“In a revealing interview, [second wife] Dottie says that John is a disturbing mix of contradictions. A willing prisoner of his notoriety — he recently tried to sell the knife used on him on Ebay — he is also racked by guilt over his treatment of [first wife] Lorena… But when they came to make love, John had a confession to make. A penis enlargement operation had not worked. ‘The first time I saw it I was shocked,’ Dottie says. ‘It looked like a little pig wrapped in a blanket — although the fat was injected all around, the head remained the same size. Presenter Howard Stern had made him this offer to pay for the surgery for a TV show. The irony is that before then he had been proud of his reattached penis. He’d whip it out at every opportunity. It had become public property. The scars from the reattachment were barely visible. But in the enlargement operation, they took fat from his stomach and injected it under the skin. It made it puffy and lumpy and fat. It was pretty disgusting. But that’s John. I mean, who gets their arm cut off and put back on — and then goes and gets more surgery? We made love anyway. I didn’t want to hurt his feelings and say ‘euuugh’, but it was a problem to have sex. I mean, it was not pleasant.’” — Daily Mirror (UK)

This week is the ten-year anniversary of a jury’s decision to find Lorena Bobbitt innocent (by way of temporary insanity) of chopping off her husband John’s penis with a carving knife. And as this article details only too painfully, it’s been a tough decade for the ex-Marine. After getting his penis reattached and appearing in two cheapo porn movies — John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut and Frankenpenis — Mr. Bobbitt spiraled downward from dumb jobs (limo driver for an escort service) to even dumber crimes, seven times getting arrested for charges ranging from assault to grand larceny. Currently he is serving time in prison for violating parole.

The story of John Wayne Bobbit is sordid enough, with its lows of childhood abuse and castration, its momentary high of porn-star fame, then its plunge back into the depths with his career as a two-bit criminal. As you read it — and it makes for very compelling reading — you can’t help but wonder at how people create such fates for themselves. Is he a victim of circumstances? Or of his own stupidity? When second-wife Dottie married Mr. Bobbitt, her mother asked “Why would you want to marry a man without a penis?” And as you read about his life, you also want to add: Why would you want to marry a man without a brain? Or a backbone? Or whatever it is that he’s missing? It’s hard to put your finger on it exactly, but maybe men really do think with their dicks — because Mr. Bobbitt doesn’t appear to have done much good thinking since having had what Howard Stern calls his “crucial head” chopped off.

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