A man in China who had his penis cut off by his wife has relived the nightmare, suffering a second castration during a drug induced coma.

The Bobbitting started when a man, identified as Han Mou, asked his wife for a divorce, EChinacities.com reports.

The wife, named Zhang, believed her husband was seeking a divorce because he was in a relationship with at least one other woman.

Seeking to put an end to his suspected extra-marital rendezvous Zhang drugged him with sleeping pills, cut off his penis and flushed it down the toilet.

She was arrested but later bailed and continued to live with her genitally challenged husband and their children.

However, it appears Mr Han's member was fished out of the toilet and successfully re-attached.

With his newly reclaimed manhood Mr Han set out on the quest for a new wife once again, expecting Zhang would be jailed, leaving him to raise his children alone.

Unimpressed with her husband's antics Zhang dusted off her sleeping pills and drugged a glass of his milk.

Mr Han later woke up in agony and screamed that his wife had cut off "everything".

Zhang called an ambulance and police to give herself up.

Castration has been referred to as Bobbitting in popular culture since 1993 when John Wayne Bobbitt's wife Lorena cut off his penis while he slept.

It was later re-attached during a marathon operation and the year after his surgery Bobbitt was able to make his pornographic film debut in the award-winning John Bobbitt Uncut.