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PENIS TRANSPLANT - Patient is happiest man on ward

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I think I would be really damn happy too!

He is certainly one of the happiest patients we have seen in our ward,” Seeker quotes Dr. Andre van der Merwe as saying. Van der Merwe and his surgical team recently completed their second successful penile transplant—this time on a 40-year-old man who lost his penis 17 years ago during a botched circumcision ritual. The team performed the world's first penile transplant in 2014. The unnamed patient is doing well and should have complete sexual and urinary function within six months. It's said he got "quite emotional" when he saw his new penis


http://www.newser.com/story/243219/worlds-3rd-ever-penis-transplant-is-a-success.html


OOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

but there's a big need for the surgery in South Africa, where it's estimated there are up to 250 penile amputations every year due to traditional circumcision rituals. As an initiation rite, young men are circumcised with a spear tip then sent into the wilderness for weeks, during which time infection often sets in.
 
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tradition is very important for a culture to exist, but sometimes certain rituals should be abandoned when things like infections are learned of

as humans we must change our culture sometimes to survive, self-defense swords were replaced firearms for example
 
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