PENIS SNATCHER!

In a late issue of "Pacific Standard" magazine, Louisa Lombard, an anthropologist at the College of California at Berkeley, depicted going by a residential community in the Focal African Republic where she experienced two men who asserted that their penises had been stolen. 

It appears that the day preceding, an explorer going by the town had shaken hands with a tea merchant who instantly guaranteed he felt a stun and detected that his penis had contracted. He shouted out in caution, assembling a group, and a second man then said it additionally transpired. 

This is not the setup to a joke; it is a genuine mental issue called koro in which casualties (for the most part men, however at times ladies) come to trust that their private parts are contracting or withdrawing into the body. The worry is for their sexuality, as well as for their lives, since they trust that the condition may be life undermining if not switched. Keeping in mind the end goal to forestall further shrinkage, casualties have been known not tie their penises with string or metal cinches — even now and then having relatives hold it in transfers until treatment can be looked for, for the most part from shamen or conventional healer