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Lab-Grown Human Penis Coming Soon

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday October 21 2014, @09:58AM   
from the My-shame-knows-no-bounds dept.

azrael writes:

Mashable reports on the latest medical breakthrough from a government-funded lab in North Carolina. The lab has already grown tissue for 30 human organs, including kidneys, hearts, bladders, urethras and even vaginas. Now scientists have added another vital organ to the list: the penis.

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem has successfully engineered the first six lab-grown human penises, the scientists revealed over the weekend — and they're just waiting for FDA approval to move forward with what they call "in-man" testing.

In the meantime, the engineered penises are being put through their paces in the lab — courtesy of machines that squash, twist and stretch the organs, and pump them full of fluid to test their erections.

• Stem Cells + 3D Printing + Rule 34Stem Cells + 3D Printing + Rule 34 (Score: 4, Interesting) by cafebabe on Tuesday October 21 2014, @02:30PM

  by cafebabe (894) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @02:30PM (#108244) Journal

  After it was announced on Fri 11 Apr 2014 that four girls between the ages of 13 to 18 with MRKH [Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome] each received a stem cell vagina [dailymail.co.uk], I worked through the implications. On Sun 13 Apr 2014, having nowhere better to post it, I put it on Craigslist. After it disappeared into Craigslist's filtering system, I received exactly one response within 15 minutes of appearing in the index. From this, I believe I managed to shock a member of Craigslist's editorial staff. Since then, the first uterus transplant birth was announced and now we discover that a stem cell penis is imminent. However, I am disappointed that the broader implications of this scenario have already been described on this forum as a "creepy fantasy" [soylentnews.org].

  Anyhow, here's a tidied version of what I posted on Craigslist:-

  Stem Cells + 3D Printing + Rule 34

  Porn is going to get really weird within the next 10 years. And I mean unrecognizably weird. I've thought through some of the details but I doubt that I've begun to consider many of the possible and eventual scenarios.

  The most obvious trend is the combination of biological stem cell technology and 3D printing. Stem cells (which exist in blood, fat and almost every tissue) can be coaxed into becoming almost any type of cell. At present, stem cells have been used to make lungs and livers in mice and has even got as far as windpipes in humans. A major problem with stem cells was coaxing them into a useful shape. However, that's been solved with dissolvable scaffolds and/or 3D printing.

  So, in the not too distant future, if you require a replacement arm or uterus, it will be a matter of:-

  1. Take a blood sample.
  2. Extract stem cells by centrifuge.
  3. Make them reproduce in large quantities.
  4. Get them to differentiate in tendons, muscle or skin.
  5. Load them into the hoppers of a 3D printer.
  6. Print the required body part.
  7. Run tests.
  8. Implant.
  9. Keep the surplus material frozen.

  So who would be interested in this process? People with disabilities would definitely be interested although we may find that mechanical solutions are best for lower limbs and biological solutions are best for upper limbs. People with specific job requirements may find modifications to be useful. So, people may want hands or feet in specific shapes. People may want new sexual organs and there's a definite market for people who are impotent, menopausal and/or transsexual. There's also porn.

  Within 10 years, we could be in a world where anyone can have elective surgery to obtain an 18 inch penis. It will be a matter of growing erectile tissue in vats for a few weeks and printing it in a matter of hours.

  However, if I was a pornstar (or an aspiring pornstar), I wouldn't want to be without the tool of my trade. So, to limit the downside, that would mean the 18 inch penis would be grafted adjacent to the existing penis and the existing plumbing would be left intact. After a short course of anti-erection drugs, the new penis should heal quite nicely. However, at this point, there would be no need to remove the old penis. You'd have a freakishly large penis and also a freakishly rare second penis. Why risk further surgery when this would be used for one man, one woman, double penetration porn (which I'll abbreviate as 1M1WDP)?

  However, this is only the most vanilla scenario that I could devise. There could be a remake of Edward Penishands without the prosthetics. Or a woman with vaginas on her hips taking it in five holes. Or perhaps you'd enjoy live action tentacle porn? Perhaps someone will make biological sex toys? I'm sure that fetishists would love that. Especially if they were affordable to buy. At this point porn becomes an infomercial for biological services. You could have a living fleshlight made from your boyfriend/girlfriend/mother/father/brother/sister/son/daughter/hot second cousin, or, if you're sufficiently lonely/narcissistic, made from yourself. In either case, why go home for a wank when a hot penis/pussy/anus is always available? Perhaps you'd have two or three so you could fuck one while sucking the others? Or maybe you'd like to share them with your closest friends? If you have a clothing fetish like a stockings/foot fetish, a rubber/nipple fetish or an upskirt/panties fetish, you could dress them up. If you have a testicle/cum fetish, perhaps you'd like your own big-balled cum machine? (I await the first money shot where a porn actress drowns in cum.)

  Furthermore, these sex toys will create secondary markets for medical services and suchlike; much like pets. People spend insane amounts on veterinary services for their pets and I bet they'll spend more on their own flesh and blood. (Actually, what sort of qualifications and insurance would you need to work on this stuff? And would you admit to being in this market?) Additionally, they'll require food and maintenance if you're absent - which could be socially awkward. They may require registration/legislation otherwise the police will get mightily confused about disposed body parts. And I haven't covered pregnancy or sexual disease.

  Anyhow, porn is going to get really, really weird.

  Here's the only response I received:-

  Thank you. That is by far the best post I've read for a long time, possibly ever.
  Amused and scared me simultaneously.
  What with your scenarios on one hand, and the rise of the machines on the other, we're doomed...
  So there is no reason not to have another glass of wine, really!

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• Re:Stem Cells + 3D Printing + Rule 34(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday October 21 2014, @08:36PM

  by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday October 21 2014, @08:36PM (#108390) Journal

  In short this may have the following consequences:
    * Many more people than now can be repaired.
    * The demands for human donors will lessen.
    * Tailor made organs that gives new capabilities that doesn't exist presently (japanese tentacle porn goes real..).
    * Experimentation by DIY people and by pharmaceutical companies.
    * Standalone sexual organs will give birth to a new industry.
    * There will be a maintaince industry for standalone organs.
    * The question what happens if you "print" a human brain hasn't been answered. And someone will try with huge implications.
    * Biodolls and computer driven dolls via direct interfacing brings up new issues.
    * Craigslist has no clue on stem cell research.

  If all organs can be replaced. Has the eternal life issue then been solved?

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• Re:Stem Cells + 3D Printing + Rule 34(Score: 1) by Murdoc on Thursday October 23 2014, @02:27AM

  by Murdoc (2518) on Thursday October 23 2014, @02:27AM (#108990)

  Yeah, I've seen pretty much everything you've mentioned here, and more, in some science-fiction role-playing sessions. After all, isn't that one of the great things about SF is being a giant thought-experiment-playground for the possible future uses of technology? Throw in a sufficiently decadent future society and people's imaginations go to some strange places indeed. One player in particular I remember getting especially creative with her biologically customizable human sex slaves, although I suppose "human" might have been pushing it a bit.

  Thanks for the ideas on how close we are to this already though!

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