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US Veteran Regains Sexual Function Thanks to Penis Transplant

By M. Christian
December 26, 2019
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Patient reports “feeling whole” after recovering from groundbreaking surgery.

Veteran Penis Transplant

More than a year and a half ago, we reported on a United States Navy veteran who suffered severe injuries to his scrotum and penis after he’d been attacked during his tour of duty in Afghanistan.  

Now, via a recent Associated Press article, we are pleased to be able to say that the soldier has recovered from a penis transplant procedure and has even been quoted as saying that he is “feeling whole.” 

The patient has regained both sexual and urinary function with the new organ.

Groundbreaking surgery

Beyond the pleasure in delivering such good news about his condition, this update also brings with it a great deal of optimism that similar techniques could be used to heal others who have undergone similar injuries.

The operation, in which Richard Redett led an extensive team of surgeons including nine plastic surgeons and a pair of urological specialists from Johns Hopkins, took 14 hours to complete.

The procedure itself involved surgically attaching a set of sexual organs from a donor to the wounded serviceman.

While not the first of such operations, others having been performed for example by a team in South Africa, there was still some guarded optimism.

Now, though, it appears that not only has the procedure been a success, but, according to the AP report, the patient is more than happy with the result.

Hoping for the best

Groundbreaking surgery

One place that has always been at least a little optimistic that the procedure would be advantageous was Johns Hopkins. There, as we also reported way back in 2016, doctors had been making tentative plans to use a similar technique on upwards of 60 other soldiers with similar injuries.

While we haven’t heard if these patients will be undergoing a similar operation anytime soon, we can only hope that the success of this one case will mean that others will have an opportunity to recover at least some sexual function.

Even though it has not been brought up by those involved, these kinds of procedures could also someday mean new surgical options for interested transsexuals beyond the techniques currently available.  

Speculating further, the surgery may even be able to bypass the need for donations, instead of using biologically printed or biosynthetic genitalia to do the job.  

A whole person

Meanwhile, the soldier, quoted by the New York Times, reports that he is extremely happy with the result, that it has put him on the path to being a complete person again and has even given him hope for the future—including possibly a career in medicine.

“Definitely, to do well in school,” he says about his plans, “to go to medical school and follow my career as a doctor, find my niche in the field and just excel at it. Maybe settle down and maybe eventually find someone, and get into a relationship, maybe. Just that normal stuff.“

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M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

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