Title: Castration - Wikipedia
Headings: Castration
Castration
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History
Africa and the Middle East
Europe
Myth
Slavery
Punishment
Modern era
China
Non-Han peoples
Korea
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Americas
Iran
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Prevention of crime
Criticism
Music
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Hinduism
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Medical consequences
Psychoanalysis and literary theory
Chemical castration
Animals
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Content: 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. Reportedly, about two of three boys died, but those who survived drew high prices. Europe
Myth
In ancient Greek mythology, Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, after the latter imprisoned the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires . Slavery
The employment or enslavement of eunuchs (castrated men) as a separate gender role was practiced in classical and Roman antiquity and continued into the Middle Ages. In the 10th century, slave traders in Verdun in France and in Becâne ( Pechina ), Spain castrated captives who were then enslaved as harem attendants in Al-Andalus. Punishment
Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire reports castration of defeated Byzantine Greeks at the hands of the Frankish marquis Theobald of Camerino and Spoleto in the course of 10th-century wars in Italy.