Penis Transplants Being Planned to Help Wounded Troops

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15. No way I'd mess with immune-suppressing drugs for that.

I've got some scars in regions I keep covered in public, but had the surgeon asked, it was a long time ago when nobody ever questioned surgeons, I'd have preferred minimal scarring over appearances.

I've since had a few doctors tell me they could fix me up with a prosthetic testicle. Seriously, these things exist. My opinion, and my wife's opinion too, is "Why?" Okay, well maybe if the prosthetic had some sort of high technology bionic superpower embedded in it, or maybe just a bluetooth speaker that could play "Jingle Bells" for Christmas, or make "talking penis" jokes.

Returning to the original post, it's good to have these choices available, most especially for wounded veterans who are certainly traumatized in other ways beyond that particular injury.

Either way, it's not up to "doctors" to decide. There are pros and cons of every medical procedure and it's up to the medical professionals to describe the pros and cons clearly enough that the patient can make an informed decision.

Clearly that sort of injury can be "psychologically traumatic experience for males of all ages," as the National Institute of Health says, but that's not true for everyone. In my family tradition those bits are more often silly fun than they are serious components of personal identity.