Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
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LolaBrenny (imported)
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Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
I want to get rid of mine. But I figured: Hey why not earn a bit of money while doing so. I mean surely there are people who would love a testicle transplant. Is there a place where you can sell your testicles?
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Re: Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
Just in case this post was not tongue-in-cheek testicles, like entire eyeballs, cannot be transplanted. Often one (and on rare occasions both) are removed when cancer is suspected, but once removed they go into the bio waste trash even if negative for cancer.
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TopManFL (imported)
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Re: Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
42 U.S. Code § 274e prohibits the selling of any human organs. The penalty is five years in prison and a $50,000.00 fine.
So, the answer is no.
The only testicular transplants I've ever heard of were between identical twins. One twin lost both his testicles. The other identical twin donated (for free) one of his testicles. In the operating room, they tested testosterone levels of the twin that received the testicle and his T levels returned to normal almost immediately.
Besides organ rejection, receiving a testicle for transplant from anyone other than an identical twin raises the question of paternity. Any children fathered by the recipient of the testicle would have the DNA of the donor. In the case of identical twins, there is neither a problem with tissue rejection nor paterinty as the twins share identical DNA.
--- Article from WebMD on Identical Twin Testicular Transplant ---
https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20191209 ... -from-twin
Dec. 9, 2019 -- A man who was born without testicles got a transplanted one from his identical twin brother, doctors say.
The six-hour operation on the 36-year-old patient was performed early last week in Belgrade, Serbia, by an international team of surgeons, The New York Times reported.
Being born without testicles is rare and this is only the third known transplant of its type. The first two were performed in St. Louis 40 years ago and involved two pairs of identical twin brothers. In each pair, a brother did not have testicles.
The goals of the recent surgery included giving the patient more stable levels of the male hormone testosterone than could be provided by injections and to enable him to father children, Dr. Dicken Ko, a transplant surgeon and urology professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, told The Times.
Ko was one of the surgeons on the transplant team.
By last Friday, the recipient had normal testosterone levels, Ko told The Times.
Surgeons operated on the brothers simultaneously, in adjoining rooms, the newspaper reported. During the intricate procedure, doctors had to stitch together two arteries and two veins that were less than 2 millimeters wide.
"Once you remove the testicle from the donor, the clock starts ticking very fast," Dr. Branko Bojovic, an expert in microsurgery at Harvard Medical School who participated in the surgery, told the The Times.
"Within two to four hours, you have to have it re-perfused and working again," Bojovic said. Without a blood supply, a testicle is viable for only four to six hours.
Doctors say testicle transplant surgery could have wider applications for transgender people, accident victims, wounded soldiers and cancer patients, The Times reported.
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So, the answer is no.
The only testicular transplants I've ever heard of were between identical twins. One twin lost both his testicles. The other identical twin donated (for free) one of his testicles. In the operating room, they tested testosterone levels of the twin that received the testicle and his T levels returned to normal almost immediately.
Besides organ rejection, receiving a testicle for transplant from anyone other than an identical twin raises the question of paternity. Any children fathered by the recipient of the testicle would have the DNA of the donor. In the case of identical twins, there is neither a problem with tissue rejection nor paterinty as the twins share identical DNA.
--- Article from WebMD on Identical Twin Testicular Transplant ---
https://www.webmd.com/men/news/20191209 ... -from-twin
Dec. 9, 2019 -- A man who was born without testicles got a transplanted one from his identical twin brother, doctors say.
The six-hour operation on the 36-year-old patient was performed early last week in Belgrade, Serbia, by an international team of surgeons, The New York Times reported.
Being born without testicles is rare and this is only the third known transplant of its type. The first two were performed in St. Louis 40 years ago and involved two pairs of identical twin brothers. In each pair, a brother did not have testicles.
The goals of the recent surgery included giving the patient more stable levels of the male hormone testosterone than could be provided by injections and to enable him to father children, Dr. Dicken Ko, a transplant surgeon and urology professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, told The Times.
Ko was one of the surgeons on the transplant team.
By last Friday, the recipient had normal testosterone levels, Ko told The Times.
Surgeons operated on the brothers simultaneously, in adjoining rooms, the newspaper reported. During the intricate procedure, doctors had to stitch together two arteries and two veins that were less than 2 millimeters wide.
