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Has anyone ever been documented to have been born with two or more penises or vaginas? I know this sounds really lowbrow, but it's not meant to be funny, I'm just curious. Hermaphrodites don't count because they are a third gender and have both parts. Certainly eventually this kind of thing could be engineered. Genetics is going to be amazing!:) But can such a thing happen naturally, given the genetics of humans? What kind of genetic hiccup could cause such a thing?
 
You spend a lot of time thinking these things up? Oh, wait. We all do, don't we?

Okay, I'll let the serious answers in, now...
 
For certian species it is standard.
 
Heh, a German biker who lost his original one in an accident had another one added with plastic surgery and fathered a child with it, but then decided he didn't like it and had a third one put in its place; the doctors left the second one in place while they waited to see if the grafts were going to take. Unfortunately, when he showed his wife from his hospital bed, she went home and packed her bags.

Quoting from Ananova,
From his hospital bed he said: "I've got two penises but no wife, but I am hoping when I get rid of one of the penises I will get her back."

The gentleman (men? heh) apparently allowed a crew to film the operation and make a documentary of it named The Last Penis.

Then there is the story of the doctor named Wecker who discovered the corpse of a man in Bologna in 1609 who had two penises; this is the first of over eighty documented cases, according to "The Penis Page," on the naughtythings site.

And from the gnarly department, a baby born with three legs, two penises and no anus. Warning, the first hit is from Ogrish, which is not a site recommended for the squeamish. I didn't look, not really needing any new nightmare material. =8o

Hopefully this is within the guidelines for the site; I have tried to avoid puns on the rather obvious profanities, and stick with the facts in answer to the rather unusual request for information. Please let me know if I am creating a problem here; it's not my intent, and I'll edit as necessary to conform without argument.
 
The OP has me wondering if "midline"structures on the body are built by one genetic process or two. Obvious examples are the penis and the nose. If these are built in two halves, then "glued together" at some stage of embryonic development, an error would be more likely to produce half a nose than two noses. Are single nostril noses common?
Hypospadias is a fairly common condition, where the urethral tube has not developed at the same rate as the rest of the penis, so the urethral opening is not at the end of the penis, but at some point along the shaft.
I have wondered what happens if the opposite occurs, and the urethra grows faster than the rest of the penis. Some sort of blunderbuss?
Embryological development is seriously strange.
 
Schneibster said:
And from the gnarly department, a baby born with three legs, two penises and no anus.
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If this baby grew up, got in a sword fight and got his head chopped off he'd look like a Pierson's Puppeteer. What, with two heads, three legs and all.
 
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Soapy Sam said:
The OP has me wondering if "midline"structures on the body are built by one genetic process or two. Obvious examples are the penis and the nose. If these are built in two halves, then "glued together" at some stage of embryonic development, an error would be more likely to produce half a nose than two noses. Are single nostril noses common?
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I certainly have met a couple people with slight furrow down their noses. Looked like the two halves didn't quite come together. I'm sure anything worse would be a simple plastic surgery fix.

Don't embryos grow from the spinal column out and around? Cleft palate and hare lips are more common "final knitting together" problems, along with spinal bifuda? Spinal bifuda is where the back bones don't knit together where they encompass the neural tube. Hmmmm, maybe the late addition of f_______ ( a new B vitamin)to bread products will eliminate these cosmetic things as well as the spinal bifuda?

And on a side track, anybody else notice more pop-ups since the 'upgrade'?
 
Doubled vaginas and uterii do occur - look up "uterus didelphys". But, like doubled penii, it's due to a developmental disorder, not genetics.
BTW, the term "hermaphrodite" isn't used nowadays - it's now "Intersexuality", and has a wide variety of causes and manifestations.
 
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There is a cascade of reactions during embryonic development which determine a person's symmetry. Interestingly, with facial symmetry the protein dubbed 'sonic hedghog' is key to the wideness of the face. Too little, and the face ends up narrow (cyclopian). Too much, and it's possible for two faces to form (Janus condition). Similar development can occur elsewhere in the body, although I'm not certain that sonic hedgehog protein is responsible for this.

Athon
 
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