How does a post-op transexual male's penis work?

Just so you know, “transsexual” and “gay” are not interchangeable, so careful with those topic choices.

Okay. For the most part, the sexual organs aren’t “switched.” People keep their own, sometimes rearranged to fit the new body shape.

The most common way that I’ve heard of for a born-male person to be reconstructed as physically female is for the sensitive bits to be turned inside out and put inside to become a vagina. I understand that there is great success retaining sensory input. In other words, it’s often still fun to have sex after the operation.

For a born-female to be surgically reconstructed as physically male is harder. Some of them do not undergo that sort of surgery at all, but have only a mastectomy. Sometimes, the hormones given to the person can make the clitoris grow – not any six inches or anything, but a large clitoris can resemble a very small penis that can be quite pleasurable to use. Or, alternatively, some tissue may be removed from the thigh area and used to construct a larger penis, but which always remains soft because it doesn’t have the same internal structure as a man’s homegrown penis – but it does fill some of the needs.

I’m not sure which of these answers is the one you were looking for, but I hope that one of them works for you. Usually people would mean a “post-op transexual male” to mean a born-female person who had phalloplasty, but since you are adding some topics that indicate you might be misunderstanding the subject, I included both.

@laureth i thought F2Ms could implant this system to make it hard?

@sliceswiththings – Firstly, answer the question, I mentioned nothing about whatever you said. Secondly, I knew that before you told me. As you have not figured out yet “transexual” is not in the topic list. Go figure why I chose gay. And stop being so sensitive about it.

I would imagine that the procedure of fashioning a penis out of the vagina, labia majora, and labia minora and the clitoris involve a medical device similar to a penile implant to treat total impotence in males. This involves a hand-pumped inflatable set of air-bladders. The pump bulb is located in the tecticles which are fashioned out of the labia.

Surgically, it is much easier to make an “inny” out of an “outy” that vice versa!

If someone knows that any of this is seriously incorrect, please advise all of us of where the facts differ.

@laureth – Thank you, that’s just what I was asking for. Just basically how a male penis on a previous female could operate.

@LeopardGecko Jeez there’s no reason to be rude. I got the impression that you didn’t know that, so I was just filling you in before anyone got offended. There are really nicer ways to tell someone you don’t like their suggestion.

You know, I was just going to ask you the same thing.

@LeopardGecko: ”As you have not figured out yet “transexual” is not in the topic list. Go figure why I chose gay.”

This has me deeply confused, actually. The main question appears to be about FTMs, yet your topics have nothing to do with them. I can’t imagine why you chose the topics you did.

The surgery is called Phalloplasty, in which a basic penis is constructed from existing tissue (not usually the vagina, more often it’s from the abdomen or inner thigh) and it’s “plumbed in”. To function sexually it generally has an implant that’s inflatable.

The truth is, phalloplasty is horrible surgery. There are often very unpleasant complications, the result is neither fully functional nor even aesthetically pleasing. It looks more like a raw sausage than a penis. It’s common to lose all sexual sensation and the ability to orgasm.

There’s an alternative surgery called metoidioplasty (I think thats how it’s spelled) in which the clitoris, which has been enlarged due to hormone therapy, is plumbed in and re-shaped. This results in a fully functional micro-penis, but it’s not generally sufficient for penetrative sex.