Weird Health News: The Particular Penis

The eye of the beholder?

The first penis transplant was successfully performed a few weeks ago in China. A 44-year-old man, who had had his penis irreparably injured in an accident, underwent the 15-hour trailblazing transplantation at Gaungzhou General Hospital.

The man had the misfortune to be eligible for the transplant due to the injury to his penis eight months ago that had left him with a 1-centimeter long stump that he could use to neither urinate properly nor engage in sexual intercourse.  During the transplant, he had a 10-centimeter (4 inch) long penis, which had been donated by the family of a brain dead young man, attached in an incredibly complicated microsurgery. The transplantation was considered a success. The nerves and blood vessels were attached, and ten days after the procedure, the man was able to use the penis to urinate.

So, can he have sex? We will never know.

Two weeks after the penis transplant was completed, the man returned to the hospital to have the donated organ removed. That’s right. Now you see it, now you don’t.

It seems that the penis was causing more pain than pleasure. The problem was not physical pain. By all accounts the patient was healing nicely and on schedule. The blood supply to the organ was adequate, and it was functioning well.

No, apparently the patient’s wife objected to the unfamiliar organ, and was traumatized by its presence. The couple had made the transplantation decision together with the medical team, and both requested that the procedure be performed. But in the end, the wife just could not handle the addition of the new member of the family.