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It’s a classic story: boy meets girl, girl invites boy to a sensual sauna for kissing and beer, girl sedates boy, girl surgically removes unconscious boy’s balls in order to sell them on the black market, boy wakes up at a bus stop with no testicles but lots of questions. Russian authorities are reportedly searching for the "young blonde woman" behind the horrific crime, and what they fear might be a larger organ-trafficking gang.

More, via the Daily Mail:

Rushed to hospital, he was told that his testicles had been removed and that ’it was done like proper surgery by someone with a medical education’. The operation was conducted in a ’skillful way’, said police, who believe his beer was spiked by an unknown drug.

...The actor, now working as a children’s animator, was too embarrassed at first to explain what had happened to his wife, said media reports.

My deepest sympathies to the victim--I can’t even imagine how traumatic it would be to experience such a violation.

My only question here is this: As I understand it from 1.5 seconds searching the internet, ball transplants are not a thing. Any negative effects of losing your testicles can be counteracted with hormone therapy, and, aesthetically, there are always Neuticles. So WTF is the point of stealing someone’s balls? If it’s not for illegal organ trade, then what? That’s somehow even creepier.