Eye-gouging



Eye-gouging is the act of pressing or tearing the eye using the fingers, other bodyparts, or instruments. Eye-gouging involves a very high risk of eye injury, such as permanent eye loss. It is disallowed in combat sports, but some self-defense systems teach it. Training in eye-gouging can involve extensive grappling training to establish control, the eye-gouging itself being practiced with the opponent wearing eye protection such as swimming goggles.

Yuki Nakai went on to win a bout in the Vale Tudo Japan 1995 tournament after his opponent performed an illegal gouge that blinded him in that eye.

As judicial punishment
According to Human Rights Watch, Iran and Saudi Arabia are the only countries that consider eye-gouging to be a legitimate judicial punishment.

In popular culture

 * In God of War III, Kratos gouges out the eyes of the sea god Poseidon as he brutally beats him to death.


 * In the manga Battle Royale, the antagonist Kiriyama is shown to have ripped his teacher's eye out when he became curious about what color the fluid surrounding the eye was.


 * The film 28 Days Later, an eye gouging is performed on a corrupt soldier after the infection reached the military grounds a group of survivors was residing in.


 * In the film 28 Weeks Later, an eye gouging is performed by an infected man on his wife whilst he is attacking her.


 * In the film See No Evil, the character Jacob Goodnight often gouges eyes of his victims and stores them in jars.


 * The Quentin Tarantino film character Elle Driver of Kill Bill has both eyes gouged out in the film.


 * In the 2006 remake of Black Christmas, there are many eye gougings as deaths in the film.


 * In Shakespeare's King Lear, the character Gloucester has his eyes gouged out.