# What Happened To This (Minor) Celebrity? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234 "2011-02-13T19:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/1 "2011-02-13T19:06:49Z")
As the late Andy Warhol predicted, everybody will become famous-for 15 minutes. Years ago, there was a crazy husband-wife incident: the pissed-off wife, tired of her hsband’s infidelities, took a knife and gelded her husband. I seem to remember that the guy recovered his member, and went to the hospital-I don’t know if the missing member got re-attached. Anyway, the guy got onto the TV-talk radio circuit (for a while)-anybody know what happened to him? Did he write bestselling book? ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/2 "2011-02-13T19:08:09Z")
John and Lorena Bobbitt? > **[John and Lorena Bobbitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt)** > > John Wayne Bobbitt (born 1967) and Lorena Bobbitt (née Gallo; born 1969 or 1970) are an American former couple married on June 18, 1989, whose relationship received international press coverage in 1993 when Lorena severed John's penis with a food knife while he was asleep in bed; the penis was successfully surgically reattached. Lorena, an Ecuadorian immigrant and the primary breadwinner, claimed that her husband John, a bar bouncer and former U.S. Marine, had raped and abused The incident i... ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/3 "2011-02-13T22:23:31Z")
Several years ago, I heard an ad on the radio for John Bobbitt appearing at a strip club for a ladies’ night event. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/4 "2011-02-13T23:13:42Z")
He also did at least one porn movie. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/5 "2011-02-14T00:20:54Z")
He’s got a verb named after him so I take offense at this member of the celebrity club having his name forgotten. His ability to stand up and not be a tool was quite legendary. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/6 "2011-02-14T00:42:17Z")
There is an awesomely horrible description in Ron Jeremy’s book of that porn shoot. Bobbitt had severe problems in getting and sustaining an erection. In those pre-Viagra days, the way to force an erection was … an injection into the penis. Which had to be applied repeatedly. I assume he was desperate for money. Desperate. Really desperate. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/7 "2011-02-14T00:53:06Z")
Might add that Lorena Bobbitt did not exactly “geld” her hubby. She lopped off his pecker but AFAIK left his balls intact. One must always be careful to make these distinctions…😛 SS ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/8 "2011-02-14T00:57:35Z")
> [@faithfool](#): > > He also did at least one porn movie. And it was called _John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut_. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/9 "2011-02-14T01:00:02Z")
Forrest Stump ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/10 "2011-02-14T01:32:59Z")
His wife made a porno, too, under the stage name _Ivana Kutcherkockov_. ---
**Author:** ![tim-n-va](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim-n-va/32/3001_2.png) [@tim-n-va](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim-n-va)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/11 "2011-02-14T02:50:37Z")
The thing that I wanted to know was this. She got in her car and started to drive. After a few minutes she realized she had the penis in her hand and threw it out the window. How much time do you have to spend driving with a penis in your hand before you can do it without noticing? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/12 "2011-02-14T02:52:47Z")
Well, there was that time I got bored while driving alone… ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/13 "2011-02-14T03:05:13Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > The thing that I wanted to know was this. She got in her car and started to drive. After a few minutes she realized she had the penis in her hand and threw it out the window. How much time do you have to spend driving with a penis in your hand before you can do it without noticing? Simultaneously exposing (ha!) him to a charge of indecent exposure, and to her for littering. ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/14 "2011-02-14T03:29:13Z")
I heard that after his penis was reattached he got a job as a spokesman for SnapOn Tools. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/15 "2011-02-14T04:26:54Z")
Well, he wanted to work for HeadOn, but not after he found out you applied it directly to the forehead. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/16 "2011-02-14T05:38:03Z")
> [@tim-n-va](#): > > The thing that I wanted to know was this. She got in her car and started to drive. After a few minutes she realized she had the penis in her hand and threw it out the window. How much time do you have to spend driving with a penis in your hand before you can do it without noticing? It bounced off the windshield of the car behind her, prompting the driver to say to his companion, “Wow, didja see the dick on that mosquito?” ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/17 "2011-02-14T06:04:47Z")
Thumbs up to this thread for giving me multiple laugh-gasms. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/18 "2011-02-14T14:11:55Z")
Thanks-it was Bobbitt. The gy never seemed to make much off this “incident”. I recall him being interviewed on TV (post re-attachment)-he seemed borderline retarded. Anyway, thanks. I still cannot understand how having one’s member cut off doesn’t lead to death via bleeding-maybe he applied a tourniquet? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/19 "2011-02-14T14:30:42Z")
I read a NY Times article on this right after it happened. When Bobbit came into the emergency room, he was holding a towel against his crotch. When he took it away, the doctor realized the three blood vessels had somehow formed a massive blood clot, thus saving Bobbit’s life. I doubt that any guy would volunteer for an experiment reenacting the crime to see if this was the standard response or just a fluke. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234/20 "2011-02-14T20:22:07Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > And it was called _John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut_. And in that movie the person who finds his wang on the side of the road is none other that Lemmy from Motorhead. Because, why not? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-this-minor-celebrity/571234.md?page=2)