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Egyptian Man Cuts Off Penis for Love
By SARAH EL DEEB/AP

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.

What a helpless romantic. He really ruined it for the rest of us. I mean Van Gogh cut his ear off for his girl but so what? You've got two ears plus the ear bandage may have gotten him some strange. He could always say a bear ripped it off or something. But there's no coming back from cutting your penis off. John Bobbitt got his back but I bet it was never the same. At any rate, it gives new meaning to 'Walk Like An Egyptian!' BOOM!