Family axes wedding, Egyptian cuts off organ

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.

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[Green smiley face with one eye shut and other eye protruding out. Pink tongue stick out]

Arranged marriages are a thing of the past. People should marry who they want to.

Ouch - That poor fella had to do this in spite of the family.

I agree, Arranged marriage should not have to happen. Unfortunately in some areas, it still does exist.

How noble. :roll:

manipulating... or insane???

Obviously he was so in love with this lady that he gave up sex for the rest of his life...ohhh wait a min, he cant have sex with he lady he loves! Should she be happy or pissed as hell that he lost his joystick?

shel90 said:

Obviously he was so in love with this lady that he gave up sex for the rest of his life...ohhh wait a min, he cant have sex witht he lady he loves! Should she be happy or pissed as hell that he lost his joystick?

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More like she is pissed that she lost "Her" Joy stick... Perhaps he will have to wear a strap for now on, to please her.

I pretty much feel he did it to punish his parents..... DANG! Heck of a way to do so. Seems like he will suffer more than his parents ever will.

Sounds like caste system and I didn't know that they married according to social status in Egypt. India, yes but not Egypt.

I think the guy must have been really mentally ill to take such a drastic endeavour on himself.....

Trying to "punish" his parents by cutting his dick off? Don't make sense. I would have just left and married the girl anyhow. But I don't know the laws in Egypt....