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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: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:00PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:00PM (#277694)

    It is if those "civilians" are shooting people's dicks off.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @05:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @05:23PM (#277775)

    There must be such shootings, but mines or IEDs are probably the usual causes:

    From the Voice of America piece:

    According to the BBC [bbc.com], research indicates that up to seven percent of combat veterans suffer genital injuries, many from blasts from improvised explosive devices.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday December 17 2015, @06:15PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 17 2015, @06:15PM (#277800)

      I apologize for completely misrepresenting the situation as civilians only shooting soldier's dongs off when most of the damage has been caused by makeshift bombs.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @10:35PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @10:35PM (#277949)

        Thank you. I do see how placing an IED that is likely to destroy someone's genitals is similar to shooting someone in the groin. Perhaps you can see how placing anti-personnel mines, which also tend to wound the genitalia, is similar to placing an IED. The U.S. has laid such mines, and as a non-signatory of the Ottawa Treaty it reserves the right to continue laying them.

        I do recognise that for someone to go to battle without a uniform goes against the laws of war. Yet I hesitate to condemn those who, after their countries were invaded and defeated, decided to do so.

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Thursday December 17 2015, @11:58PM

          by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 17 2015, @11:58PM (#278004)

          I actually have mine training. I have seen, touched, captured caches, and destroyed real mines while in Iraq. Trying to lecture me on what a mine (or bullet or ied) does to someone is a waste of time.

          Trying to get into a political debate about the US and mines is also a waste of time. All US minefields are marked with signs because they literally want to deter people, not kill them. Minefields are supposed to be an area denial weapon. Unfortunately some (non-US) people just put them unmarked wherever and use them like traps. The only active US minefield i know of (from memory) is some parts of the Korean DMZ. There is also a temporary minefield option that some commanders may use but it literally self-destructs after a few hours. Practically worthless and i doubt it has ever been deployed. The US will never sign that pact because mines can serve as an extremely useful defensive weapon. But the US does heavily restrict its mine use because of historical abuses of the weapon. The closest thing to a mine that is actively deployed would be the claymore, which is command detonated only.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday December 17 2015, @08:40PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday December 17 2015, @08:40PM (#277888) Journal

    WMDs I was like meh. However, THESE ATROCITIES MUST NOT STAND!