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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the find-big-donors dept.

The New York Times reports that Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland has decided to perform up to 60 penis transplants on "men injured in combat."

The operation is experimental, and only two previous attempts have been reported: an unsuccessful one in China, and a successful one in South Africa. Because the procedure is so rare, the medical team will be seeking explicit consent from the families of organ donors, who may not have contemplated the use of their penises in this manner. One physician noted that, should the transplantation program meet with success, there will be interest in the surgery by transgender people.

A Department of Defense database shows that "from 2001 to 2013, 1,367 men in military service suffered wounds to the genitals in Iraq or Afghanistan."

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  • (Score: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:34AM (#277575)

    They volunteered to kill in the name of Obama.

    They deserved to lose their cocks.

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  • (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:40AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @07:40AM (#277577)

    Mod me troll in the name of Obama! Allahlahlahlahlahlahlahlahlahlahlahlahlahh!

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by zugedneb on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:22PM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:22PM (#277737)

    Sometimes the Soylent people ask what they should do to make the site better...
    This is one of them: a vote if a statement is a fundamental truth, and if yes, it can not be modded down.

    If the statement is not a fundamental truth, than the opposite is correct: u should fuck around on all places on the planet and complain about retribution.

    So, I ask u motherfuckers: is the anon correct or not? (no, it's not me, i don't post anon)

    Anyways, anon, I tried to keep u afloat :DDD

    PS: No, u did not save europe. U saved jews. A lot of us, who are not communists are actually nazis.
    U murdered ur own soldiers for the drunkard Churchill. Morons.

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    old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
    • (Score: -1, Troll) by zugedneb on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:25PM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday December 17 2015, @04:25PM (#277740)

      Was all the murican blood payed worth the saved jews?
      U would pay for jews in blood anytime, anywhere?

      Ah, Troll I see...

      What, the questions is to deep for retarded murican mind or what?

      Is the murican blood spilled today worth what u get for it?

      Also, WTF is it u get for it btw?

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      old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax