I find it strange that this man went through the surgery to be refitted with a penis and that the penis was going to survive and provide him hopefully with the pleasure he'd been missing, but then because his wife didn't like it he had it removed. I'm sorry, but I would not have done that for her. If she didn't want to have intercourse with him because this was another man's penis, that's her problem. I know it's different than getting a kidney or liver, but still, this was important to the man and she should have at least tried it. Maybe it was bigger than his original or maybe she just couldn't come to grips with having another man's penis inside her, so put a condom on it. Geez!
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/chinese- ... plant.html
Hu writes in the journal that "there was strong demand from both the patient and his wife" for the transplant to take place. He says that the surgery "was discussed again and again," and the transplant was approved by the ethics committee of the hospital. The donor penis came from a 22-year-old brain-dead man whose parents agreed to donate his organ.
The transplant surgery was a success, but just two weeks later the recipient and his wife requested that the new organ be removed "because of the wife’s psychological rejection as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis," according to the surgeons’ report. According to Dr. Yoram Vardi, who wrote a commentary accompanying the journal article, psychological issues involved in organ transplants of any kind are keenly important to pay attention to. Vardi, a neurology and urology specialist at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, said that if doctors had paid more attention to the need for counseling and psychological concerns surrounding the transplant, "the need for penile amputation could probably have been avoided."
