On June 23, 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt was rushed to Prince William Hospital after a very particular phone call for help: the man declared that his wife had castrated him during the night and had run away, taking his member with her.
On June 23, 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt was rushed to Prince William Hospital after a very particular phone call for help: the man declared that his wife had castrated him during the night and had run away, taking his member with her. The woman was Lorena Bobbitt, who in the meantime had taken refuge with a friend, and it was through her statement that the police found the man's penis. In fact, his wife had thrown it out of the window of her car in a field in front of a 7-Eleven. Thanks to a nine-hour operation conducted by Dr. James Sehn, a urologist, and David Berman, a plastic surgeon, they managed to save his life and literally sew his member back together. The story, however, suddenly took on a less dark tone, turning into a real show: the life of the two spouses became public through a trial broadcast entirely on TV. We learn every little detail of the two protagonists' experiences: she, of Ecuadorian origin, married a man and with him the American dream, but...