"Once you remove the testicle from the donor, the clock starts ticking very fast," Dr. Branko Bojovic, an expert in microsurgery at Harvard Medical School who participated in the surgery, told the The Times.
"Within two to four hours, you have to have it re-perfused and working again," Bojovic said. Without a blood supply, a testicle is viable for only four to six hours.
Doctors say testicle transplant surgery could have wider applications for transgender people, accident victims, wounded soldiers and cancer patients, The Times reported.
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JessicaH (imported)
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Re: Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
I’d be happy to donate them without any fees.
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JesusA (imported)
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Re: Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
TopMan FL found all of the information that I have about successful testicle transplants.
About one in 5,000 boys is born with only a single testicle and about one in 20,000 is born without testicles, but otherwise fully male. In the West, its usually treated as a medical emergency and prostheses are inserted at a young age, with larger ones substituted as the boy grows older. Testosterone therapy pushes the boy through puberty at a normal age. Rarely does a boy show up in the medical system as anorchic at an older age, and then generally about concerns for not having begun puberty by late teens. Of course, in the ancient world, they would have been considered born eunuchs as they would have been equivalent to eunuchs castrated before puberty.
In the transplant case that's described, both men were married and the one with testicles had already sired three children. In an eight-hour operation by a team of surgeons with the two men lying on operating tables in adjacent rooms, one testicle was transplanted to the anorchic twin. It took properly, and he later had a child with his wife. Since his testicle was actually his brothers, theres the ethical question of who the proper biological father is. Artificial insemination with his brothers sperm would have accomplished the same biological purpose without the expense and pain. Other than between identical twins, the problem of tissue rejection would be difficult to overcome.
At one time, Carolina Biological Supply (www.carolina.com (http://www.carolina.com)) listed preserved human testicles in their catalog. Today they only carry slides of human testicle sections. The source for the testicles (as well as most of their preserved human anatomy materials) was India. There is no call for a domestic source.
About one in 5,000 boys is born with only a single testicle and about one in 20,000 is born without testicles, but otherwise fully male. In the West, its usually treated as a medical emergency and prostheses are inserted at a young age, with larger ones substituted as the boy grows older. Testosterone therapy pushes the boy through puberty at a normal age. Rarely does a boy show up in the medical system as anorchic at an older age, and then generally about concerns for not having begun puberty by late teens. Of course, in the ancient world, they would have been considered born eunuchs as they would have been equivalent to eunuchs castrated before puberty.
In the transplant case that's described, both men were married and the one with testicles had already sired three children. In an eight-hour operation by a team of surgeons with the two men lying on operating tables in adjacent rooms, one testicle was transplanted to the anorchic twin. It took properly, and he later had a child with his wife. Since his testicle was actually his brothers, theres the ethical question of who the proper biological father is. Artificial insemination with his brothers sperm would have accomplished the same biological purpose without the expense and pain. Other than between identical twins, the problem of tissue rejection would be difficult to overcome.
At one time, Carolina Biological Supply (www.carolina.com (http://www.carolina.com)) listed preserved human testicles in their catalog. Today they only carry slides of human testicle sections. The source for the testicles (as well as most of their preserved human anatomy materials) was India. There is no call for a domestic source.
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cutnbulls2ox (imported)
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Re: Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
LolaBrenny (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 01, 2020 3:58 am I want to get rid of mine. But I figured: Hey why not earn a bit of money while doing so. I mean surely there are people who would love a testicle transplant. Is there a place where you can sell your testicles?
Looks like time for you to have an auction in India or underground for trophy hunters.
I imagine there has been very little effort by the medical community to try transplanting testis. Since their prevailing attitude seems to be, get on artificial testosterone for masculinization. And use sperm donors for impregnating. Problem solved. No further effort required.
Its really is a huge shame that unknown numbers of prime testicles do go to waste every year. Especially among male to eunuch and male to female surgery patients who often have outstanding testis to donate or sell ! The unexplained desire to incinerate all human tissue is an odd one to explain rationally when people own their detached body parts even after surgery or accidents. It should be the owner s sole decision what is done with their body parts. Not a bunch of sissy, anti sex, puritan, control freaks in government and medicine.
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smoothandslimboy (imported)
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Re: Is there a place where you could sell your testicles?
Side note is that it was testicular transplant were often used unsuccessfully for gay coversion therapy. It was thought that replacing gay balls with straight balls would cure the gayness. Not sure where the straight donors came from.