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Family axes wedding plans, Egyptian cuts off penis
By The Associated Press
Tags: Israel news, Egypt, penis

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.
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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 parts of southern Egypt are between similar social classes and often within the same extended families - and are rarely for love.
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  1.   ouch! 09:10  |  don 01/06/09
  2.   Ouch..yes. At least he heated the knife. 12:34  |  Stephen. 01/06/09
  3.   25 years old........ 13:35  |  Lynn 01/06/09
  4.   Parents have no right to restrict children`s marriage!!! 14:30  |  Sarah Howard 01/06/09
  5.   Egypt also rejected normal ties between Arabs and Israel 15:15  |  Realist 01/06/09
  6.   Re# 4 I do very much agree... 21:32  |  Ines 01/06/09
  7.   The least rational thing 23:06  |  Allen 01/06/09
  8.   Love is a strange thing. I am sorry for the guy 08:40  |  Yaakov Sullivan 02/06/09
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