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The Total Package: an interesting article contrasting the experience of acquiring a packer vs acquiring an arm prosthetic, and also a bit of transhumanism.

The designs of hyperrealistic prosthetics—whether they’re arms or cocks—originate from a premise of lack. Dysphoria is the overwhelming, bodily experience of that lack. The quest for the bionic penis is predicated on providing that missing piece; it may mean the universe for countless people out there yearning to fill that hole. But in every quest to recreate the human body, there’s another opportunity to make something new.