Penis hacking

[Brewmaniac]

I realize this is old news but I missed it, if this is common you would have to be absolutely crazy to cheat!

Shit I think I'd have steal mesh undies with a padlock just to be safe! No more Camando...

Have you heard of this? Was a big deal made of it in the media?

http://www.news24.com/News24/Enterta...553849,00.html

Penis hacking all the rage
07/07/2004 11:01 - (SA)

Bangkok - They have been boiled, fed to ducks, even attached to hot air balloons and cast into the night sky - when it comes to permanently depriving a cheating lover of a recently severed penis, the imagination of the wronged Thai woman knows few bounds.

Thailand has become the world centre of penis reattachment surgery, but then it has been forced to be. While not unique to the kingdom, penis severing has been honed here to its most devastating effect through a mixture of infidelity, assertive womanhood and a national cuisine that lends itself to a kitchen full of sharp knives.

The men are now fearful of a rash of Thailand's most notorious crime of passion, according to the surgeon who has stitched back many a male member for grateful patients.

Sitting in his office at Bangkok's Paolo Memorial Hospital, surgeon Surasak Muangsombot recalled how he re-attached his first phallus in 1978 and soon discovered that penis hacking was a peculiarly Thai form of sexual violence.

Since then Sweden has had three cases, the US two - including the notorious case of John Wayne Bobbitt who returned from surgery to star in porn films - and one in Australia.

In the same period, Muangsombot's team alone has operated on 33 cases and many more have been reported.

Tradition of polygamy

Doctors and psychologists blame the attacks on a mix of Thailand's tradition of polygamy, which was banned about 100 years ago but still persists, and the fact that the phallus is revered as a symbol of power and fertility.

The phenomenon has become so widespread that doctors have had to keep up with increasingly inventive and angry wives and lovers who want to prevent the offending item from being reattached.

The latest case was reported on Tuesday when a 29-year-old farmer in northeastern Thailand was admitted to hospital with a severed penis, claiming that his wife kicked him.

The couple had fought, she then denied his requests for sex and kicked him when he complained, according to him. Such was the length of her toe nails, she severed his penis.

Thai psychologist and media commentator Doctor Wallop Piyamanotham said the practice stemmed primarily from the outlawed, but flourishing, Thai habit of keeping secret wives.

"Before a man could have many wives but later we followed the western law of one man one wife, but men still act the same and have many wives so the only revenge open to the wife is to cut off his penis," Piyamanotham said.

Doctor Muangsombot said despite the damage done to patients, the recovery rate is surprisingly high.

He said it was now possible to make replacement penises from arteries and skin taken from other parts of the body that could be inflated with pumps, but warned men who insist on being unfaithful to follow a few golden rules.

"If you have a mistress they (wives) will get mad and cut it any time, so make her very happy, always carry a thermos to put it in and keep the name of a good doctor close by," he said.

[Willravel]

*crosses legs*

[Brewmaniac]

I'm with ya, Will!

[Jetée]

It is a culture that is familiar with the adage of "if the punishment befits the crime".


I heard a remark not long ago from a female acquaintance who, when asked what she would do if she ever caught her boyfriend cheating on her, she said... well, you probably know the answer she offered. The thing that striked me though was another person's retort to her comment, something like: "You sound so asian... I, mean, with the whole penis-chopping remark..."

Where as in some cultures if you get caught cheating, it is the three lashes and the barracks, or perhaps a flogging and a chastity belt, but it would seem as though in the East, there is little room for mercy when it comes to 'poor little john'.

[xepherys]

ouch...

[Push-Pull]

And you guys thought my getting a prince albert was crazy.

What they really need is a detachable penis, ala Sam Kinison. Now there's an idea for a thread!

[loganmule]

Last time I checked, it took two people to have intercourse...is there some counterpart female mutilation of genitalia in these instances, or is it just the men who are the bad guys? I'm reminded of Chris Rock's comment that men can stop chasing pussy (with proper conditioning) but will never be able to outrun it...the cost of tripping while pussy is chasing you has just gone WAY up, if this Thai practise catches on.

[World's King]

In America if you cheat on your, most of the time, all you get is a high five from your friends and free beer.