But I've learned to be sensitive to other people understand them a lot better

But I've learned to be sensitive to other people, understand them a lot better. I'm a lot different."Despite this new man stance, the nice girl who can "handle my kind of lifestyle" has yet to appear, and he is pinning his hopes on his career. There's a lot of girls like that, con artists and hustlers." So real women are not queuing up to get intimate? "Well, I dunno, not really Would you want to? No? Hahaha. Are you just saying that?"He takes some of the blame for Lorena's revenge. His marriage was already breaking up, he says, but admits to being "insensitive" when he informed Lorena bluntly that he wanted a divorce, then went out on the town with the friend who ended up driving him to hospital later that same night "I hurt her feelings I gotta be more sensitive. She lied in court, she admitted to lying, it was a complete set-up.

Everyone in Vegas don't like her any more because of what she did She was just a bad person. "It works fine, but it doesn't look quite how it should.")And, having divorced Lorena, he narrowly escaped marrying a Las Vegas stripper, and ended up briefly in prison for assaulting her "She was a gold-digger. She was real beautiful but she was only with me for personal gain I was never violent to her. The real timescale for getting back to something approaching normal, he admits, was somewhat different "But it still took only three months That's all. I'm a strong guy, very fit, good genetics."Learning by experience, however, is obviously not his forte. Once his original scars had healed, he put his much-abused penis under the knife yet again, this time in an enlargement operation - a process more painful, he says, than having the whole thing chopped off and put back. Sadly, the fat injected into it, taken from other parts of his body, has settled unevenly, and the surgeon will need to have yet another corrective fiddle around (Though he is not entirely dissatisfied.

"It was like being attacked by a predator."In the video, the operation is presented as a procedure of much the same calibre as having a broken nail repaired, and a mere two days later he is much comforted by the ministrations of two nubile nurses whose uniforms conveniently drop off at the undoing of a belt. We were the only white family living in a really rough neighbourhood. My mother was raped twice, our house was vandalised, a lot of stuff was stolen, I got beaten up And that was all in pre-school My mother, she had a mental breakdown. That's why I chose to be in the Marines, to work hard and be strong."Although military cutbacks forced him to leave the navy, he believes that on the fateful night when he was given the chop by "the devil's daughter", as he now likes to call his ex-wife, he owed his life to his training in the Marines "I have a very high tolerance of pain It hurt for a split second It was very frightening. But I was very confident of surviving, because I was trained in dealing with war, where you can get hurt really badly." All the same, presumably penile amputation came as something of a jolt? "I was shocked," he says seriously. What kind of a place is Niagara? "Well, there's a big waterfall." Yes, indeed, and quite a famous one. But what was it like to live there? "It was my playground when I was a kid I love it Mother Nature at her best But I grew up in a very poor family.

He refers to his life in Las Vegas a lot, but somehow he doesn't reflect the glitz of his new home town He looks like a product of the sticks. With his long-lashed grey eyes, a still oddly limpid country-boy gaze, uneven teeth and cropped hair, Bobbitt, now 29, could easily pass for yet another Walton brother, though long-lost and long-disowned.His speech is slow, and he is painfully literal He was born in Niagara, New York. Without a studio tan, he looks jet-lagged and pasty, and somehow shorter, chubbier and less toned, though under his Calvin Klein T-shirt his chest muscles twitch alarmingly when he's thinking hard. Even John Wayne himself claims to have tired of their silicone valleys "The British have a lot of beautiful, natural women. Where I come from, Vegas, it's a different world, and a lot of the women there are fake. I'm the type of man who likes a real woman." Way to go, John Wayne.In the flesh, as it were, he looks rather different to the Bobbitt on the tape.