# Amid Stiff Odds, Penis Transplant a Success **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949 "2016-05-17T00:17:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/21 "2016-05-17T22:04:02Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Based on another article I read on this case, his testicles were also removed when his penis was. They didn’t want to transplant new testicles along with the new penis to avoid ethical issues. Likewise, mentioned in the article that I saw. So he’s a eunuch now? What good is that second-hand penis going to do for him? All this just so he can pee standing up? To be sure, the article did mention that this case may help advance medical science, eventually to the benefit of all those dispenized war vets. So basically, he’s a human guinea pig. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/22 "2016-05-17T23:23:59Z")
Senegoid: > [@](#): > > All this just so he can pee standing up? Don’t knock it - I’m sure you’ve heard how women complain when someone has left the toilet seat up. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/23 "2016-05-17T23:27:01Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Likewise, mentioned in the article that I saw. So he’s a eunuch now? What good is that second-hand penis going to do for him? All this just so he can pee standing up? He’ll still be able to have a satisfying sex life, even if he can’t inseminate. How many 64-year-olds want to cause a pregnancy anyway? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/24 "2016-05-17T23:38:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > This needs to be made into a major motion picture, just for the headline. > > “Coming Soon - The Tom Manning Story”. > > On a less serious note, would the new equipment “work”, in the sense of being able to reach orgasm? I used to train with an engineer who made some kind of penis pump - AFAICT legitimate ones. It was some device or other that they implanted in the scrotum, and one kind of turned a switch and things would inflate. I don’t know if that enabled full function, in the sense of orgasm, but he talked once about developing a device that was similar to a device called a probang that would be incorporated into the device. > > A probang is a device with which my father the veterinarian was familiar. It is used in collecting semen from bulls for use in artificial insemination. It is electric in nature, and sends a charge (I think) thru the prostate, which is apparently enough to send the bull into his Happy Place pretty much at once. My friend the penis pump engineer talked about adding this functionality to his penis pump. Don’t know if that is actually available as an option nowadays, or if it is done in humans at all. > > I imagine such a combination would be kind of large and invasive. > > Regards, > Shodan “Dirty Jobs” had an episode where a farmer used a gadget called an “Elec-Tro-Jac” to get his animals to, ahem, produce. I’ve heard of some kind of electrodes being implanted into men who have had spinal cord injuries, although I’m pretty sure it’s still experimental. As for the Probang, that’s actually quite funny. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/25 "2016-05-18T00:51:07Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > On a serious note, I just can’t see this having a good ending. But it could have a happy ending. > [@Colibri](#): > > Based on another article I read on this case, his testicles were also removed when his penis was. They didn’t want to transplant new testicles along with the new penis to avoid ethical issues. That would be a ballsy thing to do. OTOH, if they’re good enough for [man’s best friend](http://www.neuticles.com/)… [spoiler] > [@website](#): > > **Neuticles allows pets to retain their** natural look, **self esteem** and aids the pet’s owner with the trauma associated with altering. WTF? Do they gossip bark in the dog park? 😕[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/26 "2016-05-18T02:26:15Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I used to train with an engineer who made some kind of penis pump - AFAICT legitimate ones. Um…train for what? And what is an illegitimate penis pump? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/27 "2016-05-18T04:54:25Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Um…train for what? And what is an illegitimate penis pump? Some health insurance plans will pay for, if you will, legitimate penis pumps (i.e. durable medical equipment) with a doctor’s prescription and demonstrated medical need, whereas others are basically sex toys. (No, I never dispensed any, although a few times, a customer would come to the pharmacy counter and ask to talk to the male pharmacist, and inquire about them.) A poster on another board worked at a dorm for a trade school that had about a 90% male enrollment, and a penis pump was found in a room at the end of the semester. :eek: The woman who found it - not the poster - wondered if it was a stethoscope. 😛 :smack: She posted a picture of it, and it sure didn’t look like any stethoscope I’ve ever seen. It actually looked more like a milking machine, which I guess it was in a way, if you think about it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/28 "2016-05-18T05:31:13Z")
Admit it **Siam Sam** you started this thread just so you could make the pun in #3, right? Not complaining. It was worth it. Just asking. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/29 "2016-05-18T05:52:08Z")
> [@spamforbrains](#): > > I doubt the women are suffering penis injuries. > > Where are they getting donors? They carefully don’t say. Cadavers? Well, no one’s gettin’ mine! > [@panache45](#): > > He’ll still be able to have a satisfying sex life, even if he can’t inseminate. How many 64-year-olds want to cause a pregnancy anyway? I see someone’s never been to Thailand. > [@Princhester](#): > > Admit it **Siam Sam** you started this thread just so you could make the pun in #3, right? > > Not complaining. It was worth it. Just asking. I consider it my seminal work. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/30 "2016-05-18T06:27:32Z")
The patient, who recently began asking to be known only by his middle and last names, is now expected to re-commence using his first name, John. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/31 "2016-05-18T06:37:53Z")
**Sam** your puns from this thread have been relayed to the patient by a pretty young nurse. The patient’s reaction was reported as “growin’”. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/32 "2016-05-18T09:46:50Z")
The poor guy has been 4 years without a penis. That must have been hard on him. I imagine he wouldn’t have thought twice about having the procedure done. Woody? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/33 "2016-05-18T10:01:29Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > The poor guy has been 4 years without a penis. > > That must have been hard on him. > > I imagine he wouldn’t have thought twice about having the procedure done. > > Woody? > mmm That’s about the long and the short of it. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949/34 "2016-05-18T12:29:03Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Um…train for what? And what is an illegitimate penis pump? Trained in judo and jujitsu. For examples of an illegitimate penis pump, check your spam folder. Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amid-stiff-odds-penis-transplant-a-success/754949.md?page=1)