There is some naivety in the idea of \u200b\u200bpunishing the guilty of a crime of body parts - for example, that thieves are hacked off. If you follow this approach, why not punish the genitals of people who commit sexual offenses? Or masturbators and homosexuals who defy good manners and risk their health? Over the centuries, the logic of such proposals has satisfied many of the authorities responsible for the rule of law. And thus, do away with them - let's say: with anything, just to finally solve the problem.

The practice of genital mutilation has been sanctified for centuries. As a medieval punishment for rape or treason, it corresponded jus talionis - an eye for an eye. Since 1906, this has been the usual sentence for sex offenders in Europe. In the XIX century. Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton coined the term "eugenics" for a system designed to increase the genetic stock of people by selecting the "best" representatives to reproduce. The obvious way to prevent the participation of the “inferior” in this process was to sterilize them. In 1931, the British Parliament strongly condemned the eugenics legislation, but it was enthusiastically supported in other European countries. Hundreds of thousands of unfortunate people were sterilized both to "improve the nation" and to save the nation's money, which happened more often.

Physical castration - removal of the testicles - is the same process that was applied to castrates to stop the development of their laryngeal structures. In adults, this reduces libido and sexual activity, which makes castration acceptable when dealing with sex offenders. It has also been used in eugenics. In the United States, eugenics-based castration lasted from 1899 to 1930, and was used as the preferred punishment in several southern states for black men accused or even suspected of raping white women.

In Europe, eugenics was greeted with enthusiasm in Germany, and the 1933 Prevention of Hereditary Disorders Act made sterilization compulsory for anyone suffering from hereditary health problems. This was supported by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, educating doctors about the details of "racial science" and training them to fulfill their responsibilities. Nazi "justice" also often resorted to genital mutilation. During the era of the Third Reich, four hundred thousand people were sterilized, and many of them were castrated, sentenced to the ban on having children. One of the first groups selected for this procedure were the "Rhineland Bastards" - racially mixed children born to German mothers and African-American military personnel from the occupying forces after World War I. Those selected for sterilization included those who suffered from blindness, deafness, physical disability, mental disability, schizophrenia and manic depression. Tramps, vagabonds and alcoholics could also be considered mentally disabled and, on this basis, sterilized.

Especially close attention was aroused by sexual deviations and perversions, and therefore with addiction they searched for and caught homosexuals. The Reich Justice Department ruled that every act of homosexuality between adults is almost certainly the result of instinct acquired by virtue of bad heredity. One prison doctor performed so many castration operations that he perfected their technique and speed to such an extent that eight minutes were sufficient for each patient, using only local anesthesia.

There were also major eugenics movements in Scandinavia, the USA and Canada. Denmark revised the 1929 sterilization law so that by 1935 it closely resembled German and other European laws of this kind. The candidates had to be at least twenty-one years old and the perpetrators had to commit “serious sexual” crimes, including incest and exhibitionism. Although homosexuality and prostitution were excluded from the list of sexual crimes, some men were castrated for this. Some men preferred castration to imprisonment.

In 1941, Sweden also expanded its 1934 laws to include “antisocial” laws, and thus was unable to take care of the children of criminals. Both Danish and Swedish laws influenced Finland, where similar acts were approved in 1935. Norway did the same in 1934, Estonia in 1937, and Iceland and Latvia in 1938. In total, in Europe as Thousands of men were castrated for various sexual crimes.

In 1929, twenty-four states of the United States, notably California and Virginia, passed sterilization laws to correct problems associated with genetic defects. By 1958, 60,929 people had been castrated, and those who tried to escape were sought by the police and forced to return to this procedure.

In Canada, only the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta have passed eugenics-related laws. In British Columbia, no more than a few hundred people were sterilized. In Alberta, from 1928 to 1971, the Eugenics Council ruled to sterilize two thousand eight hundred and twenty-two citizens. About seven hundred of them, who are still alive, have filed claims for compensation.

Castration for sex crimes often led to the appearance of eunuchs, and the older the castrate was, the more likely it was that surgery would lead to impotence. Studies conducted with them indicate that immediately after the operation, at least 60 percent lost their sex drive and potency, and over time this happened with another 20 percent. They also had other side effects: hot flushes, a decrease in hair on the face and body, the development of adipose tissue, skin changes in which it became softer, looser and flabby, more folds and networks of wrinkles appeared on the face, it acquired features, characteristic of the castrato face. Castration also led to a decrease in the recurrence of sex offenses from 84 percent before surgery to about 2.2 percent afterwards.

Currently, the sterilization of sex offenders is carried out by chemical castration rather than physical. She is considered less violent and potentially reversible. A series of injections with hormones or other medications are given that reduce sex drive, thereby improving the patient's ability to respond to different types of psychotherapy and behavior change. Chemical castration is used in the USA, Canada, and Europe. As a result of its use, there are slightly more repeat offenders (about 6 percent, according to one study) than with physical castration.

Today, a new eugenics and health law in overcrowded China aims to prevent “defective births” through a combination of forced castration, sterilization, abortion and celibacy. It applies to people with hereditary, sexually transmitted, infectious diseases (for example, hepatitis B), with a strong mental disorder.

