In Search of Nigeria’s Magical Penis Thieves
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.30.08 | 2:01 PM ET
We’re privileged at World Hum to count among our contributors a few of the leading writers on penis mysteries in foreign lands. Interest in overseas junk, it seems, has never been higher. Tony Perrottet’s new book, Napoleon’s Privates, will be released in July. David Farley’s book about his quest for Jesus’ foreskin—aka the Holy Foreskin—is due out next year. And now, Frank Bures has published an in-depth story in the June issue of Harper’s about the magical penis thieves of Nigeria. Bures visited the country before the most recent spate of penis-theft headlines out of Congo. Talk about foreskin—I mean, foresight.
Bures had been following reports of magical penis thefts in Nigeria for years before he decided to hop on a plane and investigate them. He writes: “I wanted to see for myself, but no magazine would send me. It was too much money, too far, too strange. Finally, when my wife became pregnant, I realized that it might be my last reckless chance to go, and so I shouldered the expenses myself and went.”
Clearly, it wasn’t that reckless. Fine work, Frank.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
