The man who had his PENIS and testicles hacked off with pruning shears is claiming tonight that it was a 'sex game gone wrong'.

It was previously reported that the 40-year-old rock musician - named only as Sergio F - was asleep when he was allegedly mutilated by stunning blonde architect Brenda Barattini.

But his lawyer insisted today that he was both blindfolded AND aroused when the attack took place.

Barattini's lawyer claims the 26-year-old was defending herself from a sex assault - after being fooled into letting Sergio into her apartment in Cordoba, Argentina.

Carlos Nayi said: “There’s justification for what happened. The information I’ve received is that she was the victim of a sex attack.

Brenda Barattini is accused of cutting her boyfriend's penis off with a pair of garden shears (
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“She let him into her apartment because he’s someone who’s in a rock band and is an acquaintance of her brother but once inside, instead of removing a musical instrument as he was supposed to, he attacked her sexually and she assumed a defensive attitude.

"Whether or not she acted excessively is for the courts to decide.”

However the claims were rubbished by Eduardo Perez, the lawyer acting for Sergio, whose reproductive organs are reported to have been rendered useless despite an emergency hospital op which has put him “out of danger.”

Mr Perez said: “I don’t understand what's happened. This is someone I’ve known for some time.

“This was a peaceful encounter.”

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Insisting the pair had been seeing each other for several months, he added: “They were in the middle of things. He wasn’t asleep.

"They began with a sexual game in which he was blindfolded.

“There is evidence that was at the crime scene.”

Argentinian papers have published pictures of the bloodied bed where Sergio alleges he was attacked as well as the pruning shears on the floors.

Offensive photos in one sensationalist paper even show the man at the centre of the confusing incident sat on the floor of Barattini’s apartment with his hands covering his manhood and blood all over the lower part of his body including his shoes and ankles - as well as a close-up of the affected area with what’s left of his mutillated private parts pixellated.

Images of the blood-stained bed after the horrifying attack leaked to the local press (
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It was not clear how the pictures - too graphic to be published in a family newspaper - reached the paper.

Barattini, described in local media as an architect, has been remanded in prison and is expected to undergo psychiatric tests to determine her state of mind.

She is being investigated on suspicion of a crime of wounding.

The horror incident happened on Saturday night in a neighbourhood called Nueva Cordoba, one of the most fashionable and sought-after areas of Cordoba which is the home province of Katie Price’s former boyfriend Leandro Penna.

State prosecutor Bettina Croppi said the only thing she knew for sure at the moment was that the injuries that Sergio had suffered were “very serious.”

The crime is similar to the infamous one of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbit (
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She admitted: “It’s very likely he’s lost the ability to be able to father children” and said it had been confirmed the couple knew each other but it was not clear yet if they were in a relationship.

Barattini has yet to give a statement and will not be formally questioned until next week after her psychiatric evaluation. Tests are also understood to have taken place to determine if she was raped or sexually attacked.

Sergio is still in intensive care in hospital.

Mrs Croppi said: “What I can say is that the man wasn’t tied up when police arrived. He was helped by neighbours first and then by paramedics who arrived after the police.”

Investigators are still trying to establish where the pruning shears came from as well as seeking background info on Barattini, who comes from Chubut in southern Argentina.

The case has evoked memories of Lorena Bobbitt who chopped off her husband John’s penis with a kitchen knife in 1993 before throwing it into a field.

Some sectors of the Argentinian press have already dubbed Barattini the Argentinian Lorena Bobbitt.