The 90s case of the woman who cut off her husband’s penis has been brought vividly to life by an Amazon series. But what was most shocking was the culture clash between the sexes
The chocolate penises lingered in the memory. I didn’t need a television show to remind me of those. The zoo outside the Virginia courthouse, packed with satellite trucks, local entrepreneurs hawking what we didn’t yet call “merch” (including that phallic confectionery), protestors, campaigners, sympathisers, rubberneckers and assorted hangers-on – I remembered that, too. And the snow on the ground, the winter cold – that was still there, somewhere in the recesses of my mind.
But the more arcane details of the Lorena Bobbitt case, the personalities of the duelling lawyers and indeed of the two key protagonists, much of that had faded over the intervening quarter century, even for me who covered the trial as a young reporter for the Guardian back in the first weeks of 1994. I had only been posted to Washington three months earlier, expecting to cover the young presidency of Bill Clinton, his plans for economic regeneration and a post-cold war foreign policy. Instead, I found myself driving to Manassas, Virginia, to report on the story that had captured the imagination of the US and the world. 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.
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