In Thailand, an amateur form of informal but radical castration is currently developing. More than a hundred vengeful women mixed drugs into their food or drink for their unfaithful husbands, and then cut off their penises. The authorities took the issue so seriously that they created the Penis Patrol. This Patrol is called when the next victim comes to his senses and discovers that the area of \u200b\u200bthe body in the area of \u200b\u200b\\ u200b \\ u200bthe genitals is in the blood, and the most important organ itself is missing. As a search party, they inspect the nearby fields in the hope of finding a penis severed with merciless cruelty, and they do it as a high-speed race, hoping to be in time to the hospital so that they can somehow be restored. Often they find him, but one woman in a rage was able to carry them out by attaching her husband's penis to a balloon filled with helium-air mixture, to be completely sure that the husband could never get it back.

One consequence of the wave of penile amputations is that Thai surgeons are now the world's best specialists in penile reconstruction. One surgeon restored thirty-one such organs to their owners. Another consequence is a slight increase in the number of monks in Buddhist monasteries, since some new castrates, seeking to come to terms with the state of sterility, seek spiritual comfort in religion as monks.

And those who engage in such barbarism - women who do not want to endure the frivolous behavior of spouses on the side and their mistresses, are launching their illegal but effective campaign. If they are found guilty of a crime, they face ten years in prison, but the crux of the problem is that they are willing to sit in prison as long as it takes to nip in the bud their husbands' infidelity.

Chapter 10

Celibacy to suppress unconventional or mournful sexuality

Leonardo da Vinci dodged jail time

Lewis Carroll dispelled suspicions

John Ruskin avoided vile sexual relationships

Sir Isaac Newton healed a broken heart

Boston marriages celebrate romantic friendships

Celibacy is the most obvious way to avoid manifesting or feeling unconventional sexuality, in particular homosexuality and pedophilia. In different historical eras, these forms of sexuality have been outlawed. People exposed to them risked falling under a variety of punishments, often very cruel: imprisonment, humiliation, professional dishonor, social boycott and religious condemnation. In such circumstances, celibacy was an excellent opportunity to hide, deny, or even “cure” homosexuality and pedophilia.

Celibacy is a convenient way to avoid unwanted sexual sensations, including feelings of aversion to either the genitals, sexual intercourse, or both. For some people, this is the easiest way to cope with the grief that has befallen them, self-defense from the melancholy that gnaws at them after the relationship with a loved one broke up.

All of these celibate situations are easy enough to imagine, and thoughtful adults can determine if their own acquaintances are celibate, possibly belonging to one of the categories mentioned above. Of course, this often remains only at the level of guesswork. People who seek to hide their celibacy deny or suppress the manifestation of sexual desires, consider them unacceptable, harmful or disgusting. They are unlikely to be ready to discuss problems of this kind. This applies even more to historical figures. The nature of the beast often calls into question both their belief in celibacy and, even more so, the reasons that push them to do so. Nonetheless, the famous people mentioned below are generally believed to have been celibate, each with their own reasons.

Female castration, in contrast to the procedure that is carried out for men (the same castration or circumcision), is a very cruel manipulation aimed at achieving other goals. The main task of such an intervention is the complete or partial removal of the clitoris in the fairer sex. Moreover, in some countries located in the southern and eastern parts of Asia and Africa, the labia should also be removed, after which the genital gap is sutured.

If you answer the question: castration of women, what is it, it must be said that this is real barbarism and humiliation of human dignity. In these peoples it is believed that the smaller the hole for urination is left, the better castration is performed, because the future husband will be able to get maximum pleasure. Ultimately, the goal is to completely conquer female morality and achieve frigidity.

Castration of women is also called surgical interventions, as a result of which there is a partial (ovaries) or complete (ovaries and uterus) removal of the genitals. Similar treatment is indicated for women who have been diagnosed with serious diseases, for example: polycystic ovary disease, tumor neoplasms, large cysts, but provided that drug therapy was ineffective.

It is extremely difficult for a woman to decide on the removal of the ovaries or uterus. After such operations, patients often become depressed and feel inferior, but without them, the quality of life is greatly deteriorating, and the consequences can be most severe.

In medicine, there are several options for operations:

1. Subtotal hysterectomy involves removing only the body of the uterus;
2. Total hysterectomy is aimed at excision of the uterus and its cervix;
3. With radical hysterectomy, the lymph nodes, the upper part of the vagina and the uterus itself are removed;
4. An ovariectomy operation is aimed at removing one or two ovaries;
5. The salpingo-oophorectomy procedure is aimed at amputating the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Based on the chosen method of intervention, operations will be performed using one of the proposed methods: abdominal surgery, extraction of the uterus through the vagina, or laparoscopy. It is very important that a woman, after such manipulations, strictly follow all medical recommendations, they will help to avoid the development of many negative consequences.

In many Muslim countries, there is a kind of castration of a woman who pursues completely different goals, so it is worth considering what concepts it is designated, where it is carried out, and also what consequences it threatens.

Concepts

Female castration or circumcision has several types, namely three: excision, sunna and pharaoh circumcision or infibulation.

The safest, and, according to some experts, even useful, is such a circumcision as sunna. When performing this procedure, the doctor removes the folds of the skin in the clitoris, which makes it constantly open and accessible, as a result of which the level of sexual sensitivity increases.

In most Muslim countries, girls are castrated, called excision. With all this, if you ask a resident of the country whether such interference is being done now, he will deny it in every possible way. In the course of manipulation, the woman's clitoris and labia minora are removed, which deprives the woman of the opportunity to obtain sexual satisfaction.

