In China, Reuters reports that:

Surgeons in China who said they performed the first successful penis transplant had to remove the donated organ because of the severe psychological problems it caused to the recipient and his wife.

Dr Weilie Hu and surgeons at Guangzhou General Hospital in China performed the complex 15-hour surgery on a 44-year old man whose penis had been damaged in a traumatic accident.

The microsurgery to attach the penis, which had been donated by the parents of a 22-year-old brain-dead man, was successful but Hu and his team removed it two weeks later.

“Because of a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife, the transplanted penis regretfully had to be cut off,” Hu said in a report published online by the peer reviewed journal European Urology, without elaborating.

“This is the first reported case of penile transplantation in a human,” Hu added.

… “The patient finally decided to give up the treatment because of the wife’s psychological rejection, as well as the swollen shape of the transplanted penis” Hu added.

It was not stated in the report how long the man’s original penis was. The penis transplanted to him was 10-centimetre (4-inch) long, which is not bad by Asian standards.

The wife’s reaction was expected. The mere thought of his husband using another man’s penis could have been creepy.

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