finger Phalloplasty - did you know about it?

[Medusa]

I just see this on web when I was chatting with my ftm friend.
Do you know it?
They make it from finger (amusing idea)

[Padma]

Worth it just for the alarm clock photo.

[AbraCadabra]

That's heavy - glad I'm done without any of that...

FtM have my compassion...

Axélle

[Maja.V]

... Wow. I'd freely give my penis away if it meant that a FtM guy could use it. Just ... Wow.

[Adio]

I've seen that site before.  Why is this amusing to you?  Not many people go this route.  It's certainly not the only phallo option out there.

[Padma]

To me it just seems one of the available viable options. It was only the photo with the alarm clock that I found amusing.

[caseyyy]

it would suck to lose a finger, but for some I can see it being preferable to a graft scar on the arm. A missing finger can easily be explained away.

[Adio]

I never said it was amusing. Quite the opposite.

Beverley

Sorry, but the OP said "They make it from finger (amusing idea)".  I wasn't trying to say that you thought it was amusing.

[Ayden]

No, but it sums why I don't think I will be getting bottom surgery. At least not for a very, very long time. Don't why it's funny though (to OP).

[Hermione01]

How interesting and quite impressive. Before I looked I assumed that the finger was donated, obviously from a donor before they died, (but I suppose a penis could be donated then too). It's a bit drastic losing your own finger, but it's a decision I'm sure they thought long and hard about.

[caseyyy]

I wonder if it could be done with a finger donor.

I also really don't get why some people think it's *that* bad. I mean, I'd rather have all my fingers, and I won't go for phallo anyway, but for some people it seems like a really good choice given all that's currently available. It's just a finger; I don't really think missing a finger means much in the face of missing something much more integral to one's identity. And quite a few people think even MTF surgery is 'awful'  and horrifying, but it's saved lives.

[Beth Andrea]

That is a pretty darn good option, if I say so myself. The size of it is very credible, and to have a fully functional penis for just the loss of one finger would be a good trade, if I wanted a penis (and they remake your hand into a "Simpsons" three-finger hand (I had thought there'd be a gap between pointer and ring finger))...the rigidity is "useable", but not quite the rock-hard that a cis-man would have.

I'd give a "thumbs up" to it, but I don't want that to be lopped off...

Kinda gives a new meaning to having a "boner", eh? 

[Padma]

I wonder if it could be done with a finger donor.

This would bring on all the awful array of drugs necessary for anti-rejection - it's much harder to get the body to accept someone else's tissue, even when it's a good match. It's hugely more straightforward to use your own tissue, from that point of view.

[Cindy]

Sounds terrible. Probably unethical. And cosmetically of not much use. JMO

[justmeinoz]

Did I know about it?  No, and now I wish I didn't,  I find using the third finger disturbing but also strangely hilarious. 

[Jam]

I know this is old but I had to say sommat.
I was aware of it due to a friend who has an uncanny ability to know really random stuff.

Frankly I really want bottom surgery but NO WAY would I give up my finger for a penis...

I just couldn't do it...besides I'd probably just spend the rest of my life thinking of it AS my finger. I dont think i'd ever really be able to get away from that and just think of it as a penis.

[Felix]

That is so cool. I did not know about it, but honestly haven't looked much into phalloplasty really. Looks like we'll be in the pioneering stages of it for awhile yet.

[King Malachite]

I heard about something similar done with a cismale on Ripley's years ago.  The guy said urination was exteremly painful to him.  As much as I want a weiner I would like to hold it properly with all fingers attached so I will have to pass.  I hope something improves within the next 10 years.

[Cindy]

And now for my piano recital, as the trousers are whipped off

[Silver]

XD Oh dear. I had no idea but it kind of horrifies me. Good to know about, though. Even if I won't go that route.