You did. That's exactly what you read.
I have serious doubts about this whole thing.
Once again the fucking Build a Bear mentality.
These fucking lunatics are like Haemonculi, but without the tech. You can't just pull nerve clusters from here, and skin grafts from there, and stitch it all together with the lining from the inside of your fucking cheek and have it "just work".
You are not Todd Howard, faggot, and your experimental surgery is going to hold together about as well as the fucking Creation Engine does.
These lunatics fuck up a perfectly good body part and try to fix it by fucking another part from somewhere else.
Dr Frankenstein himself would sit these guys down like Chris Hansen and talk to them about his concerns for their sanity.
They 're seriously fucking deranged, and they're getting taken advantage of by lunatics who only see them as a next paycheck or chance to publish a paper.
There are people that have to get physical therapy after losing their pinky toe or finger. Virtually every body part, even the ones that people can adapt easier from losing like the gallbladder, has a purpose. Crippling a wrist for something that will fall off and die again is pure insanity. People have two hands for a reason. This dude was probably used to typing with one hand pre op, but I doubt he was putting on shirts or opening chip bags the same way. The body can only adapt to some real fuckery to a point.
(Also, considering that the novel is literally a dying Victor recounting to a ship crew how much he fucked up by playing God, I’m really loving the mental image of a modern day Victor playing Chris Hanson to a bunch of butchers or Jeanette Jennings types.
“Hello, Dr Gallagher, I’m Victor Frankenstein from Dateline NBC! We’re doing a story about surgeons that groom underage girls for unnecessary surgeries on phone apps! How about you sit here for a moment and we talk?”)
If it looks this bad now, I wonder what is going to look like as these people hit their senior years. Those "growths" under her armpits might start sagging like deflated skin-balloons.
With the sheer amount of fibrotic tissue that this surgery has caused on her torso, there is no way that "revision" can fix this and not have it look like an autopsy scar.
The thing is, most of them barely make it to middle age, let alone senior. Now that AIDS isn’t killing gays en masse it’s a lot easier to see older gay (and lesbian couples). Meanwhile Buck Angel is old for a transitioning troon (since I just remembered that Buck did just about everything but bottom surgeries). There are troons that have aged enough to develop dementia and ask techs what happened to their dicks, but I was under the impression that they got the chop around middle age?
These younger ones are far more likely to 41% sooner since they destroyed their bodies and quality of life earlier. Someone like Gruffin or this pooner is going to have a brief, painful life when just leaving their bodies alone would’ve ironically given them longer, maybe even happier, lifespans. Depression and low body image may suck, but being able to pee is a huge plus.
What the fuck is the point of moving the nerves? So trying to jerk off feels like rubbing your wrist? Just rub your crotch with your wrist and save the money.
A lot of butchers claim that they will perform “nerve hookup” on the troons after irreparably damaging them by cutting them up. Like as if they can magically dice up the crotch again and boom, troon will get the mind blowing orgasms they were promised if they mangled their body so. Just more of the treating their bodies like a customizable video game character mentality, only apply it to sensation. “My brain will no longer think it’s wrist flesh, if you put that between my legs it’ll register like a clit!”
It’s a good grift on the butcher’s part, not gonna lie. Troons are so ignorant of basic biology that they get confused at basic anatomy that they claim they should’ve had. Things like how nerves work are beyond them if they keep dilating their urethras or asking what that nub on top of their rotpocket is supposed to be with alarming regularity.