Youth castrates self over broken engagement
RADHA SHARMA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
[ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2005 09:34:16 PM AHMEDABAD: In a shocking incident, a 22-year-old youth of Ahmedabad district castrated himself earlier this week to do away with the root cause of his sexual frustration! Bachu Mafabhai, a resident of Sadatpura in Detroj town, chopped off his penis with a sharp blade on Tuesday morning, which according to his own confession, was to get rid himself of the root cause of his unfulfilled sexual desires that were making life miserable for him.
"I could not sleep for nights on end, I would just keep tossing and turning in bed," Bachu, who had a broken wedding engagement four years ago, told TNN.
To escape the daily misery unleashed by his unfulfilled desires, Bachu chopped off his sexual organ and buried it near his home.
"Luckily,my wife saw him burying something and saw a stream of blood flowing from his clothes. On knowing what had happened, we immediately recovered his organ and shifted him to a hospital," Naran, who is Bachu's elder brother, told TNN.
Naran said that Bachu had been showing a deviant behaviour after his marriage engagement was called off because of his drinking problem. "It is difficult to get girls for marriage in our region, as brides come for a price. There are many boys like Bachu who want to get married but are not able to find girls. It is a big problem."
Meanwhile, doctors at the Civil Hospital have successfully put the severed sexual organ back in place with the help of micro-surgery.
"Luckily, the blade used was sharp and the cut was clean. We have successfully put the organ back by joining one artery and two vessels," Dr Ayappan Pillai, senior plastic surgeon, said.
"We do get cases of men with severed sexual organs, on and off, but this kind of self-amputation is rare. This boy's case is apparently a case of extreme sexual frustration manifesting in a bizarre way," Dr Naeem Sheikh, head of the plastic surgery department, said. Dr Sheikh had also referred the boy to the psychiatric department.
Experts say that persons like Bachu are left to fight a lone battle without any proper guidance and exposure to sex education. "At the core of the problem lies the fact that while children and youths are getting exposed to sexual temptations at a very early age, the marriage age is going up. This has led to a whole range of sex-related problems amongst youths," Dr Laxman Malodiya, director of Ahmedabad AIDS Control Society, says.
"There is a grave need to address the youths, especially the uneducated ones, who suffer due to ignorance and myths. This fellow could have resorted to masturbation, but there is a stigma surrounding the same, and the myth that it strips the males of their potency. All this has to change," Dr Malodiya said.
RADHA SHARMA
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
"I could not sleep for nights on end, I would just keep tossing and turning in bed," Bachu, who had a broken wedding engagement four years ago, told TNN.
To escape the daily misery unleashed by his unfulfilled desires, Bachu chopped off his sexual organ and buried it near his home.
"Luckily,my wife saw him burying something and saw a stream of blood flowing from his clothes. On knowing what had happened, we immediately recovered his organ and shifted him to a hospital," Naran, who is Bachu's elder brother, told TNN.
Naran said that Bachu had been showing a deviant behaviour after his marriage engagement was called off because of his drinking problem. "It is difficult to get girls for marriage in our region, as brides come for a price. There are many boys like Bachu who want to get married but are not able to find girls. It is a big problem."
Meanwhile, doctors at the Civil Hospital have successfully put the severed sexual organ back in place with the help of micro-surgery.
"Luckily, the blade used was sharp and the cut was clean. We have successfully put the organ back by joining one artery and two vessels," Dr Ayappan Pillai, senior plastic surgeon, said.
"We do get cases of men with severed sexual organs, on and off, but this kind of self-amputation is rare. This boy's case is apparently a case of extreme sexual frustration manifesting in a bizarre way," Dr Naeem Sheikh, head of the plastic surgery department, said. Dr Sheikh had also referred the boy to the psychiatric department.
Experts say that persons like Bachu are left to fight a lone battle without any proper guidance and exposure to sex education. "At the core of the problem lies the fact that while children and youths are getting exposed to sexual temptations at a very early age, the marriage age is going up. This has led to a whole range of sex-related problems amongst youths," Dr Laxman Malodiya, director of Ahmedabad AIDS Control Society, says.
"There is a grave need to address the youths, especially the uneducated ones, who suffer due to ignorance and myths. This fellow could have resorted to masturbation, but there is a stigma surrounding the same, and the myth that it strips the males of their potency. All this has to change," Dr Malodiya said.
