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Man With Two Penises* Loses Wife (*Penile Reconstructive Surgery)

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A German who persuaded doctors to give him a second penis has lost his wife after he showed her the result.

Biker Michael Gruber, 40, lost his original penis in a motorbike accident and doctors built him a second one using a mixture of skin, bone and other tissues from his own body.

The penis worked so well that he was even able to father a child with his wife Bianca, 25, and their son Etienne was born last year.

But Gruber was still not happy and asked doctors to repeat the operation and build him a better organ, to which they agreed.

However, before removing the first penis doctors said they needed to make sure the new tissue transplant was a success, and had to leave the first penis in place.

Dr Markus Kuentscher, a plastic surgeon at Berlin's Accident Hospital, said: "We left the old one attached until the new one is properly supplied with blood."

But when Gruber showed his wife his double penis, she went home, packed her bags and left.

From his hospital bed he said: "I've got two penises but no wife, but I am hoping when I get rid of one of the penises I will get her back."

His testicles are intact and will be connected to what is actually his third penis when doctors are happy the operation was a success.

His story was this week featured on a German TV documentary called The Last Penis Operation.
 
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So he was like a dog with two dicks then?

I am awfully suspicious about this (as I am with a few other Ananova stories) but I'm pretty sure I have seen a documentary on his original penis surgery - the accident was grim - he was driving far to fast when he hit something and rocketed off his back straight forward and left his tackle behind caught on the bike. If so I have seen the reconstructed item and its pretty grim looking (a proper Frankenpenis) and I thought his girlfriend at the time had given him the heave ho as he required a pump to put any life back in his manhood.

The Sun seem to have some extra info liek the number of ops but the report seems to be from the same source:

Just call me two willies

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A BIKER who lost his manhood in a freak accident now has two willies — but no wife.

Michael Grueber, 40, is recovering in hospital from his 140th operation since the 1997 crash.

The latest was to graft another penis next to one formed from fat and muscle tissue after the prang that smashed his groin.

It functioned well enough to provide him and wife Bianca, 25, with a son, Etienne, a year ago.

But it has since stopped working — and his wife left. When the new willy is strong enough to operate on its own, the first graft will go.

“For now I am the man with two penises and no wife,” he moaned from his hospital bed near his home in Berlin.

“I just want a normal life.”

www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005112966,00.html

There also seems to be a story form a German publicaiton here (although it is currently not responding):

www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1515887,00.html
 
Sounds like a Tom Waits song title...
 
Think of the money he could make on the German porn market.

Any more information on why she left? Was she afraid of what he might try with two penises? Suspicious that he'd done it for someone else? Worried that the new one was too big?
 
sounds like he make a cock-up or two, or was that his surgeon?
 
Biker Michael Gruber, 40, lost his original penis in a motorbike accident and doctors built him a second one using a mixture of skin, bone and other tissues from his own body.

Bone??

Bill.
 
I didn't spot that Bill!

Hard as a rock...
 
I assume this is another similar Frankenstein-style operation:

Russian surgeons 'grow' penis on man's forearm

By Nick Holdsworth in Moscow
(Filed: 10/04/2005)

A Russian man born with genitals so small that he was unable to have sex has been given the chance to lead a normal love life after a new penis was "grown" on his arm during pioneering surgery.

In an 11-hour operation, plastic surgeons in Moscow removed the 28-year-old's undersized penis and stitched it on to his left forearm, where they grafted on additional flesh and tissue taken from his inner arm. The newly enlarged organ, which had grown from less than 2ins to nearly 7ins, was then reattached to his groin.

His surgeon, Professor Mikhail Sokolshchik, of the National Medical Surgical Centre, hopes that the patient will eventually be able to have sexual relations and father children.

The patient, who comes from a Siberian village and was identified only by his first name, Sergei, paid more than £1,000 towards the cost of the operation, which the doctors warned was performed at his own risk. The bulk of the cost, however, was borne by the clinic, which hopes to market the procedure to similarly afflicted men around the world.

Prof Sokolshchik, who has specialised in microsurgery and phalloplasty - plastic surgery for male sexual organs - for 13 years, said: "We've carried out thousands of operations on patients, ranging from female-to-male transsexuals to the treatment of victims of horrific accidents, and have a wealth of experience in amputation, reconstruction and surgical implants.

"But this operation was highly risky because it was an amputation, reconstruction and reattachment in one go. If it had gone wrong, the patient would have ended up with no genitalia at all."

It is thought that up to one in 200 men are born with "micropenises" - the medical term for male genitalia that are less than two inches long when aroused. Many sufferers find intercourse either difficult or impossible, often having acute psychological problems as a result.

During Sergei's operation, the surgeons began by removing the tip of his penis - the most sensitive part - and grafting it to his left forearm, allowing cell and tissue material to be kept alive.

Simultaneously, skin from his forearm was cut into two separate flaps, which were rolled up and stitched around flexible tubular silicone implants to fashion a lengthened shaft.

The shaft and tip were then joined as one, before they were removed from the forearm and sewn back on to the base of the man's groin. A section of skin from his thigh was then grafted on to his forearm to reduce visible scarring.

Throughout the operation, doctors swiftly reattached severed veins, capillaries and nerve endings to reduce the risk of sensory damage.

Surgeons have previously used skin from a man's forearm, which is similar in composition to that of the male genitals, in micropenis surgery. Usually, however, the micropenis is not removed. Instead, the artificially created shaft is grafted alongside it. The result is in some cases largely cosmetic as the new shaft may have only limited sensation.

David Ralph, a consultant urologist at St Peter's Hospital and the Institute of Urology in London, who pioneered the original technique last year, said that Prof Sokolshchik appeared to have taken the procedure a stage further.

"This seems to mean that the small penis has been joined to the top of the new one, which is slightly different to our own technique," he said.

Prof Sokolshchik, who plans to publish full details of the procedure in a medical journal, said the patient was coming to the end of his two-month recuperation period since the operation.

Sergei should soon be able to have sex for the first time. He will not be able to achieve an erection, but will be in a permanent state of semi-arousal. "He has never had a partner or sex because of his micropenis," Prof Sokolshchik said.

"Now he has the opportunity to begin his sexual and romantic life and to father children, assuming his sperm count is normal."

He declined to give further details about Sergei, beyond saying that he contacted the centre eight months ago after reading about it on the internet. Sergei still faces challenges in his quest for a successful love life. "He has never had a partner before and lives in a village in an extremely remote area," said Prof Sokolshchik. "It may not be that easy for him."

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I assume this is another similar Frankenstein-style operation:
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For the record ... Here's the explanatory illustration accompanying the news article, salvaged from the Wayback Machine ...

PenileArmGraft.jpg
 
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