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 ...
They already do in Europe.
Much appreciated. Language on this Forum has been deteriorating lately. Don't let the ribbing bother you.
Wow! Now we can heal the sick AND raise the dead.
Hm. Europeans.
“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?
I guess they could donate a portion of the testes. But who wants half a mangled ball sack that's used anyway?
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.
We have the winner!
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.
Riding your steel pot into a hot LZ ...
Would the sperm have the donor genetic makeup?
Men don’t make sperm in their penis.
Testicle implants are for hormone stability only. They’re more ‘grafts’ than true implants.
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?
Prayers up for these young men. They have been through hell. Let’s hope this works for them.
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.
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!
>>>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.
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.
Not according to what we heard today......wrong organ.
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