Egyptian Cuts Off His Own Penis After He Was Refused Permission To Marry Girl From Lower-Class Family

CAIRO — A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday.

After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official.

The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena, one of Egypt's poorest and most conservative areas that is also home to the famed ancient Egyptian ruins of Luxor.

The man was rushed to the hospital but doctors were unable to reattach the severed member, the official added citing the police report filed after the incident.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the press, added that the man was still recovering in the hospital.

Traditionally, marriages in these conservative part of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families _ and are rarely for love.

Comments

[factotem]

Well that solved everything. The march of human idiocy is proceeding right on schedule.

[nocoward]

i will do anyythng for love, I'll run into hell and back. I will do anything for love but I won't do that.

[Saidas]

Darwanism in action. Our species does not need that gene pool to continue.

[hartkid]

Story I read in the Egyptian paper's said the guy had two of them, so it really wasn't that big a deal. He has his auxilliary unit as a back up.

[theillusion]

So after his parents feel guilty enough to let him marry the girl, she'll leave him or refuse after she realizes that all the stuff he whispered in her ear would never happen.

[Macready]

poor guy . . . I really feel sorry for him . . I wish he would have just broken with his family . . . now they will be around his neck forever . . .

[formerprosecutor]

And they say my people are drama junkies. The Drama Cup goes to Lower Egypt!

[iluvsam]

I wish the anti-gay marriage group in America would understand that THIS is the despair that some people go through when they can't marry the people they love.

[AdamX]

Amazing just how falacious your argument is!

[noudidnt]

If the pro-gay marriage folks start doing this en masse, I'll start to think about supporting them.

[MajorKong]

At what point did THAT start to seem like a good idea?

[brooklyncitizen]

Ouch....I'­m wincing and and I'm a girl.

[CitizenIndie]

Well, at least he can still do invitro. As long as he didn't chop the orbs with it.

[futate01]

boy is he gonna regret this one...

[Outofnowhere]

Probably shouldn't laugh, but can't help it.

[hilaritee]

i wish i could joke about this but the idea that this man felt so desperate, due to social and familial expectations, that he felt compelled to mutilate himself permanently is beyond tragic

[Retrofuturistic]

Families and religion--- both are guaranteed to screw you up.

[NewYorkStateofMind]

he might regret this decision