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[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

WWI brought about the birth of modern plastic surgery, burn treatments and various other surgical interventions.

That said, phalloplasty as it is done today is a post-WWII development (there was a form done in the 20s using an extracted rib I think), but it really only became practical when microsurgical techniques were developed, and the development of various penile implants (inflatable or rigid rods).

It has very much improved over the 70 or so years it has been done, as all surgical reconstruction procedures have.

Suicide is fairly prevalent in men who lose their penises (to trauma or disease) so I wouldn’t blame a man for deciding to go through with it. But that’s a totally different situation to a healthy teenage/adolescent girl deciding to undergo the procedure because of a nebulous feeling.

[–]jet199 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

They don't do any micro surgery on these women.

They just give them a roll of skin. Most don't have implants because they have to be changed every 10 years. They don't even bother making them functional for urinating usually. More commonly they divert the urine into the bowel.