The 90s case of the woman who cut off her husband’s penis has been brought vividly to life by an Amazon series. That story is now retold in “Lorena”, a four-part documentary on Amazon Prime, all about the wife who cut off her husband’s penis. Would today’s late-night TV comedians be as ready to see the Bobbitt case as an excuse to make nightly dick jokes? We learn that CNN faced a backlash from viewers when it cut broadcasting from the Bobbitt trial to cover arms control talks between Clinton and the Russian leader Boris Yeltsin. At the time, a Newsweek poll found that 60% of Americans were paying attention to the Bobbitt saga.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2019 15:22 UTC