# Transplanted penis ensued **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 20, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423 "2006-09-20T15:40:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/1 "2006-09-20T15:40:44Z")
Man, there’s just no way to write this OP without it sounding like a joke, is there? [World’s first penis transplant ends in amputation](http://365gay.com/Newscon06/09/091906penis.htm). Not because of any rejection but because the recipient apparently couldn’t handle it. Psychologically couldn’t handle it, that is. > [@](#): > > Chinese doctors said they successfully transplanted a penis on a man who lost his own in an accident, but had to remove it two weeks later because of psychological problems experienced by the man. > > . . . > > Surgeons led by Dr. Hu Weilie at Guangzhou General Hospital performed the transplant in September 2005, a hospital spokesperson said Tuesday. The penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ. Can you even begin to imagine _that_ conversation? ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/2 "2006-09-20T15:53:48Z")
He needed to give his new buddy more time, two weeks just isn’t enough to get to know someone. Take him for walks, show him around, hat sort of thing. But no, he just had to dump him. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/3 "2006-09-20T16:55:29Z")
What kind of psychological problems? Did he think it was talking to him? Did he feel like everytime he touched it he was touching a dead guy’s penis? Was he afraid it would take over and make him go out and have sex with people? I predict this thread title will appear in many a sequential threads post. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/4 "2006-09-20T17:03:50Z")
It was probably a lot smaller than what he was used to. Or much too big compared to his first. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/5 "2006-09-20T17:19:32Z")
Maybe it was like the genital version of **The Hands of Orlac** or **Mad Love**. > **[The Hands of Orlac (1924) ⭐ 7.0 | Crime, Horror, Mystery](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015202/)** > > 1h 32m | Not Rated > **[Mad Love (1935) ⭐ 7.2 | Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026663/)** > > 1h 8m | Passed > **[The Hands of Orlac (1960) ⭐ 5.6 | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054963/)** > > 1h 35m ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/6 "2006-09-20T18:07:17Z")
Okay, bumping this to hopefully put it next to “4 hours in SF - offbeat things to do?”…bwahahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/7 "2006-09-20T19:31:18Z")
Maybe it kept getting caught in the [vacuum cleaner](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=388889). ---
**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:** [September 20, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/8 "2006-09-20T20:42:03Z")
That’s got to be the worst case of penis envy I’ve ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![SlowMindThinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@SlowMindThinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlowMindThinking)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/transplanted-penis-ensued/373423/9 "2006-09-20T21:13:44Z")
The article I read said it was his wife that couldn’t [drumroll] … [/drumroll] handle it.