thing whose first charge sent it into the air at crotch height and whose second charge peppered the air around it with shrapnel. This fellow was lucky - the “bounding” charge didn’t go off and it exploded in the ground, wounding him in the legs but that’s all. I wouldn’t be here otherwise, because that was my father. So yeah, no jokes. Prayers up for the patient.


21 posted on 04/23/2018 10:52:27 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Bullish

Ever see pictures of her from the 1930s? She was a total babe.


22 posted on 04/23/2018 10:53:52 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (When words can mean anything, they can also mean nothing.)
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To: Bullish

Which actress is that?


23 posted on 04/23/2018 11:01:04 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

Frances Bavier played Aunt Bea.


24 posted on 04/23/2018 11:03:02 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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Ooops, I mean Aunt Bee.


25 posted on 04/23/2018 11:03:45 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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To: Morgana

This is a strange thread.


26 posted on 04/23/2018 11:08:03 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Fai Mao

Still, hard to see how the new tool will work properly without the jewels. But it may be psychological in nature, not meant to be functional.


27 posted on 04/23/2018 11:20:37 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: Morgana

I didn’t realize that organ (assembly) was something that could be donated. Well now. Are there Banks of these ‘donations’ kept in certain hospitals? No doubt stored at temperatures well below freezing. The thawing process would be iffy to say the least.


28 posted on 04/23/2018 11:22:23 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Bullish

Aunt Bee is gonna tell Andy on you, and he’s Sheriff of the whole town of Mount Ivey!


29 posted on 04/23/2018 11:26:06 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell

It’s still regarded as experimental and has only been attempted a few times. There has been one instance of an Asian man who just couldn’t deal with having another man’s penis attached to his body and neither could his wife, despite the surgery having apparently been successful, so he requested it be removed. There are some psychological issues to overcome, sounds like. I’m usually a little iffy on transplant surgery personally, but these soldiers have been grievously injured in a manner that strikes at the heart of their sense of being a man. For that reason I support it. I have a deep suspicion that lesbians wanting to complete their masquerade as men will be the ultimate beneficiaries though, since the current surgical mutilation cannot create a credible and functioning organ, and that gives me great pause.


30 posted on 04/23/2018 11:40:36 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Morgana

I think many guys would like their penis to keep having sex after their deaths. The recipient has a donor angel rooting him on.


31 posted on 04/23/2018 11:44:24 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: wardaddy

Don’t you think only the bigger guys would sign on to donate their organs? The guys with a micro penis probably wouldn’t wish it on the recipient. “Here, it never did much for me, you try.”


32 posted on 04/23/2018 11:45:45 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: doorgunner69

He could get dogs’ “neuticles.” No one has to know. Plus once you tell your new lover you have a donor penis, everything else is easy to divulge.

Can you imagine his date who had once dated the donor? “Oh my gosh, you look exactly like Steve Jenkins!”


33 posted on 04/23/2018 11:47:34 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

No. Female to male is not done using a dead guy’s penis. They “fashion” a phony penis using parts of the woman’s anatomy mostly. Many opt not to because it is not really successful.


34 posted on 04/23/2018 11:48:52 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: lee martell

I think Jeffrey Dahmer used a regular fridge or freezer to store his collection.


35 posted on 04/23/2018 11:49:31 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

I don’t recall any specifying whether I wanted to donate my penis or not, so I suspect male organ and tissue donors in general are the candidates, with blood type and possibly skin tone being considerations. If I were one of these poor guys I’d be awfully disappointed if my “new one” was less than impressive, but I think I’d get over it. Better than nothing at all.


36 posted on 04/23/2018 11:50:29 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yeah, I think having one would be better than nothing. I do wonder if it still works normally or if it needs lots of structural help (medicinal or pumping or whatever). Or maybe it only works for peeing and “appearing normal.” We might have to wait to see what this first guy reports.

What if he finds out his junk now responds to the donor’s “fantasies?” That could be weird. “Hey, suddenly I’m into women with hairy armpits and legs!” I may be up too late even to think such weird stuff.


37 posted on 04/23/2018 11:54:41 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: wardaddy

Less frequently?
Married 44 years, and the wife still
tells me to leave her alone.


38 posted on 04/24/2018 12:01:04 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Yaelle

Other transplant recipients have reported acquiring tastes and preferences of deceased donors so it’s not totally out of the question although just how that might be the case is beyond my ability to reason it out. Epigenetics? You got me.

There are transplant recipients who report full function, although patients in the position of the man in this article would have to be on testosterone treatment for life to maintain functionality.

There is a doctor near here who has pioneered regrowing them on a collagen “lattice,” although some penile tissue must remain in order to get the cell culture to repopulate that “lattice.” I guess you could grow one as big as you wanted via that method, lol.


39 posted on 04/24/2018 12:01:34 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I’m thinking it’s more now of a
choice of squatting or standing
up. I’d just be dam*ed glad to
have one. Lord, what this man
had to endure. Strong American
Soldier.


40 posted on 04/24/2018 12:09:30 AM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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