Severed penis spectacle arouses US passions at Lorena Bobbitt's trial- archive, 1994

11 January 1994 Jonathan Freedland finds a carnival atmosphere outside court, as the trial enters its second day

The chocolate penises sold best. At $10 each (about £7) and with a red-icing scar at the base, they were the souvenir of choice yesterday for visitors drawn to day one of the trial of Lorena Bobbitt.

Ms Bobbitt, a manicurist aged 24, has become a lightning rod for the American gender war and her name will forever be identified with a dismembered member.

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