Posted on 12/07/2015 11:58:36 AM PST by servo1969
Within a year, maybe in just a few months, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will have an operation that has never been performed in the United States: a p-nis transplant.
The organ will come from a deceased donor, and the surgeons, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, say they expect it to start working in a matter of months, developing urinary function, sensation and, eventually, the ability to have sex.
From 2001 to 2013, 1,367 men in military service suffered wounds to the genitals in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. Nearly all were under 35 and were hurt by homemade bombs, commonly called improvised explosive devices, or I.E.D.s. Some lost all or part of their p-nises or t-sticles - what doctors call genitourinary injuries.
Missing limbs have become a well-known symbol of these wars, but genital damage is a hidden wound - and, to many, a far worse one - cloaked in shame, stigma and embarrassment.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The whole having to look down and see another man’s uh hu, much less have to touch it to go #1. No thanks.
I pray the operation works
No jokes, no puns ... give the warrior back his masculinity
What is a p-nis? The same as a penis?
P-nis????
The word PENIS is a correct anatomical term and is not an expletive and not obscene. All or most male humans have one.
Why on earth does the word to be disguised so ?
What about looking down and seeing nothing at all?
Whats a P-nis.
Is that like a Penis?
Geesh....I think were all grown ups here.
” t-sticles”
Oh HOLY CRAP. They are TESTICLES!!!!!
Beat me to it.No pun intended!
I want .... that one right there.
It’s YUGE.
I don’t care if it’s the wrong color.
OH, it’s the NYT. Never Mind. They’ve never heard the word. LOL.
Both are bad news.
“Could you super-size that order?”
—n-s.
They used it in the head line
.
It’s not that.
They just don’t want to use the term we use for Obama in the article.
How long until mentally ill women can can get one?
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