Effects of Castration, chapt. 2a
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:55 am
Effects of Castration on Men and Women: Accidental, Voluntary and Involuntary Castration; Eunuchism and History Medical Treatment and Aspects
II. EUNUCHS CASTRATED MEN
Eunuchs castrated men have often been said to be men who are not men. This is not altogether true. Nor can the eunuch always be called a castrated man. When castration is performed upon the small male child, that child, though he live to a ripe old age, never actually becomes a man. On the other hand, males castrated after they were fully developed men, have married and have been known to have regular coitus.
Even normal males are part male and part female. This is the natural status. It has been well stated, however, that: The eunuch is neither he, she nor it, but possesses some of the traits of all three.
At one time in history men became religiously fanatical and, devoting themselves wholly to their religions, either castrated themselves or had the castration operation performed by someone else. It is perhaps because of this practice that the ribald saying, There are three sexes men, women and the clergy, originated.
Mythology is rich in legends. These legends are interesting. Men and women of today who are in high positions label the ancient mythologies as what they are mythologies. These same men and women label their own mythologies of today as realities. Mythologies of the present day are so labeled by a precious few. A few centuries hence these mythologies will be correctly labeled. The Babylonian legend of the Descent of Ishtar sheds interesting light upon ancient eunuchism.
Indeed, the Descent of Ishtar is regarded by many as one of mankinds oldest stories. Ishtar was the goddess of love. This is tantamount to: The goddess of sexual activity. Ishtar descended below that is to say into the hollowness of the earth. In her descent she passed through numerous doors, giving up a garment at each door. She was originally depicted as wearing and dancing with seven veils. After passing through the last door we can well imagine her nudeness. She was thus lost from sight and there followed a period on earth when there was neither love nor loving. There were no sexual relations between men and women. It is even written in the legend that: The bull did not approach the cow. Even man of antiquity howled when his sources of supply were taken from him.
The gods held a council. There were many gods in those ancient days. The number seems to have been greatly reduced and seems rather aptly expressed in that saying to Thomas Jefferson: The incomprehensible jargon of trinitarian arithmetic that three is one and one are three. The council admitted that life was fast disappearing from the face of the earth and that something must be done. Ishtar must be brought back to the face of the earth. But who could bring her back? Could a female of the species be trusted to do this? Would a female be powerful enough to withstand the hardships of the journey? Could one or more females even succeed? And after all, should a female be sent on such a mission? Would this not be an affront to the goddess herself, quite naturally a female?
Would it be proper conduct to send a virile male? What of the demeanor of these two the beautiful goddess, and a virile male, especially with the goddess in the nude, on the return journey? No. This would never do. And so, the castrated a male created the eunuch. The eunuch, as a messenger and guide, descended into the hollow of the earth, and, unperturbed by the charms of the beautiful goddess in the nude the great mother of sexual passion led her back to the light of the earths surface, to restore eroticism and reproduction to humanity.
Quite naturally we regard the legend with amusement and we are perfectly assured within ourselves that no goddess ever descended into the hollow of the earth. At some time in history it was inevitable that some reason must be given for this particular kind of mans inhumanity to man.
As we move along the historical scale into biblical history we find that the making of eunuchs was quite popular even with the holy men of the Bible.
During the days of unbridled savagery when biblical history was in the making it was the practice or custom of victors in war to bring home, as trophies, the sexual organs of the defeated enemy. History presupposes some sort of civilization back in those days when God condescended to appear in person on earth and to talk with the creature called mere man. But the savage custom of cutting away the sexual organs of the defeated enemy and displaying these severed organs as trophies of victory was less humane than the practice among the aboriginal Americans of using the scalps of the vanquished in the same manner and history does not credit the average American Indian with having been civilized when discovered by Columbus. Even today the American Indian is regarded as having been without civilization in the 15th century regardless of the actual historical knowledge of the high state of civilization attained by the Incas, Aztecs, and others, ages before the time of Columbus.
Old King David, called a holy man of God, broke into biblical lore as a great victor when he carried home, to one of his brides, and at her request, the severed sexual organs of an enemy. David, Solomon, et al., the et al. including the leading men of Bible times, had created for themselves many eunuchs so that these eunuchs might be trusted to attend the harems of the mighty men of holy days. It was supposed that the eunuchs were sexless creatures and incapable of treading with heavy foot upon the virgin soils and spoils of their masters. But eunuchs were, and often are, capable of having sexual intercourse.
Some of the Chinese and other Oriental men of wealth, owners of eunuchs and harems, did discover, in time, that their wives and eunuchs were not to be trusted too far. They discovered that the eunuchs were having intercourse with the many wives of their masters entrusted to their supposed sexless care. They promptly invented a remedy. The caused the penises of the eunuchs to be amputated. The operation of choice (not the choice of the eunuchs, you may rest assured) was the cautery. A red hot or white hot iron or knife was used for severing the male organ against the belly.
