[The Castration Sonata] on the first woman in popular culture to "Bobbitt" a lover
It is the greatest nightmare any man can ever hope never to bare; and that is the act of castration. Americans specifically are all aware of the name of Lorena Bobbitt, the Ecuadorian-born woman who married a man named John Bobbitt once immigrating into the United States. After continuous sexual assaults against her, Lorena, having allegedly been traumatized and terrified of her husband, who was cleared of sexual assault charges against her in 1993, waited for him to fall into a deep sleep and on the night of June 23, 1993, severed his penis off. Lorena was forced by the responding authorities to recover the penis, which, fortunately (not really fortunate) clean margins of cut allowed surgeons to reattach John’s penis. Lorena was found not guilty by reason of mental disease and defect after numerous testimonies on John’s ongoing domestic ...