The most barbaric method is Pharaoh's circumcision, which, among other things, requires stitching the genital slit. In this case, only the person who does the procedure decides whether the penis will be able to enter there in the future, or whether an incision will need to be performed.

Subsequently, when childbirth is coming, the sutures are either removed temporarily, or a cesarean section is performed. During the intervention, the glands that produce a special secret (lubricant) are also subject to removal, since it is believed that it makes the man's seminal fluid "dirty".

Where do

The castration of girls is not a myth, but a very real fact, since the ritual itself has existed for more than four thousand years, and as a result of this, more than 140 million women have been injured in different time periods. Today such a procedure is widespread and carried out in 30 countries around the world.

Currently, female castration, in which the female genitals are completely removed, is practiced in countries such as Sudan, Mali and Somalia, in parts of Ethiopia, Egypt and northern Nigeria. More than 98% of all born girls go through such a blasphemous procedure in Sudan and Somalia, and about 75% in Egypt.

The only good news is that recently the number of women castrated in Egypt has been rapidly declining, especially in those families where at least someone has received secondary or higher education. It is worth saying that it was this factor that contributed to the fact that more than 40% of families in this country refused to be castrated.

Speaking of the partial castration of women, which is also called clitorodectomy, such a procedure is currently being carried out on the west coast, from Cameroon to Mauritania. Also, a similar operation is performed in the Central African Republic, Chad, Kenya, Northern Egypt and Tanzania.

In some Asian countries, female circumcision or castration is a tradition that they honor, therefore the procedure is performed in some Muslim communities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Pakistan and Indonesia. Such actions, albeit without publicity, are still being carried out in the United Arab Emirates, South Yemen, Oman and Bahrain. You can find cases of castration of women in Brazil (Latin America), Peru and Eastern Mexico.

The level of development and recognition of the Nigerian peoples is so low that to this day they sacredly believe in the death of a baby at birth, if he somehow touches his head to a woman's clitoris. The castration procedure is carried out here during the period when the woman is in the sixth month of pregnancy.

There are also certain tribes, for example, those located in Sierra Lyon, that if the clitoris is not circumcised, then it will definitely grow to the size of a man's penis. But, according to the Sudanese and Somalis, the clitoris not removed is the reason that a woman is mastering one of the most ancient professions - prostitution.

With all this, if you pay attention to the information provided by Dr. Koso-Thomas, who checked more than 200 representatives of this craft, 170 of them were still circumcised. Also, some ethnic groups located in Mali and Northern Nigeria are convinced that a woman's genitals are disgusting, so they should be removed for aesthetic reasons.

The main danger lies in the fact that no matter which country in the world emigrants from the presented regions come to, they will still continue such bullying. Over the past decade, similar cases have been recorded in such modern countries of the world as Britain, France, Germany, USA, Finland and five other states.

By law in Britain, the castration of women was banned in 1985, but this does not become an obstacle for large Afro-Asian communities located in large cities to circumcise their daughters. Yes, no one knows the exact data on how many women had to go through such torments. This is due to the fact that such procedures are carried out either not on the territory of the country, or they are done secretly.

Effects

On request "female castration in video" you can watch how this procedure takes place, but you must always remember about the large-scale negative consequences for the girl's body. First of all, it must be said that since the intervention is carried out outside any sanitary and medical standards, no anesthesia is used. That is why some of the girls die during the operation from blood loss or painful shock.

Any object can be used as a cutting tool: old scissors, a straight razor, or even a shard of a bottle. If a girl survived this brutal rite, she will be tormented by the castration complex in women all her life. It often happens that with such an intervention, AIDS is infected, but even if this did not happen, in the future the girl will be haunted by unbearable pain during menstrual bleeding, childbirth will be difficult and problems with urination will appear.

When the first local study was conducted, aimed at studying the harm to the female body that it undergoes after circumcision, it showed that almost half of women in the process of labor are in danger of death, this also applies to her first child.

Depending on how severely and how extensively the intervention was carried out, the mortality rate can be from 20 to 50. Every woman who has undergone such torture spends a longer period of time after childbirth in the hospital ward, they have a high level of blood loss, and often delivery takes place by cesarean section.

Almost twice as often, a newly born child requires placing him in intensive care. The researchers also note the fact that the indicators may be significantly underestimated, since the data are taken exclusively from state perinatal centers.

The fact is that the bulk of women in such countries give birth at home, so it is not possible to establish exact numbers. Also, the lack of necessary medical skills and conditions significantly increases the mortality rate of women and newborns.

About the procedure (video)

These two heinous types of punishment were widely used in the history of mankind and still remain in the arsenal of state coercion. Historically, castration of men was the first to come into use and was very actively used. Even on the ancient Egyptian bas-reliefs, one can see the castration of prisoners. Very often she was punished by prisoners in Assyria, Babylon, and other countries of the Ancient World. Ancient Greece and, moreover, Rome were no exception. Widespread in many states, the practice of using castrated men in harems in order to exclude unwanted communication with the master's women, gave rise to one of the most disgusting forms of this punishment - emasculation (emusculation). According to legend, the Persian king Cyrus once saw how a castrated stallion, a gelding, covers a mare. Then he ordered to cut off a member of all his eunuchs. If during castration only the scrotum and testicles were removed, then during castration everything that dangled outside the man was cut off.

