Over the past few days, the internet has been collectively guffawing at a set of news stories detailing the first penis transplant in the US, which could happen as soon as sometime in the next few weeks.
Sure, the notion of a "penis transplant" might incite a case of the giggles. Penises aren’t medically necessary to keep a patient alive, after all, unlike procedures like heart transplants.
But consider: doctors at Johns Hopkins, the first medical team to perform the procedure in the US, intends only to perform the surgeries on veterans who lost their genitalia during combat.
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