IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LIVE WITH ANOTHER MAN’S PENIS

The recipient of the world’s first penis transplant has asked doctor’s to remove the appendage due to “a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife,” according to surgeons at China’s Guangzhou General Hospital. Doctors spent 15 hours attaching a 10 cm penis to a 44-year-old man after an accident damaged his original equipment beyond repair. However, just two weeks later the man asked to have the surgery reversed. According to the French surgeon who performed the world’s first face transplant, psychological factors are a larger obstacle to successful operations than the surgical techniques themselves. “Psychological consequences... show that it is not so easy to use and see permanently a dead person’s hands, nor is it easy to look in a mirror to see a dead person’s face,” said Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard. “Clearly, in the Chinese case the failure at a very early stage was first psychological. It involved the recipient’s wife and raised many questions.” (The Guardian)