# How easy is it to cut off a human penis on an unwilling individual? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 21, 2015, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085 "2015-09-21T08:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/21 "2015-09-21T14:41:35Z")
> [@grude](#): > > pulling it taunt > [@grude](#): > > Pulled it taunt OT, but this begs for correction (and the question has been well answered by others, anyway). [Taut](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/taut). Pull taut. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/22 "2015-09-21T15:11:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m assuming most such crimes happen while the victim is passed out dead drunk. A quick grab and a quick slice with a basic knife and the deed is easily done. > > Part of the problem with amateurs cutting raw meat is holding it still. It takes 2 hands to stabilize the two sides, then one more hand to operate the knife. > > Slicing a penis is easier since the dead weight of the rest of the unconscious body holds one end. Slicing anything under tension is much much easier. You are probably right, but you have a third hand? Damn I feel cheated! I didn’t see how pulling the penis tight enough wouldn’t instantly jolt you awake, but pass out drunk would do it. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/23 "2015-09-21T15:13:26Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > OT, but this begs for correction (and the question has been well answered by others, anyway). [Taut](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/taut). Pull taut. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/24 "2015-09-21T15:20:47Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Ah, the sort of thread a man likes to read in the morning to start off on a positive note for the day… > > Exercise bands are a much tougher material than live human penis, **grude** (BTW score one against the Intelligent Design theory to have our Most Valuable Players be fragile and hanging unshielded). You can cut off a finger being careless in the kitchen, and those have _bones_. > > One point about severing anything with a blade, you don’t hack absolutely perpendicularly, you put some _slicing_ motion into the strike for maximum efficiency (thus angled guillotines). > > Now where’s a thread about brain eating amoebas, I need more lighthearted reading… I was using a slicing motion, and the exercise band might if anything be easier to cut than a penis. My sticking point was how fast it has to be, we’re talking split second for the tug and cut unless the guy is black out drunk or high. I assume man accuses wife of lacerating penis or man comes to hospital with a partially severed penis and claims accident out of shame don’t make international news though. You would not want to watch movies or TV with me, unrealistic violence drives me batty unless the media is clearly action movie fantasy. I was recently watching the show Rome which strove for historical authenticity in the setting seemingly, then comes a gladiator scene where heads and limbs are cleanly cleaved and flying in one motion with a swing of a dull looking sword that had all the heft of yard raking.:mad: Some morbid and depressing research on youtube or liveleak of real footage of violence will prove it to be laughable, I mean hell the Daniel Pearl vid for a famous example. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/25 "2015-09-21T15:24:39Z")
The knife has to be _strong_? I wanna see a penis that can dull or snap a butcher’s knife. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/26 "2015-09-21T15:35:18Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The knife has to be _strong_? I wanna see a penis that can dull or snap a butcher’s knife. Not what Lorena used though, see pic I posted earlier. But if true that John slept through his penis being severed, she could have been sawing away for all I know. It isn’t that the knife would break or dull, it is that most people don’t have sharp professional quality knives at home and in a non-intoxicated individual you’d only get one slice before they scream and flail violently I’d assume after which you won’t be able to finish the job. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/27 "2015-09-21T15:49:44Z")
If I really wanted to do it right I’d get the lopping shears. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/28 "2015-09-21T17:12:32Z")
Hard to believe that among all us Dopers, there isn’t a country boy who butchers his own beef and could therefore answer the question of material properties. [sub]How many slices does it take to get through a Tootsie roll?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/29 "2015-09-21T17:21:26Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Yes there was a German case where a man replied to a classifieds ad about wanting to be killed and cannibalized. The cannibal started by removing his penis, it was cooked and then both men consumed it, this was recorded on video. > > I’d say that was willingly, if extremely disturbing. > > [Armin Meiwes - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Meiwes) :eek: Where do I go to have the brain cells destroyed where that picture is now stored. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/30 "2015-09-21T18:01:07Z")
I tried to call Lorena Bobbitt to ask about this question, but I got cut off. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/31 "2015-09-21T18:15:48Z")
This may well be the most uncomfortable thread I have read on the SDMB. Well, at least part of me is uncomfortable. And no, I do not want to see this on Mythbusters. I don’t want to see it anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/32 "2015-09-21T18:16:26Z")
What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Bobbit? “You gonna eat that?” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/33 "2015-09-21T18:28:06Z")
How about one of those cigar cutters? I see them every once in a while as a torture instrument to lop off fingers ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/34 "2015-09-21T20:43:02Z")
> [@grude](#): > > How many random people have professional chef quality items in their house? It’s not ‘professional chef quality’ that matters, but rather, how sharp you keep pretty much any piece of steel. I’ve been keeping pocket knives since I was a kid 40something years ago, some dirt-cheap, shaving sharp with less than an hour of work every couple of months. Even cheap steel will slice your finger to (and nick) the bone. I’ve got the scars to prove it. It doesn’t even have to be steel. Your dick won’t even slow down a sharp piece of torn aluminum beer can. Or broken glass. Cross your legs, and _ **fear** _ Lorena’s wrath! ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/35 "2015-09-21T21:04:24Z")
An aborted thread:[sup]\*[/sup] A man’s penis is cut off with a scissors, reattached, and soon cut off again. How well can he run? > **[A man's penis is cut off with a scissors, reattached, and soon cut off again....](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=746497)** > > First things first: Don’t need answer fast. And: the query is medical, yes, but not IMHO, IMHO. It’s MPSIMS, yes, but so begin many GQ queries. And perhaps it is GD fodder. But I need more hard data (no pun intended, honestly) on penile trauma and... Submitted as the faint distant wails of a zombie who never got to be a zombie. \*Pathetic plaint on what might have been: [spoiler]I jus wanna say that **Colibri** closed with a stinging flourish my similar hypothetical OP about penile surgery, occasioned immediately following the China event, because it was “sensationalist” and didn’t belong in this forum–even though I was perfectly well aware of its potentially different directions. But, as I recently stated in ATMB, I’m not mad at him. Well maybe a little.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/36 "2015-09-21T21:13:43Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > How many slices does it take to get through a Tootsie roll? That would be ‘3’. [Cite.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=O6rHeD5x2tI#t=37) ---
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/37 "2015-09-21T21:49:05Z")
The knife wouldn’t have to be professional quality. You can put a surgically sharp edge on practically any old knife. It’ll just dull much faster than a really good one. ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/38 "2015-09-21T21:57:44Z")
> [@Mikeisskeptical](#): > > The knife wouldn’t have to be professional quality. You can put a surgically sharp edge on practically any old knife. It’ll just dull much faster than a really good one. Or torn aluminum beer can, or broken glass. As I said, above. It only takes one quick-and-easy cut. Hey, dude… Where’d your dick go? ---
**Author:** ![Mikeisskeptical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mikeisskeptical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikeisskeptical)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/39 "2015-09-21T22:06:50Z")
> [@IDtenT\_Error](#): > > Or torn aluminum beer can, or broken glass. As I said, above. It only takes one quick-and-easy cut. > > Hey, dude… Where’d your dick go? Yep, sorry. Beat me to it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085/40 "2015-09-21T22:27:27Z")
> [@Mikeisskeptical](#): > > Yep, sorry. Beat me to it. 🙂 You’re forgiven, but I’m crossing my legs, just in case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-easy-is-it-to-cut-off-a-human-penis-on-an-unwilling-individual/732085.md?page=3)