So the ancient Scythians had a custom to take small copper or iron sickles with them to war in order to emasculate those who were captured. Since women of this people fought side by side with their husbands and lovers, they often gave themselves up to this humiliating ritual of the enemy.

During the Roman Empire, the use of this punishment reaches one of its peaks: after the defeat of the rebellious Judea, the captive men were emasculated with a red-hot iron, blinded in one eye and driven into African quarries to extract marble. Roman patricians used eunuchs very often. The situation was no better in the Byzantine Empire, when dozens of eunuchs served in the luxurious women's chambers. As the historian of the Caucasus described, “in those days, the Alanian mountains were ruled by princes from the Romans (Byzantines). They were wolves, not rulers. They castrated handsome boys and sold them into slavery. " It should be noted that in those times, and in later times, two types of eunuchs began to be created in the East. In the first case, when the operation was carried out in childhood, everything was removed - it was dumped, while hundreds of beautiful slaves died as a result of a cruel operation. They were usually bought for harems when the owners were afraid that bored wives and concubines could have fun with such a lover. In adulthood, only the scrotum with testicles was removed. Such a man was able to perform sexual intercourse, but the master's woman could no longer get pregnant from him. Such eunuchs were often purchased for brothels, where they were forced to teach girls to love games.

This barbaric custom did not go into oblivion even in the Middle Ages. It was very often punished by castration for rape or adultery. In many Arab countries at that time, a guilty woman was stoned to death for adultery, a man "was subject to deprivation of his nature under the knife of the executioner." As Nizami wrote, “even the grand vizier could not take a husband’s wife on pain of being beaten on the heels with sticks and deprivation of courage”.

Why this punishment was so widespread, it must be remembered that most peoples deified the male organ, the signs of the phallus, the standing male member, were found all over the world. Often, his social position also depended on a man's sexual strength. Thus, in a number of African countries, a tribal leader was killed when he could not satisfy a certain number of women. For example, in the Bible (in Deuteronomy, if I am not mistaken) it was said "whoever has a yatra crushed or a genital member is cut off cannot enter the Kingdom of God." Even communion with God was refused to one who was castrated. Deprived of male parts became, as it were, an outcast, a pariah in society.

When in the XIV century the so-called "Nelsky Tower" case took place, accused of seducing the Burgundian princesses - the wives of the princes of France, the knights d'Aunay were sentenced to a terrible punishment - their legs and arms were broken with an iron crowbar, and the "executioners, calculated by the simultaneous movement , they threw high into the air that which plunged the brothers d'One into a mortal sin, ”then they flayed their skin alive and finally beheaded. Their bodies were tied under the armpits with a rope and hung on the gallows for birds to peck at them. Castration was part of a devilishly brutal "skilled execution" in England.

Sometimes castration was used as a weapon of barbaric reprisals - the Merovingian queen of France Fredegond, famous for her cruelty and debauchery, if her lover did not completely satisfy her, ordered to pull out his genitals. Back in the 19th century, the no less cruel sister of the Turkish Sultan Selim, Teishe, lured young handsome men to her place, and after a stormy night either ordered them to be drowned, or "with the help of a well-known operation, make Teishe remain the last woman in their life." Those lucky enough to die did not escape this shameful fate.

During the infamous St. Bartholomew's Night in France, d'Aubigne described how crowds of courtiers "with their delicate hands removed the clothes from the murdered men in order to make sure how great their belongings were." These, famous for their depravity, beauties were not satisfied with a simple spectacle, some disfigured corpses, cutting off their male parts. In Ancient Ireland, it was described how, after the battle, the corpses of killed enemies were desecrated, cutting off causal places for men, the corpses of women (who in this country fought, like among the Scythians, next to men in the role of chariots or archers) were raped, various objects were stuck into their vaginas. Even in our time, both the German Nazis and their more modern followers did not miss an opportunity to thrust a severed member into the mouth of a murdered man.

Castration of men was widespread in antiquity and in the Middle Ages to train eunuchs (keepers of the harem), as well as among boy singers to preserve their childish voice (soprano). Castration was used as a means of revenge and punishment of prisoners not only in the ancient and Middle Ages, but also during the Great Patriotic War by the German fascists.

Of some interest is this operation, which was carried out earlier for religious purposes among the eunuchs. So, among the priests of the Phoenician goddess Astarte (war and sexual love) there was a custom of self-castration, the same ritual existed in the ancient Egyptian mysteries of fertilization of Isis. In Russia, the castration of persons of both sexes was used by adherents of the religious sect of eunuchs, which appeared in the 18th century. In the first time of the existence of the skopstvo they used the so-called. “Fiery baptism”, which consisted in the fact that an adherent of this sect was removed the testicles with part of the scrotum with the help of a red-hot iron. In the future, various cutting tools were used for this operation, and hot iron was used only to stop bleeding. This operation of removing the testicles, according to the scopic teaching, is the "first cleansing" or "small seal". The "big" or "royal seal" is a combination of the removal of the testicles with the removal of the penis. This operation is usually performed in a sitting position of the operated and after preliminary ligation of the base of the scrotum and penis. After these operations, extensive and very characteristic scars remain.

What happens to a person after such mutilation?

