These explain how the epidemic rapidly spread not just to Thailand but other Asian countries.
In 2007 in Nanjing China. Yao Fengfang cut off her husband’s penis because she suspected he was cheating on him with his ex-wife.
She threw it out the window where it was eaten by dogs.
http://www.womenofchina.cn/html/report/94105-1.htm
http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina ... 4105-1.htm
Crime Caused by Impulsion in Emotional Crisis
Different from men, women tend to commit crimes when they have conflicts with their lovers.
Procurators working in rural areas of Nanjing admitted that there had been several cases, in which the wife intentionally harmed her husband by cutting off his penis. A procurator on the case said: "Their reasons are simple. The wife could not bear the fact that her husband is gambling or cheating on her. It is a crime of impulsion in an emotional crisis." Li Aijun, director of the public prosecution branch in the Nanjing municipal procuratorate, said: "Women are always vulnerable to harm in a relationship and marriage. It is hard for them to change their situation. So they tend to use an extreme means."
The Gaochun Procuratorate of Nanjing has dealt with several intentional harm cases, in which women committed crimes when they had an emotional crisis. A female defendant killed her husband out of rage, for she failed to talk him out of a relationship and bring him back to their marriage.
Legal Education and Aid
Li Aijun believed that women's crimes caused by impulsion in love conflicts could be avoided, said, "We could improve legal education for them, and establish a social aid system for them, covering psychological guidance, career consultancy and legal aid."
In cases concerning female suspects, 80 percent of the women are charged with a suspended sentence or a sentence less than three years. Sun Xiaozhong, deputy director of the Nanjing Bureau of Justice, said that it is a better choice to sentence women who have committed minor crimes with a non-imprisonment penalty and send them back home. It is for their own good, and society as well.
(Source: chinagate.com.cn- longhoo.net/Translated by womenofchina.cn)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/200 ... 260857.htm
Then there is the periodic news of the "shrew" who cut off her husband's penis out of anger or vengeance. Recently in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, a man was castrated this way.
Strangely, in many of these news stories, the husbands were reported to be nice people who would silently endure all hardship.
http://www.scmp.com/article/537913/unki ... g-husbands
The unkindest cut for cheating husbands
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 25 February, 2006, 12:00am
UPDATED : Saturday, 25 February, 2006, 12:00am
David Marsh
Wives getting back at their cheating, boozing husbands by taking a kitchen knife to their private parts has become an unusual trend in southern Vietnam, local newspapers report.
Lao Dong (The Worker) newspaper said last week there have been seven cases of women severing their husbands' penises in the past year, all within 150km of Ho Chi Minh City.
Eight similar cases were reported in 2004 in the same region.
Newspaper reports say in most cases the wives were exacting revenge for their husbands' extramarital affairs, excessive drinking, violent behaviour, or some combination.
The men's cua quy - 'prized possession' - was successfully reattached in all but three of the 15 cases, reporter Cong Tuan said, although it is unknown how well they functioned after reattachment.
The apparent trend is particularly unusual in Vietnam, where women have traditionally played a docile role and violent crime of any kind is still relatively rare.
It may have been influenced by a series of well-publicised penis attacks in nearby Thailand, which is now said to be the world's leader in penis reattachment surgery.
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RESULTS: From 1973 to 1980, an estimated 100 men had their penises amputated by their wives using kitchen knives while they slept. These men had all engaged in extra-marital affairs. The vast majority of women in Thailand have only one lifetime sexual partner and strongly believe in virginity until marriage and monogamy following their nuptials. Thai people also have a strong belief in honor and these women reported feeling humiliated. Usually, the severed penis was thrown into family-owned animal pens, often under their own home (many Thai homes are on stilts). Many penises were never able to be found, due to destruction by the men’s own animals. For those penises able to be found, the penises were universally contaminated. Additionally, this took place during the 1970’s, during the height of the women’s movement, in which female empowerment was flourishing, and amputation was thought to be an empowering act. The amputations were highly reported in the news, with well-known women encouraging this practice. The details of the attacks were also extensively and graphically reported in the news, giving women strict instructions to replicate the attacks. News of the amputations spread quickly to all classes, making copy cat attacks more wide spread.
CONCLUSIONS: The combination of strict beliefs in sexual monagomy by wives combined with public encouragement of the act of penile amputation for infidelity built an epidemic of penile amputation in Thailand. Women publicly encouraging and inciting other scorned women to commit this act worsened the epidemic. The vast majority of worldwide reports of penile replantation, to this day, are a result of what became a trendy form of retribution in a country in which fidelity is a strongly appreciated value.