# Tissue Engineers Grow Penis - with feeling

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 30, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175 "2003-04-30T15:51:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175/1 "2003-04-30T15:51:56Z")

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> April 30, 2003 — Doctors who have grown penile tissue in animals to demonstrate the possibility of organ replacement have now gone one better — they have added nerve cells.

[Article](http://health.discovery.com/news/afp/20030428/penis.html) :eek:

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**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175/2 "2003-04-30T16:21:30Z")

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> Eventually, though, it may help create replacement tissue for men who have lost parts of the penis following prostate cancer surgery or an accident, or to enhance the genitals of children born with abnormalities.

Riiiiight. That’s what they say but we _all_ know what they’re really thinking.

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**Author:** ![Sock\_Munkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Sock\_Munkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sock_Munkey)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175/3 "2003-04-30T20:25:27Z")

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild his peins. We have the technology. Better, stronger, faster.

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**Author:** ![effac3d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@effac3d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/effac3d)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175/4 "2003-04-30T20:32:37Z")

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## Eventually, though, it may help create replacement tissue for men who have lost parts of the penis following prostate cancer surgery or an accident, or to enhance the genitals of children born with abnormalities.

Why would prostate cancer surgery remove part of the penis?

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175/5 "2003-04-30T20:50:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Sock Munkey \*  
> \*\*Gentlemen, we can rebuild his peins. We have the technology. Better, stronger, faster. \*\*

hmmmm, _faster_ may not be exactly a selling point… at least, my last girlfriend would not have thought so.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175/6 "2003-04-30T20:53:09Z")

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[What can I say?](http://wavcentral.com/cgi-bin/log/log.cgi?id=703&sound=/sounds/movies/fasttime/fastim01.mp3)

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**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tissue-engineers-grow-penis-with-feeling/172175/7 "2003-04-30T20:57:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by quietman1920 \*  
> \*\*[What can I say?](http://wavcentral.com/cgi-bin/log/log.cgi?id=703&sound=/sounds/movies/fasttime/fastim01.mp3) \*\*

Warning, this seems to be an MP3 file [fastim01.mp3] so those of you at work may not want to click on it…