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Film director Johnson retrieves his penis from a 'ritualists' in Lagos

Film director Johnson retrieves his penis from a ‘ritualists’ in Lagos

A Nigerian film director identified as Johnson Wilcox, took to Twitter to narrate how he retrieved his penis from suspected ‘ritualists’ in Lagos.

According to Johnson, he noticed that his private part was missing after a bike man and another man shook him in Ikota area of Lagos. Narrating how he retrieved his penis from the suspected ritualists, the Nigerian film director wrote;

I am on my way…

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Stolen penises and other exotic psychological tales

From penis thieves to voodoo death, strange mental disorders can tell us a lot about the deeper layers of any culture, finds an unusual new travelogue

@newscientist magazine reviews The Geography of Madness by Frank Bures: "A travel book with a quest...[Bures] is a brisk, perceptive, congenial travelling companion, thinking seriously about the mysteries of culture and illness."

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On the trail of penis thieves

Frank Bures, an award-winning magazine writer who got his start in Madison, is out with a new book: “The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death, and the Search for the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes.”

Isthmus talks globe-trotting, penis thievery, and The Geography of Madness by Frank Bures: "In The Geography of Madness, Bures explores the idea of culture — What is it? How do we learn it? How is it shaped and how does it shape us? — from the vantage point of his world travels, which are spontaneous, extensive and kind of weird."

Learn more about The Geography of Madness here.

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Review: 'The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Search for the Meaning of the World's Strangest Syndromes,' by Frank Bures

If ever my penis were stolen, I'd want Frank Bures to hunt for it.

“If ever my penis were stolen, I'd want Frank Bures to hunt for it ... Bures, a Minneapolis-based travel writer, turns in a reportorial tour de force in this examination of culture, belief and madness."”

This guy gets it.

You can get it, too.

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Five fascinating culture-bound syndromes » MobyLives

The Geography of Madness is an investigation of “culture-bound” syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they’re in good physical…

We’ve been yelling PENIS THIEVES for a while now, and for good reason. But, you ask, what other culture-bound syndromes are there? Oh reader, there are plenty—and here culture expert and author of The Geography of Madness Frank Bures shares some of the most fascinating he’s encountered.

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An interview with Frank Bures, author of The Geography of Madness » MobyLives

The Geography of Madness is the story of a quest. That quest, Frank Bures explains in his introduction, took him from Lagos to Hong Kong to Borneo, in an effort to understand the strange things that all of us believe.…

"One of the first questions people always ask about magical penis theft is, 'Can’t they just check?' It’s an obvious question. Seems simple enough. But we would never say, 'Can’t that anorexic person just get on a scale?' Or 'Can’t the depressed person just see things aren’t so bad?' Other people’s distortions are always stranger than our own because they come from a set of assumptions about how the world works that we don’t share."

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The Geography of Madness: Penis thievery and other strange syndromes

Frank Bures takes on penis thievery and other strange syndromes in The Geography of Madness

"Bures asks what forces are at the root of people’s suffering. How is mental and physical health intertwined? Along the way, readers get an entertaining history of the study of culture...bombshells from his own family history...give the story heart."

–Maclean's on The Geography of Madness by Frank Bures

Pre-order the book here.