The consequences of castration in a man's body largely depend on the age at which the operation was performed. With castration in childhood before puberty, insufficient development of the reproductive apparatus is noted. As shown by the autopsies of eunuchs, the seminal vesicles and prostate gland are atrophic, the penis is small and underdeveloped. Hair on the body is scanty, on the limbs and at the anus is absent. In the armpits and on the genitals, hairiness is not very pronounced. In the pubic area, hair grows in a female pattern. On the head of the castrates, the hair is thick, and they almost do not go bald (this was pointed out by Aristotle). The face is beardless, there is a small downy on the cheeks and on the upper lip; in old age, a beard grows on the chin and at the corners of the lips, as in some older women. After castration, produced before puberty, there is an increased growth of bones in length as a result of prolonged preservation of the bone growth zone. The growth of long bones leads to a discrepancy between the length of the limbs and the trunk. Therefore, among the castrates (eunuchoids), people of tall stature are quite often found. The skull of the castrates is small, the jaws are strongly developed, the superciliary arches are protruding, the root of the nose is sunken, the protrusion of the occipital bone is smoothed. The pelvis is wide due to bone growth. The voice is high, in old age - lower. The larynx stops in its development, its protrusion (the Adam's apple) is smoothed out, so that the Adam's apple looks like a woman's. The facial expression is usually constantly tired, indifferent, the temperament is very calm and sluggish (maybe this was due to the castration of obstinate slaves). If castration was carried out in adulthood, then sexual desire persists for a long time, often even the ability to have sexual intercourse is preserved (hormones of the glands located inside the body work here).

A drawing of their Arabian miniature - three eunuchs carrying a chest (note their effeminate figures).

Externally castrated men are of two types: 1 - tall, thin, with a sharp imbalance in the body as a result of lengthening the limbs; swinging gait, slow movements, excess fat deposition on the pubis, abdomen and thighs, this usually happens with castration of children; 2 - obese, when an adult male is deposited, fat is deposited in large quantities in a female pattern on the thighs, buttocks, chest, abdomen, pubis and eyelids. These deposits of fat give them a feminine appearance.

I must say that in our time, castration is used as a means of coercion and punishment. When an international tribunal investigated South Africa's crimes in Namibia in 1989, a number of witnesses testified, "We also often castrated SWAPO supporters who were captured if they refused to go over to our side." The prisoners were castrated during the events in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. Very often, the threat of castration, its imitation (cuts on male organs) was used during interrogation as a kind of torture. This threat has a very strong effect on men, since for most, the threat of turning into a sexless creature is worse than death.

In a number of African countries, cutting off the penis was used, so in the legends of the marin anim (Papua New Guinea), it was said that when he insulted the daughter of one of the leaders of another tribe (it does not say exactly how, maybe he wanted to force the girl to love?) Bamaran, was captured, his mother cut off his penis with a sharp sheet and threw him into the river. Such punishment, although it did not disfigure the unfortunate person like castration, deprived him of any possibility of intimate contact.

A slightly different punishment was used for women. Since her sex glands are in the abdominal cavity, any attempt to pull them out ended in death.

Of course, in those days, there were times when the executioners did not care what happened to the captive after the execution. There were executions when the uterus was pulled out to a suspended or crucified victim, often piercing it with a hook and hanging a load. There are known examples when the same Mongolian or Chinese soldiers ripped open a woman's belly and pulled out the uterus, "so that she could not bear future enemies in the womb." But all this was much less common.

Usually, when punishing women, they resorted to burning (with fire or a hot iron, boiling water or oil) or cutting off her external genital organs - the clitoris and internal labia in order to deprive the convict of the ability to receive sexual satisfaction. Sometimes the nipples were additionally removed.

There were cases when, during torture, a woman was hung over a cauldron of boiling water or oil, so that when she was lowered, her intimate parts would be one of the first to be burned and interrogated, threatening to disfigure the unfortunate woman.

Most sources do not say why women were subjected to such torture. Usually they were wives, girlfriends or relatives of enemy leaders, leaders of uprisings, or simply unfortunate ones who somehow greatly annoyed the powerful. An attempt to reconstruct a similar procedure is given in the story.

The situation changed dramatically with the discovery of X-rays, which had a detrimental effect on the ovaries and testicles. First, in the 1920s, x-rays were used to sterilize hardened criminals and criminals in a number of American states. Then, during the Second World War, the German Nazis substituted thousands of women and men of "inferior" peoples for X-ray installations, burning their sex glands. Talking about this punishment, you should talk about sterilization.

