Did you remember the old case, or what?
So what you're saying is that some woman who was born old and is getting younger is cutting penises off men, possibly for occult purposes? At least we'll be free of this menace by 2040.
Or longer, since I see she was 38 in 1997 and now, 8 years later, is only 35. Perhaps she needs the penises to slow the youthening process.
I discovered an amazing web tool that substitutes for memory.
Hmmmm, Vancouver, then Alaska. Could the "35-year-old" be a typo and she is 45 years old?
On the other hand Kim Tran seems to be a pretty common name.
Perhaps she needs the penises to slow the youthening process.
Watch out boys. We know the secret now!
I'm now noticing that some sites say she's 35-y.o., some say 33-y.o.
Lots of details in the local paper, including that the guy was married to Tran's aunt. Name unknown.
Regarding the B.C. Tran:
Ms. Tran took a meat cleaver from the kitchen, pulled down his pants, cut off his penis, flush to the pubic bone and flushed it down the toilet.
But wait!
Ms. Kim Tran is not the only overseas Vietnamese woman who severed her husband's penis.
In March 1996, a Vietnamese woman in Sydney, Australia -- also named Tran -- attempted to cut off her husband's penis with scissors.
I think that if we apply Occam's Razor to this situation, we'll find that w-lfs-n's solution is simpler than the outlandish idea that there are two Vietnamese women named "Kim Tran."
Scissors do not sound like a very effective method. This whole topic is pretty creepy.
Slate takes up reattachment questions.
My favorite part of the Slate piece:
Even in the case of a clean cut, surgeons often remove some tissue to shorten the appendage.... In situations where significant shortening is undesirable, vein grafts from other parts of the body can provide some leeway.
You liked that better than this part? --
"When veins can't be sewn up right away, surgeons apply live leeches. A single leech can suck up 10 cubic centimeters of blood from a severed penis"
I wish Kotsko hadn't cited Occam's Razor.
So that's why they call 'em trannies...
Is every other guy now also sitting with legs crossed?
Yeesh.
A deal on the TV mentioned that when performing sex change from male to female they keep the scrotal tissue for use as the vagina. They need to scrape it pretty thin first.
Ahem. You gotta really want it to do something like that.
Though you should read the chapter of Pynchon's V. entitled "In which Esther gets a nose job" sometime. Rough stuff.
Hey, there's a sequence of Soft Machine songs called "Esther's Nose Job".
It just strikes me as deeply disturbing that there are well-known, time-tested techniques for penis reattachment.
At this point, with my worldview so shaken, I might not be surprised if there were a required course on the subject in med school.
'It just strikes me as deeply disturbing that there are well-known, time-tested techniques for penis reattachment.'
there was a very well known case in which the doctor, who it turned out was drunk at the time, reattached the penis to the wrong patient who IIRC was in for a gall bladder operation.
note: the above was just a cracking attempt to see if I could cause people's brains to overload and shut down.
she should of deep-fried that sausage.