Penectomy
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'''Penectomy''' is the practice of [[surgery|surgical]] [[penis removal|removal of the penis]] for medical reasons.
[[Cancer]], for example, sometimes necessitates removal of all or part of the penis.<ref name="pmid17896151">{{cite journal |author=Korets R, Koppie TM, Snyder ME, Russo P |title=Partial penectomy for patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the penis: the memorial sloan-kettering experience |journal=Ann. Surg. Oncol. |volume=14 |issue=12 |pages=3614–9 |year=2007 |pmid=17896151 |doi=10.1245/s10434-007-9563-9}}</ref> In very rare instances, botched [[circumcision]]s have also resulted in full or partial penectomies, as with [[David Reimer]].
Genital surgical procedures for [[transsexual]] women undergoing [[sexual reassignment surgery|sex reassignment surgery]] do not usually involve the complete removal of the penis. Instead, part or all of the [[glans penis|glans]] is usually kept and reshaped as a [[clitoris]], while the skin of the penile shaft may also be inverted to form the vagina. When procedures such as this are not possible, other procedures such as [[Vaginoplasty#Colovaginoplasty|colovaginoplasty]] are used which may involve the removal of the penis.
Issues related to the removal of the penis appear in psychology, for example in the condition known as [[castration anxiety]]. Others, who associate the organ with [[rape]], male dominance and aggression, may consciously or [[unconscious mind|unconsciously]] see the organ (their own or those of others) as a weapon and express a hatred for it, potentially desiring to see it violently removed.{{Fact|date=December 2007}}
Some men have undergone penectomies as a voluntary [[body modification]], but professional opinion is divided as to whether or not the desire for penile amputation is a pathology, thus including it as part of a [[body dysmorphic disorder]]. Voluntary [[subincision]], removal of the [[glans penis]], and bifurcation of the penis are related topics.
==References==
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==See also==
* [[David Reimer]]
* [[John and Lorena Bobbitt]]
* [[Penis transplantation]]
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