Sorta like cutting off your nose to spite your face?

[A Desert Rose]

Egyptian man cuts off penis to avoid marriage

Qena, Egypt - An Egyptian cut off his own penis on Sunday in protest at his parents' choice of bride, a police official said.

The 25-year-old labourer from the village of Sheikh Eissa in southern Egypt was taken to hospital in stable condition, the official said, adding that the man had also mutilated his testicles.

"He was in love with a woman but his parents rejected her and told him to marry another woman he didn't want. He took a knife and cut off his penis in his room."

Doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added. - Sapa-AFP

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20090531133251497C319920

Boy howdy... I got nothin' to say to this one.


This was also an APwire story, so I know it's real.

 

[graceanne]

 

[A Desert Rose]

I see you're speechless too.

 

[lass714]

Egyptian man cuts off penis to avoid marriage

Qena, Egypt - An Egyptian cut off his own penis on Sunday in protest at his parents' choice of bride, a police official said.

The 25-year-old labourer from the village of Sheikh Eissa in southern Egypt was taken to hospital in stable condition, the official said, adding that the man had also mutilated his testicles.

"He was in love with a woman but his parents rejected her and told him to marry another woman he didn't want. He took a knife and cut off his penis in his room."

Doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added. - Sapa-AFP

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw20090531133251497C319920

Boy howdy... I got nothin' to say to this one.


This was also an APwire story, so I know it's real.

Hmmmm I guess he didn't logically consider the ramifications of his actions.....no sex and peeing through a tube. Yep he really showed his parents didn't he!

 

[graceanne]

I see you're speechless too.

Do you know how hard it is to make me speechless?

But . . . there are no words. *shakes head*

 

[graceanne]

I sent this link to Betticus (who's computer isn't working and is emailing me from work) and he said,

"Welp.. at least this one took himself out of the gene pool."

I couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[A Desert Rose]

Hmmmm I guess he didn't logically consider the ramifications of his actions.....no sex and peeing through a tube. Yep he really showed his parents didn't he!

Jesus... really. The things people do.

 

[Essene]

Just to throw out another perspective - I read about this on Yahooo news. Apparently and supposedly in that particular area of Egypt where he lives, people rarely marry for love - it's usually more of a political or caste thing.

I guess if you saw your parents denying you the love of your life, and you wanted to really get them where it counts, is to deny them the opportunity to marry you off like chattel; and treat you as if your only purpose in life is to provide them grandchildren.

He petitioned his father for two years. He was desperate and in love.

It could be seen as brash, desperate, and even poetic.

 

[Netzach]

Now that's romantic.

 

[myinnerslut]

i wonder how his true love felt about all of this

 

[midwestyankee]

Now that's romantic.

So does anyone think that this will replace the Vincent van Gogh ear mutilation story as the world's benchmark self-mutilation-for-love story?

 

[Netzach]

So does anyone think that this will replace the Vincent van Gogh ear mutilation story as the world's benchmark self-mutilation-for-love story?

Actually they're positing that this may have been the result of a fight with Gaugin, mixed with the crazy.

 

[midwestyankee]

Actually they're positing that this may have been the result of a fight with Gaugin, mixed with the crazy.

You and your art history knowledge are ruining my made-for-tv story line. Go away and get us that picture of your balls for the other thread, will ya?

 

[Netzach]

You and your art history knowledge are ruining my made-for-tv story line. Go away and get us that picture of your balls for the other thread, will ya?

Dude, I think that's a better storyline, don't you?

Expert swordsman tees off with Vincent over chick? He loses, makes up a story that sounds better when he mails in an ear?

 

[midwestyankee]

Dude, I think that's a better storyline, don't you?

Expert swordsman tees off with Vincent over chick? He loses, makes up a story that sounds better when he mails in an ear?

Only in a culture that does not look up to Porkys II as a high water mark.

 

[Keroin]

Betcha he's not afraid of roaches.

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

Betcha he's not afraid of roaches.

ROFL!

 

[ZRT]

Betcha he's not afraid of roaches.

Yeah, I'm in awe of this fine specimen of manhood.

Though not so awed by his remaining manly attributes, I think.

 

[graceanne]

i wonder how his true love felt about all of this

I was kinda wondering about that. I mean, he just messed up her chances of having children if they were to ever get together.

 

[Essene]

Now that's romantic.

Baby, I'd do it for you.

 

[Vixandra]

On the bright side, he won't be breeding.

On the brighter side, least he didn't kill or harm the woman his parents wanted him to marry.

On the blindingly brightest side..... I got nothing.

 

[DVS]

I'll just say OUCH!

Yeah, I'm in awe of this fine specimen of manhood.

Though not so awed by his remaining manly attributes, I think.

If I read the story correctly, didn't he cut off his fine specimen of manhood? So, unless they saved it to put in some museum as a phallic symbol of Egyptian love sickness or a trophy for rebelling against martyrdom marriages, that manhood is either in the trash or ground up as dog food.

As to what his true love interest might have thought of his most unfriendliest cut of all...she's probably OK with it, as long as he keeps her in a good supply of batteries.

And he's not totally out of the gene pool just yet. I can see his parents telling him, "you're not going to take our grandchildren from us that easily!" They'll pay some high class doctor some high class cash to surgically make it happen.

All they need from him is a couple of those little tadpoles. I'm sure they could probably come up with at least a couple, unless he did a total slice and dice on his testicles, too. Even with precise aim, the chances are he only got to one before the horrific pain got the best of him. Maybe one of those little buggers was spared?

 

[ZRT]

If I read the story correctly, didn't he cut off his fine specimen of manhood? So, unless they saved it to put in some museum as a phallic symbol of Egyptian love sickness or a trophy for rebelling against martyrdom marriages, that manhood is either in the trash or ground up as dog food.

Depends on if you consider the member to be the 'manhood'. I tend to include the jewels in that package, so in that case he only severed one-third of his manhood. Hence 'remaining attributes'.

And I bet they're the size of WATERMELONS.

 

[Harmony_1985]

He probably presented it to his love in a box to show his love for her.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

He probably presented it to his love in a box to show his love for her.

She'd have probably preferred he present it to her in her box.