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P-nis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded Troops
nytimes.com ^ | 12-6-2015 | DENISE GRADY

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 ...


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To: Politicalkiddo

They already do in Europe.


41 posted on 12/07/2015 12:44:25 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: servo1969
Just trying to keep this on the board and not have it removed. Mainly I was just concerned about the part that shows on main News list.

Much appreciated. Language on this Forum has been deteriorating lately. Don't let the ribbing bother you.

42 posted on 12/07/2015 12:46:24 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: servo1969

Wow! Now we can heal the sick AND raise the dead.


43 posted on 12/07/2015 12:47:09 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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To: MrEdd

Hm. Europeans.


44 posted on 12/07/2015 12:47:12 PM PST by Politicalkiddo (“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts!"- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DoughtyOne

“They just don’t want to use the term we use for Obama in the article.”

LOLOLOL Thanks for that explanation. :-)

But Seriously, BOTH Penis and Testicles are both valid words in the English language.

Maybe the Politically Correct Pussification of America has taken hold here on FR?


45 posted on 12/07/2015 12:55:15 PM PST by rhoda_penmark
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To: Bubba_Leroy
They don't cut it off, they slice it down the middle and fold the two halves down to create the, uh, opening, and they re-purpose the sack skin to imitate the inner region. As I understand it, they end up with an open wound that has to be maintained ad nauseam lest it scar over.

I guess they could donate a portion of the testes. But who wants half a mangled ball sack that's used anyway?

46 posted on 12/07/2015 12:55:26 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: knarf

Last year I came across a story about men who’d lost their testicles and how terrible the VA was with dealing with this problem.

We’re talking about endocrinology. We’re talking about hormones that affect the entire body and the brain.

Yet, there seems to be no ‘expert’ who can take on this problem.

My son lost one testicle to a biking accident when he was only 9 years old. Thankfully, one will do the job. But now he’s *very* careful to protect the ‘last man standing’.

Feminists go on and on about the horrors of FGM, but nobody seems to take it seriously when a man is mutilated.

Yes. Give these men their manhood back. Restore their hormone function. (Testicle transplants were tried - successfully - decades ago) Return them, as best as we can, to their natural state.

It is the humane thing to do.


47 posted on 12/07/2015 1:43:21 PM PST by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
DING DING DING DING!

We have the winner!

48 posted on 12/07/2015 2:01:55 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien, I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: knarf

I have a couple of the newer “individual first aid kits” for troops, and it is sobering. We’ve evolved from the battle dressing in a pouch to a small plastic box with a few more supplies in a pouch to a large pouch with a tourniquet, a “naso-pharyngel airway” (a rubbery straw-like device which appears to let one administer CPR to someone without a mouth or face by blowing through what is left of their nostril opening), “Quik-Clot” to stop bleeding, a dressing with industrial-type tape to affix it...

God help those in need of these kits.


49 posted on 12/07/2015 2:03:16 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BwanaNdege
"Known in 'Nam as "The Wound!":

Riding your steel pot into a hot LZ ...

50 posted on 12/07/2015 2:04:11 PM PST by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: servo1969

Would the sperm have the donor genetic makeup?


51 posted on 12/07/2015 2:16:16 PM PST by alternatives? (Cruz or Trump)
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To: alternatives?

Men don’t make sperm in their penis.

Testicle implants are for hormone stability only. They’re more ‘grafts’ than true implants.


52 posted on 12/07/2015 2:18:10 PM PST by Marie (Hey GOP... The vulgarians are at the gate.)
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To: Albion Wilde; servo1969

Are you two serious? Penis is a bad word? and testicles? What sort of bubble do you live in where those are offensive? Next time I go to the doctor should I insist he call it my pee pee instead?


53 posted on 12/07/2015 2:40:23 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: servo1969

Prayers up for these young men. They have been through hell. Let’s hope this works for them.


54 posted on 12/07/2015 2:47:49 PM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: knarf

This thread brought to mind the Band of Brothers movie.

In one scene Easy Co. was taking a town from the Germans when artillery pounded them.

One guy stumbled out of a building with horrible wounds. Half of one foot was blown off, bloody wounds to his legs, stomach chest and head.

As his friends begin to dress his wounds the 1st Sgt notices his groin is very bloody.
He rips the man’s fly open to take a look: you are going to be fine buddy, everything is exactly where it is supposed to be.

I know my stomach did a little turn watching that scene the first time.


55 posted on 12/07/2015 2:56:50 PM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of a loving God and Virginian because Jesus loves me.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

If it’s a choice between some dead guys Willy or a colostomy bag..... I just hope they can get a close pigment match.
Keeping in mind that something is better than nothing.
Even if it is a used model.

On a lighter note, if I get one from a black guy I hope he was hung like a horse and I get the luxury model!


56 posted on 12/07/2015 3:05:57 PM PST by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the grace of a loving God and Virginian because Jesus loves me.)
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To: servo1969
I remember reading, back during WW II, that the Russians had developed a method for reconstruction of the penis, not a transplant. Evidently their troops had an unusually high level of injuries there, probably due to land mines like the Bouncing Betty.
57 posted on 12/07/2015 3:47:32 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: bigdaddy45

>>>What is a p-nis? The same as a penis?<<<

Obviously one so large that its name had to be hyphenated.
Otherwise it would have to be called a Peeeeeeeeeeeeeenis.


58 posted on 12/07/2015 3:50:52 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: bigdaddy45

No, I don’t think those words are offensive; but I do agree with the poster’s intention not to have them on the Forum front page, rather that shoving sex-related words in others’ faces just “because he can.” JimRob has asked that this be a family-friendly site. Erring on the side of caution or preferring good editorial taste is not the same as censorship.


59 posted on 12/07/2015 8:15:59 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Not according to what we heard today......wrong organ.


60 posted on 12/07/2015 8:17:58 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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