# Docs Grows Penis on an Arm **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 6, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067 "2001-09-06T16:52:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/21 "2001-09-07T02:47:19Z")
> [@](#): > > If you just search under “phalloplasty”, all you get is the cosmetic surgery penis enlargement websites. > > Not that those aren’t fun, too. Men Oh, shush. If you had a penis yourself, you’d understand perfectly. ::sighs:: Someday… someday soon… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/22 "2001-09-07T03:05:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*I dunno what you people are getting so excited about–this is a standard operating procedure for sex-change operations. This is how they create the “new” penis, except that they usually use the skin of the abdomen or thigh. > \*\* No, the Pravda folks are trippin’. The procedure described is entirely imaginary: > [@](#): > > In the beginning they made a cut on his forearm and stitched an expander in there – a 12 centimeter empty latex cylinder. A certain amount of physical solution was injected in the expander daily, the skin was expanding and growing taking the shape of a penis. Much tidier-sounding. Hey, I’ve got some “physical solution” in the fridge… Now, where’s my pocket-knife? ---
**Author:** ![andyrose2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@andyrose2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyrose2000)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/23 "2001-09-07T04:06:59Z")
This guy was trying to steal my wallet, so I kicked him in the crelbow. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/24 "2001-09-07T04:23:16Z")
Now he’s got four bones in his arm instead of three like the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/25 "2001-09-07T05:55:12Z")
**DDG** : Oh. My. God. I’m gonna go hurl, then send it to my closest friends. Jesus. ---
**Author:** ![bryanmaguire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bryanmaguire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bryanmaguire)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/26 "2001-09-07T08:06:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Lao \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Spyderman \* > > \*\*…is the Sun a British version of the National Enquirer? \*\* > > Yes, very much so. The story probably bogas. \*\* While the Sun is hardly a bastion of journalistic integrity I think it is a bit unfair to compare it to the National Enquirer. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/27 "2001-09-07T14:32:41Z")
This reminds me of that guy that had his forearm severed and he received a reattached limb donated from a corpse. What if it had been female, wake up and you’ve got some chick’s right arm? I guess he’d never have to worry about a date again. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/28 "2001-09-07T14:50:59Z")
…That’s handy ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/29 "2001-09-07T17:02:27Z")
Did they bring over some bone too or is it the first penis without a radius? ---
**Author:** ![moronmountain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@moronmountain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moronmountain)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/30 "2001-09-08T19:49:37Z")
Ok, the website for “The first sex reassignment surgery (SRS) performed officially in Japan” is officially disgusting. I never want to see that again. I understand about the free barf bags…my nuts hurt just looking at that. Ouch. Ewwwwww. Yuck. Disgusting. And so forth. Sucks to be that guy too, because after he became a she, her neovagina shrunk to roughly the volume of two C-cell batteries stacked one on top of the other. I repeat, OU-FRIGGIN’-CH! ---
**Author:** ![jonfromdenver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@jonfromdenver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonfromdenver)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067/31 "2001-09-08T20:14:50Z")
this reminds me of that recent news article about the guy who burned his eyelids off when he got drunk and drifted too close to his campfire. the doctors who operated on him used his foreskin to reconstruct new eyelids for him. the procedure was successful, but afterward he was a little cock-eyed. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/docs-grows-penis-on-an-arm/80067.md?page=1)