Transplanting hands, faces, and … what?

I love John Woo’s Face/Off (1997), but one of the things I’ve always nitpicked is how a man could trick a woman into thinking she was sleeping with her husband, just by surgically altering his face. Wouldn’t there be, um, other things she might notice?

Today, The Guardian suggests one way this trick might have been pulled off. And not surprisingly, just as the first person who received a hand transplant went on to have an identity crisis and to ask that the hand be amputated, so here the transplanted, er, organ had to be removed even though the surgery was apparently a success.

This story may also have bizarre ramifications for those who accept the Christian belief that sex makes two people “one flesh“.