Frank Bures

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2016

Frank Bures is the author of "The Geography of Madness: Penis Thieves, Voodoo Death and the Meaning of the World’s Strangest Syndromes." His work has appeared in Harper’s, Outside, Aeon, Lapham’s Quarterly, Scientific American, the Washington Post Magazine and been included in the Best American Travel Writing.

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New Bridge Road in Singapore, 1969, two years after the koro epidemic.

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In the Late 1960s, Singapore Was Gripped by a Genital Panic

Of all the national panics, this might be the most bizarre.

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