Title: 13 Reasons Cultures Throughout History Brutally Castrated People
Headings: 13 Reasons Cultures Throughout History Brutally Castrated People
Weird History
13 Reasons Cultures Throughout History Brutally Castrated People
During The Renaissance, Italians Castrated Young Boys To Turn Them Into Sexually Appealing Singers
Sex Offenders Are Still Surgically Or Chemically Castrated In Western Cultures
18th-Century Russian Christian Mystics Castrated Themselves
In The Byzantine Empire, Eunuchs Were Some Of The Best Military Generals
Rapists Were Castrated In Post-Revolutionary Virginia
The Normans Castrated Enemies To Assert Their Dominance
Early Christians Castrated Themselves To Prove Their Devotion
Castration Was A Long-Standing Punishment In China
Chinese Eunuchs Were Key Imperial Officials
The Ottoman Empire Used Eunuchs To Manage Harems
Ethiopians May Have Castrated Italian Soldiers In The Late 19th Century
Southeastern Tributary States Sent Eunuchs To China
Medieval Law Castrated Pederasts And Rapists

Content: It's unclear how Narses became a eunuch, but he went from imperial guard to grand chamberlain under Justinian, ultimately becoming one of his most loyal and trusted men. Narses was sent to Italy to fight against the Ostrogoth kingdom during the 550s and became the prefect at Ravenna. Having a governing eunuch of Ravenna became a common aspect of Byzantine rule in the western half of the Mediterranean. From the late sixth century until the end of the exarchate in 751, several of the exarchs were eunuchs. Photo: mandalariangirl / flickr / CC-BY 2.0
Rapists Were Castrated In Post-Revolutionary Virginia
In 1778, Thomas Jefferson wrote a revised law for the commonwealth of Virginia, hoping to remove the death penalty from capital offenses. As the head of a committee tasked with revising all of Virginia's laws, the group proposed that "whosoever shall be guilty of Rape, Polygamy, or Sodomy with man or woman shall be punished, if a man, by castration, if a woman, by cutting thro' the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch diameter at the least." Historians debate whether Jefferson meant this law to be lex talionis, where the perpetrator of a crime is punished by injury to the part of his anatomy most comparable to where the victim of the crime was harmed. Photo: Unknown / WikiMedia Commons / Public Domain
The Normans Castrated Enemies To Assert Their Dominance
When the Normans arrived in southern Italy and Sicily during the 11th and 12th centuries, they used castration as discipline for the most heinous crimes.