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@Mary Lee Harvey osWalsh
While I deeply sympathize with men who have had this horrible thing happen to them, I would argue against it even for such individuals, because there simply isn't a way to surgically Frankenstein a urethra out of any other type of human tissue. Men can lose the entirety of their penis, and their urethral functioning will remain largely intact because the urethral sphincter which is under voluntary control is positioned way up in the pelvic cavity. Now, if you take the shortened urethra and surgically "extend" it with another type of tissue that was not constructed to handle the acidic properties of urine, that tissue is going to degrade faster and in ways that are unpredictable. You can never, ever take skin and put it place of a mucosal membrane and expect it to perform the same function.
Remember Gruffin, people? She had a rotdog installed which eventually killed her, but I distinctly remember that she first gained social media notoriety by talking about her urethral diverticulum. Basically, a pocket formed between her "natal" urethra and the fake one connected to her rotdog, it started collecting bacteria, and she was left with an infection that never went away, because regardless of the strength of the antibiotics, the same type of bacteria would always "get stuck" in that pocket that should not exist. A male who lost his dick and had a rotdog sewn in place of it would still this as a likely complication.
I'm not a man so take this with a grain of salt, but I could argue in favor of phalloplasty or partial phalloplasty for men who have lost their dicks to cancer or an accident or something. They at least have the skeletomuscular structure to handle a dangling appendage.
While I deeply sympathize with men who have had this horrible thing happen to them, I would argue against it even for such individuals, because there simply isn't a way to surgically Frankenstein a urethra out of any other type of human tissue. Men can lose the entirety of their penis, and their urethral functioning will remain largely intact because the urethral sphincter which is under voluntary control is positioned way up in the pelvic cavity. Now, if you take the shortened urethra and surgically "extend" it with another type of tissue that was not constructed to handle the acidic properties of urine, that tissue is going to degrade faster and in ways that are unpredictable. You can never, ever take skin and put it place of a mucosal membrane and expect it to perform the same function.
Remember Gruffin, people? She had a rotdog installed which eventually killed her, but I distinctly remember that she first gained social media notoriety by talking about her urethral diverticulum. Basically, a pocket formed between her "natal" urethra and the fake one connected to her rotdog, it started collecting bacteria, and she was left with an infection that never went away, because regardless of the strength of the antibiotics, the same type of bacteria would always "get stuck" in that pocket that should not exist. A male who lost his dick and had a rotdog sewn in place of it would still this as a likely complication.
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