By sterilization, in contrast to castration, is understood not the removal of the gonads and not the shutdown of their function, but the creation of conditions that preclude fertilization. This is usually the ligation or cutting of the vas deferens in men and the fallopian tubes in women. Already in ancient times, the scrotum of condemned men was squeezed, after which their injured testicles could no longer continue the birth, less often a jerk was used for it, with a precisely calculated effort, fragile vas deferens were torn, the organs remained in place, but as a man, the person was already a little what is capable of. Appearing at the end of the 19th century, sterilization first began to be used as a means of contraception, the followers of Malthus recommended that it be carried out in women from the poorest classes of society (well, freaks!). However, in view of the need for a rather complex operation, its popularity has slightly decreased. At the beginning of this century, the laws of some states of the United States introduced forced sterilization of hardened criminals, some of the mentally ill. It was most widespread in the Third Reich, when, according to the law of 1938, the mentally ill, criminals, and later also handicapped persons were subjected to it. What this term meant is shown by the following example, given at the Nuremberg trial - one witness testified “being summoned to the commission on racial issues, he could not name the dates of birth of Hitler, Goebbels during the survey. He was accused of racial inferiority and sterilized. " There was another example “In 1940, one of the German women, Greta S., was tried. It was established that while in Poland, she married a Polish officer and gave birth to three children. For racial shame, she and her children were sentenced to severe punishment. Children were attributed to be sterilized and sent to one of the state orphanages. Mother died in a concentration camp. " So conceived by the pioneers of eugenics as a means of improving the human race, sterilization has become a weapon of prosecution. In some concentration camps, menacing orders were posted “Although sexual relations between prisoners are not encouraged, the attitude towards them is tolerant, pregnancy is another matter. Inadequate people have no right to get pregnant. Pregnant convicted women will be subjected to forced abortion and sterilized. Men guilty of pregnancy will be executed. " True, such "humanism" did not last long, somewhere until 1941, when the camps were rigidly divided into male and female zones and any violation of order, up to a glance at their spouse, could be punished with death. When the effect of X-rays on the sex glands was discovered, the Germans were delighted. Dr. Sprech (shame on all German doctors), brought an X-ray unit to Auschwitz, irradiated 300 Jews, for a week they worked on a general basis, then they were castrated and their genitals examined. There was noisy delight, Shprekh and Mengele wrote to Himmler that “weapons are open, akin to combat. If we can protect our enemies, that is, they can work, but will not multiply, the racial issue will be resolved by itself. " To celebrate, Shprekh even promised to sterilize 300,000 people a month (well, a Stakhanovite). True, after a couple of months it turned out that X-rays did not work on women 100%, and irradiated men, in case of an overdose, which was inevitable on the stream, died like flies. So this question is hanging in the air.

Since X-ray is actually radiation castration with all its consequences, now only surgical sterilization is used, often with the help of laparoscopes and other modern equipment. Unfortunately, the sages trying to use it for political purposes have not been extinct, as it is widely used by the Chinese government in the fight against the women's movement in Tibet and in a number of other countries. Since for the majority of women, motherhood is an integral part of family happiness, this threat has a destructive effect on the psyche of victims of such repressions ...

The medical term "castration" is a definition of complete or partial suppression of the gonads.

Male castration is the removal of the testicles or reduction (termination) of their functionality by X-ray, chemical, hormonal or surgical methods.

This operation is carried out for medical reasons, but it can also be used forcibly in order to punish the offender, depriving him of the ability to have sexual intercourse (chemical castration).

After castration, the body of a man undergoes serious changes at the physical, mental and hormonal levels.

After the operation, numerous complications are possible, therefore, there must be good reasons for castration, which have no other solution than resection or a decrease in the function of the genitals, namely the genital glands.

Castration of people in history

Surgical intervention to remove the testicles has been common since ancient times: as torture, punishment, slavery (eunuchs in the harems of eastern countries).

Later, castration became one of the ways to treat various diseases, including mental disorders. Historically, castration is one of the first surgical procedures using anesthesia.

Castrated people were also present in Russia: at the end of the 18th century, a religious sect of eunuchs formed on Russian lands, whose members independently performed emasculation (removal of the testicles along with the penis) in order to serve their ideals.

Until the 19th century Italy practiced the technique of castrating boys with unique singing abilities. The operation was carried out to preserve the unusual timbres of the voice: soprano and contralto.

The castrato's voice was distinguished by high tonality, flexibility and effeminacy, but at the same time it possessed more power, so he performed any lengthy virtuoso ranges. In Italy, castration could be done at any barber shop.

Various methods of castration

There are several different ways to castrate:

Features of the procedure

Medical indications for castration in men may be bilateral testicular swelling or refractory prostate growths. In these situations, a testicular resection (orchidectomy) is recommended.

In case of malignant formation, the genital glands are not necessarily completely removed, the patient may be prescribed enucleation, resection of the parenchyma.

Operable intervention is performed only after confirmation of a non-therapeutic neoplasm.

As a result of resection in a man's body, the following modifications begin:

• hypoderm develops;
• hair growth is female;
• decreased libido;
• the prostate atrophies.

If the operation was performed in a patient who has not reached puberty, then the structure of the bone tissue changes:

• long and short bones are lengthened;
• cranial bones stop growing;
• active expression of the frontal bone, jaw begins.

As a result of chemical, radiation, surgical castration, the work of the entire endocrine system of the body is disrupted.

Preparation and execution of the operation

Before surgery, a thorough examination is performed with instrumental and laboratory methods:

• clinical analysis of urine;
• study of blood biochemistry (determination of the level of bilirubin, creatinine, protein, hemoglobin, cholesterol);
• diagnostics for hepatitis, syphilis, immunodeficiency;
• x-ray examination;
• electrocardiography;
• hormonal examination.

In the presence of any additional pathologies (except for the testicles and prostate gland), the patient is referred for additional examinations to specialized specialists.

Several weeks before surgery, blood thinners are stopped.

The operation itself does not present any difficulty (including for medical reasons), the intake of other medications depends on the individual characteristics of the body and indications for the use of drugs.

Sewing, tying and dissection of the annular ligament that releases the egg is performed. The duct duct is connected and cut off.

After that, the remaining sections of the spermatic cord are sutured, tied up and dissected, a suture is applied, and the operation is completed.

Important! In practice, a more subtle plastic procedure is also used with the preservation of the protein sac of the testicles and the cosmetic visibility of the genitals.

