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

[robXdion]

That's just incredibly insane. Dude wasn't wrapped too tight. With his resource he could've easily just eloped his lady out of the country and disowned his family if need be.

[Outofnowhere]

That's what I'm thinking.

[darker]

You are wrong. It is easier "said" than done.
Egypt is NOT America!

[zius]

wh..why?..why did you do this man ?..your father could have changed his mind you know...yikes !

[BowZam03]

Wow. I've heard of cutting off your nose to spite your face, but never your d*ck to spite your parents...

[Khirad]

Beat me to it, also: "And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell." - Matthew 5:30. One of the early fathers of the Christian Church, Origen, castrated himself.

[brummie]

LMAO

[nocoward]

lol

[brandnewstuff]

As I stated earlier one of my very first loves was egpytianEmmanuel Shanuda he killed himself his family so strict I guess the pressure from not feeling worthy enough by his dad-

The worse people who tried to keep this from me to not hurt me- which was worse

Families can't force people to be who they are not. I still have shock over this lost of a love- I wish he would have had a long happy life with children-Emmanuel was a beautiful and intelligent man

[thankulord13]

Boy that had to hurt!

[walisi]

The point may have been not to teach his parents a lesson, but to make himself unmarriageable but all to the lower class. IOW, it would force his parents to consent to the marriage because no one else would ever agree to marry him.

Sad that it had to come to that...

[UncleJimbo]

Why is this same story listed twice....I hope he didn't take two wacks at it!

[plaidsportcoat]

Add that to the ruins of Luxor, I guess.

[LMPE]

A little extreme, don't you think?

[Knowledgeseeker]

for love you do anything.

[punkindmb]

That'll show his parents!

[loki]

Guess he showed them.. What a real smart feller this guy is.

[TwoSpirits]

Think he'll make Honorable Mention for next year's Darwin Awards?

[GOBLOX]

wow!

[tbirdalum]

Vincent Van Gogh, you have been one-upped. Wanted to retain the ability to hear people say how stupid he was. Dam, Vince, look at what you could have cut off.

[dogman44]

"The things we do for love."

[pghnappyrhino]

no you DIDN'T go there with the 10cc reference?!?!?!

there might be 3 of us who got that one. GOOD ONE!!!

[Ricardo Valentin]

It is easy to conclude that the fact that this young man resorted to this appalling act of self mutilation as a response to an unfulfilled love is a sign mental illness or of a backward tribal mentality. But we should not forget that people in deeply in love all over the world have been known to act in utterly insane ways without regard to culture, social class or level of education. Remember the US female astrounat weird plot to kill its rival for the love of another astronaut?