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Posted inHealth, News/Politics

Becoming a man…and losing something on the way

Reader Blog by Reader Blog 17 March 201517 March 2015

By Olga Bialostocka As South Africa celebrates the first, successful penis transplant in the world, with much-deserved public awe, the question we should ask is why there’s a demand for this sort of specialist treatment. The results of the medical efforts of Stellenbosch University surgeons should be praised but the reasons why young men lose […]

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What good is tradition if we lose a penis?

by Tiffany Kagure Mugo 3 April 201414 April 2014

Recently a young man lost his penis. The member in question was lost during an initiation ritual and when he attempted to ask the elders what to do about it (raising the matter in a public forum) he allegedly received a beating. The reason he got this beating? Because by speaking out the initiate was […]

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