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Lorena Bobbitt Wields a Knife

On This Day in History: June 23

James Fell

Jun 23, 2026

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The name Lorena Bobbitt makes many a man cross his legs. But there is much more to this story than a severed penis. John Wayne Bobbitt was an abusive piece of shit and Lorena was his victim.

--On This Day in History Shit Went Down: June 23, 1993--

She has returned to her birth name of Lorena Gallo. She was born in Ecuador and moved to the U.S. in 1987, marrying Bobbitt two years later. For years Lorena suffered domestic violence at the hands of her husband, a former marine, who physically, sexually, and emotionally abused her.

On the night of June 23, 1993, Lorena took a knife from the kitchen and cut off her sleeping husband’s penis. She fled in her car, taking the penis with her, then threw it out the window. The penis was found and surgically reattached. And that’s what the media and the comedians all focused on. His dick being severed and sewn back on so that it mostly worked again and John could have a brief porn career afterward.

What got glossed over was why she did it. He fucking raped her, that’s why. She’d endured years of his abuse, and felt like she had no way to escape. That night he came home drunk, raped Lorena, then fell asleep. So she did what she did, saying it was a matter of survival, and was put on trial for it. John was also put on trial for marital rape, which had only very recently become illegal in all 50 states. But marital rape was exceedingly difficult to secure a conviction for in Virginia, where it all happened.

During Lorena’s trial a string of witnesses testified on her behalf, saying they frequently saw her with bruises on her arms and neck. She had repeatedly called 911 to report his domestic violence. John had bragged to friends about forcing his wife to have sex. Which is rape. Forcing someone to have sex with you is rape, even if you’re married. Get it through your fucking head.

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The jury found Lorena not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, but John was also found not guilty of rape. Since the trial he’s been arrested several times and served jail time for attacks on two separate women. One of them was a girlfriend he tied to a bed and repeatedly raped over several days. What a piece of shit. Lorena, conversely, has become an advocate for victims of domestic violence.

The names of the two porn films John starred in were called Uncut and Frankenpenis. I heard Uncut described as “trying to shove a marshmallow into a piggy bank slot.” When John appeared on Howard Stern’s radio show Stern said, “I don’t even buy that he was raping her. She’s not that good looking.” So Stern is also a piece of shit. John maintains that he was planning to divorce her and had denied her sex and she cut off his penis in a vengeful rage. Riiiggghhttt.

Playboy offered Lorena $1 million to pose nude for the magazine. She turned them down.

NOTE: This piece was researched and written by a human, not some bullshit “ai” plagiarism software.

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