Looking for media and books about castrated minors

[Maxeemka (imported)]

Looking for media and books about castrated minors, e.g. Vatican choir boy's during the early modern period of history, children eunuch slave's in brothels of imperial Rome and previously in Ancient Greek mystery orgies, baby boys castrated for medical purposes (intersexual genetic disorders, mosaicism) and teen boys castrated after injuries, etc. in fiction and non-fiction books, documentary and feature films, theatre plays and playwrites, artwork and sculpture, music... and so on

Thx a lot.

[kristoff]

Why are you looking for this kind of material?

[Maxeemka (imported)]

kristoff

The inner world of emotions, feelings and experiences of castrated persons through their childhood and adolescence interests me a lot.

Also, I find the aesthetics of agamic and even sexless growing up of a child very important for behavioral sciences.

[_g (imported)]

kristoff

The inner world of emotions, feelings and experiences of castrated persons through their childhood and adolescence interests me a lot.

Also, I find the aesthetics of agamic and even sexless growing up of a child very important for behavioral sciences.

Good luck finding anything, as the NEW thought police may charge you with child porn, as its the lastest witch hunt.

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[Cainanite (imported)]

you can find quite a few stories regarding the topic you are interested in, in the Fiction Archive:

here (http://www.eunuchworld.org/)

Look for Pilgrimage To Norcia - The Story Of Tommaso Pinetti and The Choir Boy, both by Il Musico. Wonderfully written stories well worth the read. There are a lot of others that are coming soon. Keep checking back, and you'll discover a wealth of stories written in the exact subject you are looking for.

The stories on the archive are all fiction, but that doesn't mean they are without the insights and emotion that interest you. As to movies, films and documentary, there is not much out there. I remember a good one about gender it identity. If I can find it, I'll post back here later.

[erikboy (imported)]

Anyone could be an internet police setting up traps for simpleminded with such postings.

But if your interest is purely academic then you could find historic facts by yourself. It seems you know a lot already.

You could travel to India and blend into Hijra community. If you wish to have real stories.

[JesusA (imported)]

While there is quite a bit of FICTION and fantasy about those castrated as children, there is very little factual material to provide any insight into their minds. Reports by outsiders tend toward the medical and/or sensational and the fiction certainly cannot be trusted for any accuracy. A few exceptions can be found in the Bibliography (http://www.eunuch.org/forums/showthread ... bliography).

There seems to be quite a bit about the Skoptsy in Russian (which I can’t read), as well as a bit in English, French, and German (which I can). Laura Engelstein, in her book Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom relies partly on autobiographical writings of Nikifor Petrovich Latyshev, which were published in Russian. Latyshev was castrated as a small boy and wrote when he was in his 60s and 70s. Engelstein also has an extensive bibliography of materials in Russian in her book. Both Eugéne Pittard and Ionel Rapaport interviewed members of the Skoptsy for their books, both written in French. The Skoptsy lived in areas from Romania in the southwest, though Ukraine and Russia, to Siberia in the east.

Roger Freitas’ book Portrait of a Castrato is a biography of Atto Melani and relies partly on Melani’s writings for insight into his personality. Mary Frandsen’s long article Eunuchi Conjugium: The marriage of a castrato in early modern Germany also gives insight into the mind of a single individual.

Jia Yinghua’s The Last Eunuch of China: The Life of Sun Yaoting is based on a series of interviews with Sun and much of it is presented in the form of direct quotations from him.