flanerie.org

In a “landmark development” researchers have created an “artificial penis” that has allowed rabbits with damaged penises to successfully mate. The urologists say that the procedure might one day help treat men with severe erectile dysfunction.

The technique involves a new method of tissue-engineering which enabled the team to use the animals' own cells to build the spongy tissue structure that makes up the bulk of the penis.

The functioning penises were the latest achievement of Anthony Atala and colleagues at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US. This is the same team that hit the headlines in April with the first bio-engineered human bladders which were successfully implanted into patients.

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I am not convinced that rabbits need the help - rabbits breed, as you might expect, like rabbits. But now I think of it, I have never seen rabbits getting jiggy. I have seen plenty of rabbits, I see them most mornings but they are eating, and not each other.

Maybe there is more rabbity sexual dysfunction that has previously been apparent.

Perhaps the childless ones are better off though - they can go on foreign holidays while the functional ones have to settle for camping with their 200 kids.

This is a complex issues and we need to think, THINK before we go inventing artificial rabbit schlongs.