South Africa Is Penis Nuts, Doctors Without Borders Ain’t Helping

South Africa is the underrated fucked up country of the many nations of this world. Maybe because they have just enough rich people with connections to keep the lid on all the messed up shit. Like Orange County. Doctors in Cape Town just performed the first successful penis transplant surgery on a 21-year old. South Africa needs such a surgery because so many young men in the country are having their dicks amputated as teenagers due to complications from a popular practice they call ‘traditional circumcision’. If you thought traditional circumcision was a kindly old Jewish dude snipping an eight year old baby of his foreskin, think again. In South Africa it refers to the numerous ‘initiation schools’ in the provinces sponsored by the government and Doctors Without Borders to decrease the future transmission rates of The AIDS. The schools are really Eli Roth movie horror camps run by local authorities where boys are rounded up to have their cocks sliced. Like poor fucking Steve:

Steve [16] was circumcised by a traditional practitioner soon after arriving at the school. No anaesthetic was administered; bearing the pain of the cutting is considered vital to the process of becoming a man. A disposable blade was used, but the wound was not bandaged; the only protection against infection was the application of some traditional medicine.

A ton of these kids get nasty cock infections. They’re told not to let real nurses see it. Rub some dirt on it and walk it off. Eventually, the infection consumes the entirety of their junk and they require amputation in a hospital. There seems to be a lack of dispersement of medical knowledge in South Africa. In the city center you’ve got doctors performing state of the art penis microsurgeries. Twenty miles away you’ve got shamans with Gillette cartridges and a can of dingy water taking stipends to save the world from The AIDS by slicing up male organs. I’ve just changed my summer travel plans. Suddenly Syria seems much modern. In either place, you do not want to get on the wrong bus.

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