During any surgical interventions on the testicles, complications do not arise, patients can be released home directly on the day of the operation.

Consequences and complications

A month after surgery, many patients develop post-castration syndrome. Complications capture the endocrine, vegetative-vascular system, affect mental health.

The most common consequences of the operation:

• hot flashes;
• heart palpitations;
• excessive sweating;
• recurrent headaches;
• hypertension;
• obesity;
• osteoporosis;
• mental disorders;
• depression;
• memory impairment;
• chronic fatigue syndrome;
• atherosclerosis;
• impotence;
• diabetes.

The most negative consequence that can happen in patients is the likelihood of adaptation of the tumor tissue to the treatment, the tumor will continue to grow.

Postoperative Syndrome Treatment

Before prescribing therapeutic treatment, it is necessary to make sure that the causes of the symptoms are precisely the operation that has been performed, and not other pathologies.

To determine the etiology, the patient's chronic illness records are examined. All therapeutic appointments depend on the characteristics and general condition of the patient in each case.

Therapeutic therapy of postoperative complications is carried out in a complex, which is:

• the use of sedatives, restorative agents, antipsychotics, vitamin complexes, tranquilizers;
• physical therapy classes;
• hydrotherapy (rubdown, dousing);
• physiotherapy;
• additional hormonal treatment.

The prognosis of rehabilitation depends on the individual characteristics of the patient's body. Basically, it is possible to stop vegetative-vascular and neurological manifestations. Only endocrine-metabolic processes require a long rehabilitation, replacement treatment.

Sterilization, or vasectomy

Surgery is often confused with castration, but the differences are huge:

• castration involves the removal of the testicles, or as in the case of chemical therapy: deprivation of the opportunity to have sexual intercourse;
• sterilization (vasectomy) is a blockage of the reproductive system, after which potency is fully preserved.

Surgical interventions of this kind began 50 years ago, now it is a very popular method of family planning. As a rule, people come to sterilization on a voluntary basis. The reasons for having a vasectomy are different, from unwillingness to have children to genetic disease.

Surgical intervention is not difficult, has practically no contraindications (except for generally accepted indications for operations), but it also requires careful preparation and preliminary examination.

The procedure consists in blocking the seminal duct, blocking the sperm from getting into the sperm. The procedure lasts no more than 30 minutes, after the operation, one hour later, the patient can leave the clinic.

Positive and negative sides of sterilization

Sterilization is a voluntary procedure, so the decision is entirely up to the man personally. In some cases, with some complications, the procedure can lead to impotence.

Positive sides

1. Male sterilization is an irreversible procedure, unlike chemical castration. After surgical exposure, you can not worry about the measures of protection against unwanted pregnancy. 2 months after the procedure, no sperm are found in the semen.
2. The operation itself is performed quickly and can be performed in the clinic.
3. The sutures remain completely invisible, practically invisible on the scrotum.
4. Sterilization does not affect the general condition of the body, erection, sensations during intercourse.
5. The operation itself partially rejuvenates the body (sometimes it is practiced specifically for rejuvenation).
6. Sexual life after sterilization is stable.
7. The quantity, consistency of the seed does not change.
8. It has no side effects, does not lead to obesity and does not affect the state of the body.

Negative sides

1. Before the operation, you must come to terms with the fact that more children will not be able to conceive. The operation is mostly irreversible, and the possibility of restoring fertility after sterilization is extremely small. It is possible to restore the ducts within five years after the procedure, but after the reconstruction there is no guarantee that it will be possible to conceive.
2. In addition, some complications are possible: wound suppuration, bleeding, hematoma formation.
3. Since sperm cells are completely removed from the sperm only after two months, it is necessary to use additional contraceptives at this time.
4. There are negative consequences that can lead to impotence and other sexual dysfunctions in the future - these are orchitis and epidymitis. Such complications are possible if the areas of the testicles responsible for these functions are affected during the operation.
5. Antisperm antibodies can begin to form.

Final history

The clinical manifestations of castration depend on the age period in which the operation was performed. The castration of boys leads to enormous disturbances in the entire child's body, both physically and mentally.

Oriectomy of adults who have had sexual experience will no longer bring such irreparable consequences.

As a rule, castration of adults does not imply sexual dysfunctions, but problems with the vegetative-vascular system and hormonal imbalance cannot be avoided.

Several decades ago, chemical sterilization was developed, which is considered the most humane and safe for the physical and mental health of a person.

This technique is used for the temporary repayment of sexual functions in men. This is a completely reversible process, since it is carried out only as a result of taking medication, after stopping the use of drugs, testosterone levels, libido and erection return to normal.

In case of prostate diseases, sometimes castration is the only way out of this situation, so if this procedure was prescribed for medical reasons, then there are simply no other options. Also, resection is sometimes necessary for traumatic damage to the testicles in order to prevent the development of gangrene, blood poisoning and other life-threatening pathologies.

The most incredible in the world - sex, rituals, customs Talalay Stanislav

Religious castration

Religious castration

In the past, people were castrated for religious purposes.

Since the genitals were considered the most valuable treasure of a man, they, accordingly, were considered as a completely worthy sacrifice to the gods. Cybele in Ancient Greece and the Syrian goddess Astarte from Hierapolis were especially demanding in this regard.

The services dedicated to these goddesses in the temples were performed only by castrated priests. The priests - eunuchs constantly demonstrated their zeal towards the goddess Astarte, especially during religious holidays, when large crowds of people flocked to the temple.

