“If you don’t have a penis, you are essentially dead,” van der Merwe said at a press conference celebrating the first transplant. “If you give a penis back, you can bring them back to life.”https://qz.com/africa/1140050/south-african-surgeons-transplanted-a-white-penis-on-to-a-black-man/ …
Everything about this story is awful. "initiates are not permitted to drink water for up to eight days after the circumcision". Gonna say there are some traditions that need undoing.