Man who had world's first total penis transplant can now achieve orgasm
Soldier underwent pioneering surgery after his genitals were blown off in Afghanistan.
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The man’s pubic area shown before the operation (Provider: NEJM)
A soldier whose penis was blown off in Afghanistan is now able to have orgasms again following pioneering transplant surgery. In 2018, the unnamed man underwent the world’s first penis and scrotum replacement operation. The procedure appears to have been a success and the unfortunate emasculated war hero is now ‘feeling whole again’, doctors reported. He can achieve erections again and can even reach climax. The former soldier has also returned to school and is able to urinate while standing. He ‘sustained traumatic penile loss caused by an improvised explosive device’ in Afghanistan. Both his legs were both amputated above the knee and he was left with a ‘1.5-cm-long’ penis stump with no scrotum or testicles. But doctors at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, transplanted an entire penis, a scrotum without testicles and a partial abdominal wall from a man who had died.
Now in a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of medical experts said the new manhood was working well. They wrote: ‘It has now been more than one year since the patient received the penile transplant. He has near-normal erections and the ability to achieve orgasm, as well as substantial improvements in pleasure scores on patient-reported outcome measures. ‘He has normal sensation to the shaft and tip of the transplanted penis and can localize touch sensation. ‘The glans has recovered to near-normal sensibility [and] sensation in the penile shaft has recovered to higher thresholds than that in the glans. ‘The patient urinates while standing, without straining, frequency, or urgency, with the urine discharged in a strong stream. ‘The patient has returned to school full time and continues to live independently using leg prostheses. He reports an improved self-image and “feeling whole” again and states that he is very satisfied with the transplant and the implications it carries for his future.’
A view of the transplanted penis after surgery (Provider: NEJM)
The most recent shot of the transplanted manhood (Provider: NEJM)