If such a magnificent celebration took place right on the street, then the eunuchs-priests slashed themselves with knives. The sight of the blood and suffering of the clergy had such a powerful effect on believers that some even decided to undergo immediate castration.

The famous English anthropologist James Fraser wrote:

“The man threw off his clothes, ran out of the crowd screaming, grabbed one of the daggers prepared for this purpose and immediately performed castration. Then he ran like a madman through the streets of the city, squeezing the bloody part of his body in his hand, from which he got rid of at the end, throwing it into one of the houses.

The newly baked castrat was given women's clothing with women's jewelry, which he was now destined to wear for the rest of his life. Similar sacrifices of male flesh were performed in honor of the goddess Cybele in ancient Greece during the celebration known as the Day of Blood.

In ancient Egypt, mountains of newly cut off genitals could be seen under altars, where hundreds of young men were castrated during the male initiation ceremony. As early as 1896, D.R. Farnel reported cases of religious castration among the Ba Ubwede and Ba-Sundi tribes in Zaire.

Eunuchs have played a very important role in some regions of the world in the past. In China, they occupied a fairly high social position.

In Persia, some eunuchs became shahs, and one of the reasons for this rise was that they did not have children, so after their death there was no dispute over succession to the throne. In imperial China, it was customary to keep severed genitals in a special casket until the end of life, and this divine gift was buried with its owner. Eunuchs often demonstrated it when hiring.

Although the Qur'an forbids castration, eunuchs nonetheless played an important role in many Islamic houses. They were ideally suited for harems, where male servants were not allowed.

It is interesting to note that there was a special type of eunuch, the so-called "elgazi". Their testicles were removed, while preserving the penis itself, which did not lose the ability to erect. These men were very popular with women in harems, as they were reputed to be passionate lovers. Some of them became, in essence, the owners of the harem.

Here's what one of them said:

“For everything created by God, man has his own application. He, to whom the glory of Heaven belongs, created man's hands to grab, legs to walk, eyes to see, ears to hear, a penis to multiply, and so on. All of this is true of all parts of the human body, except for two balls.

There is no use for them, so one day a slave took a knife and cut them off from me, and since then I have enjoyed a thousand women, and not one of them had a child from me. "

Among the Hottentots of South Africa, it was believed that a man should cut off one testicle in order to prevent the birth of twins, for twins, according to universal belief, brought misfortune.

Removal of one testicle was common among the inhabitants of the Caroline Islands (Micronesia), where sixteen-year-old boys were semi-casted, obeying a common ritual. But they could grab the second, in order to demonstrate thereby their sincere devotion to their leader, especially during the war.

From the book Secret Societies and Sects [Cult Assassins, Freemasons, Religious Unions and Orders, Satanists and Fanatics] author Makarova Natalia Ivanovna

16. Religious organization "Tradition, Family, Property" (TCC) The religious organization "Tradition, Family, Property" (TCC) was founded in 1960 by the Brazilian lawyer Plinio Correra di Oliveira. He did not hide the fact that the code of his sect largely borrowed from

From the book of Barbara. Ancient Germans. Life, religion, culture author Todd Malcolm

Chapter 6 Religious Life It is fair to say that the sources for the beliefs of the early Germans date back to the Bronze Age, since the prehistory of the Germanic religion is well reflected in the petroglyphs of Scandinavia. Mythological and religious scenes presented there

From the Inca book. Gen. Culture. Religion by Boden Louis

Religious sculpture If we take one of Tacitus' statements literally, then we would not expect to find religious sculpture in Northern Europe at all. According to Roman historians, the Germans believed that the production of anthropomorphic images or statues of a deity

From the book of Seljuks [Nomads - conquerors of Asia Minor] author Rice Tamara Talbot

From the book Byzantines [Heirs of Rome (liters)] author Rice David Talbot

Chapter 4 RELIGIOUS AND SECOND THOUGHT AND LITERATURE One did not live who did not devote his life to knowledge. The statement of the prophet Muhammad Already at a relatively early stage in their history, Arab thinkers fell under the influence of the works of the great thinkers of India and Ancient Greece. Exactly

From the book of Monsieur Gurdjieff author Povel Louis

The Religious Basis of Artistic Crafts A similar fascination with religious motives is typical for small forms of art - art crafts. This is especially true for ivory carving, metalwork and enamel. The bone carvings are wonderful and

From the book On the methods and techniques of foreign intelligence agencies and their Trotskyite-Bukharin agents author Zakovsky Leonid

CHAPTER NINE "Earthly life after halfway ..." Georgette LeBlanc assessed by Colette. Catherine Mansfield had little understanding of Gurdjieff. You should be in good health. Gurdjieff and the multiplication of obstacles. The fear of never finding yourself again. We must be plowed like a field.

From the book Harem before and after Alexandra Anastasia Lisowska author Nikolai Nepomniachtchi

B. Candidov. Religious agents of German fascism An article from the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" on June 28, 1937. German fascists widely use religious organizations to strengthen their positions in the "third empire" and beyond, in particular for

From the book Cathedral yard author Alexander Schipkov

Religious castration Religious fanaticism promoted castration. The clergymen from the Gaul (Oroma) tribe in Abyssinia, as well as the Syrian goddess Cybele, identified themselves with their deities, losing their male characteristics. In Europe in the III century, a sect,