article_snippet: Patient has been able to resume a sexual relationship with this girlfriend just five weeks after the world's first successful penis transplant.
article_snippet: Just five weeks after the world's first successful penis transplant was carried out by surgeons from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, the 21-year-old patient was able to have sex with the 21-year-old patient .
article_snippet: As part of the procedure, doctors transplanted a new penis, donated by a deceased man.
article_snippet: Ten years ago, a man in China received a transplant, but asked surgeons to remove a donated penis two weeks after the operation.
article_snippet: The picture shows how the nerves of the donated penis were joined to a man in China's genital region .
article_snippet: Image shows the nerves in the donated penis, which were joined to the man's groin area.
article_snippet: It was a privilege to be part of this first successful penis transplant in the world.'
highlights_snippet: The penis was donated to Tygerberg Hospital by the family of an organ donor .
  