Title: Penis removal - Wikipedia
Headings: Penis removal
Penis removal
Contents
Penis removal in medicine and psychology
History of involuntary penis removal
China
Japan
Arab slave trade
Treatment and effects of penis removal
Phalloplasty
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References

Content: Penectomy
Some men have penile amputations, known as penectomies, for medical reasons. Cancer, for example, sometimes necessitates removal of all or part of the penis. In some instances, botched childhood circumcisions have also resulted in full or partial penectomies. A man who has his penis removed may have one or more problems with his personality, urination, sex life, and vulnerable testicles; he may also experience a phantom penis (see phantom limb ). Genital surgical procedures for trans women ( transgender or transsexual women) undergoing sex reassignment surgery, do not usually involve the complete removal of the penis; part or all of the glans is usually kept and reshaped as a clitoris, and 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 colovaginoplasty are used which do 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 . Some men have undergone penectomies as a voluntary body modification, thus including it as part of a body dysmorphic disorder .