In a sheer obedience of the Biblical injunction that one should cut off any part of the body that leads him to sin, a 52-year-old man has severed his penis with an electric carving knife to stop masturbation.
Jonas Etcher’s mother, Ellen Etcher, called paramedics and police to his mobile home at Augusta Georgia in the night of Tuesday, July 28, 2015 after the incident.
Doctors normally would have attempted to reattach the penis but Etcher had thrown his dismembered penis to a neighbor dog who had eaten most of it.
His mum said, “He’s really been struggling with masturbation. He knows it’s against Jesus, but has been self-pleasuring up to a dozen times a day. He can’t seem to find a girl to get his sex urges out on… we’ve tried Match.com, Craigslist.”
Etcher feared that he would go to hell if he didn’t stop masturbating, so he decided to go extreme by cutting off what he called his “sinful part.”
His mum added, “I had told him that maybe we could have had somebody build a metal glove with razor sharp spikes on the palm and fingers that could have been permanently padlocked to his penis and prevented him from masturbating.
“But he said that would have “been itchy.” So I guess he thought sawing his thing off was the better solution. I am proud of him from trying to lead a life of purity, but now he’s going to have to go on disability as he won’t be able to work at Applebee’s while he recovers.”
Doctors said he will make a full recovery but will now be required to wear a catheter and urine bag.
This is not the first time a man would be cutting off his manhood for one sick reason or another.
Last year, an ardent member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God had cut off his penis so he would concentrate on a 21-day fasting programme organised by his church.
Another man had also severed his penis and flushed it down the toilet so he would starve his girlfriend of sex after they had some squabble.
