Quote Originally Posted by deighaingeal View Post
Sadly, with current laws, it would be difficult to make a new human skin strop. Also, I would suggest that the back of a slightly portly woman would actually be the best.
Luckily pig leather is very similar to the many aspects of human and is in much greater abundance in the sense of commercial production.
Just some thoughts...

True. My cousin suffered burns to 70% of his body and lived. He made the centerfold of Life magazne that year. The Doctor's wound up using pig skin to graft to his body. He didn't have enough of his own.
I remember it well. It was 1981 and he was in the same hospital as the Shah of Iran. There was security up the butt.