Title: Castration - Wikipedia
Headings: Castration
Castration
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Africa and the Middle East
Europe
Myth
Slavery
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Modern era
China
Non-Han peoples
Korea
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Iran
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Prevention of crime
Criticism
Music
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Psychoanalysis and literary theory
Chemical castration
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Content: Castration has also been used in the United States for sex offenders. Trans women often undergo orchiectomy, as do some other transgender people. Orchiectomy may be performed as part of a more general sex reassignment surgery, either before or during other procedures. It may also be performed on someone who does not desire, or cannot afford, further surgery. Involuntary castration appears in the history of warfare, sometimes used by one side to torture or demoralize their enemies. It was practiced to extinguish opposing male lineages and thus allow the victor to sexually possess the defeated group's women. [ 2]
Africa and the Middle East
Chief Eunuch of Abdul Hamid II (1912)
Over the 13 centuries of the Arab slave trade in Africa, unknown numbers of Africans were enslaved and shipped to the Middle East. "The Caliphate in Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7,000 black eunuchs and 4,000 white eunuchs in his palace." The Arab slave trade typically dealt in the sale of castrated male slaves. Black boys at the age of eight to twelve had their scrotum and penis completely amputated.