One passage in the Bible is spoken of by G. Mason Williams, writing in the magazine Sexology (New York), as being avowedly difficult to understand. Doubtless Williams (who does some good writing) failed to remember that the passage could be regarded as just another of the common biblical incongruities. The passage referred to by Author Williams reads: There are those who are eunuchs from their mothers womb, and there are those who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Williams explained that many religious thinkers, brooding on this, mutilated themselves as did the famous scholar Origen.
It seems strange that the mind of a scientific writer should almost completely miss the significant point. The eunuch being a man whose testicles have been removed, could not be a eunuch from his mothers womb. The biblical writers were ignorant of the condition known as cryptorchidism the condition in which the testicles fail to descend but are retained either in the inguinal canal or in the abdomen. [I have yet to read any theologian who interpretes eunuchs from their mothers wombs as refering to cryptorchidism, but it makes far more sense than most theological interpretations. It would strongly reinforce the minority view that Jesus really did mean literal castration for true Christians. Maybe the Skoptzy were right! Try this on your Fundamentalist friends. JA]
When it is considered that eunuchs (castrated men) have been the husbands of healthy and passionate women, it is not surprising that the wife of Potiphar, chief of the eunuchs of Pharaoh, sought to seduce Joseph. If pictures are to be given even fanciful credence, both Potiphars wife and Joseph were healthy, well-sexed persons. Joseph (not a eunuch), so the story goes, landed in prison because he refused to be seduced by the sexually competent wife of the chief of eunuchs. Is it to be marvelled at that someone originated the saying: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?
The spread of eunuchism was from Babylon and Egypt to the Roman Empire and all of the great kingdoms of the East. The Emperor Domitian is credited with having issued an imperial edict prohibiting the practice of castration. History records that the favorite youth of Domitian was Earinus a eunuch.
(continued as Chapt. 2, pt. 1)
II. EUNUCHS CASTRATED MEN
Eunuchs castrated men have often been said to be men who are not men. This is not altogether true. Nor can the eunuch always be called a castrated man. When castration is performed upon the small male child, that child, though he live to a ripe old age, never actually becomes a man. On the other hand, males castrated after they were fully developed men, have married and have been known to have regular coitus.
Even normal males are part male and part female. This is the natural status. It has been well stated, however, that: The eunuch is neither he, she nor it, but possesses some of the traits of all three.
At one time in history men became religiously fanatical and, devoting themselves wholly to their religions, either castrated themselves or had the castration operation performed by someone else. It is perhaps because of this practice that the ribald saying, There are three sexes men, women and the clergy, originated.
Mythology is rich in legends. These legends are interesting. Men and women of today who are in high positions label the ancient mythologies as what they are mythologies. These same men and women label their own mythologies of today as realities. Mythologies of the present day are so labeled by a precious few. A few centuries hence these mythologies will be correctly labeled. The Babylonian legend of the Descent of Ishtar sheds interesting light upon ancient eunuchism.
Indeed, the Descent of Ishtar is regarded by many as one of mankinds oldest stories. Ishtar was the goddess of love. This is tantamount to: The goddess of sexual activity. Ishtar descended below that is to say into the hollowness of the earth. In her descent she passed through numerous doors, giving up a garment at each door. She was originally depicted as wearing and dancing with seven veils. After passing through the last door we can well imagine her nudeness. She was thus lost from sight and there followed a period on earth when there was neither love nor loving. There were no sexual relations between men and women. It is even written in the legend that: The bull did not approach the cow. Even man of antiquity howled when his sources of supply were taken from him.
The gods held a council. There were many gods in those ancient days. The number seems to have been greatly reduced and seems rather aptly expressed in that saying to Thomas Jefferson: The incomprehensible jargon of trinitarian arithmetic that three is one and one are three. The council admitted that life was fast disappearing from the face of the earth and that something must be done. Ishtar must be brought back to the face of the earth. But who could bring her back? Could a female of the species be trusted to do this? Would a female be powerful enough to withstand the hardships of the journey? Could one or more females even succeed? And after all, should a female be sent on such a mission? Would this not be an affront to the goddess herself, quite naturally a female?
Would it be proper conduct to send a virile male? What of the demeanor of these two the beautiful goddess, and a virile male, especially with the goddess in the nude, on the return journey? No. This would never do. And so, the castrated a male created the eunuch. The eunuch, as a messenger and guide, descended into the hollow of the earth, and, unperturbed by the charms of the beautiful goddess in the nude the great mother of sexual passion led her back to the light of the earths surface, to restore eroticism and reproduction to humanity.
Quite naturally we regard the legend with amusement and we are perfectly assured within ourselves that no goddess ever descended into the hollow of the earth. At some time in history it was inevitable that some reason must be given for this particular kind of mans inhumanity to man.
As we move along the historical scale into biblical history we find that the making of eunuchs was quite popular even with the holy men of the Bible.
During the days of unbridled savagery when biblical history was in the making it was the practice or custom of victors in war to bring home, as trophies, the sexual organs of the defeated enemy. History presupposes some sort of civilization back in those days when God condescended to appear in person on earth and to talk with the creature called mere man. But the savage custom of cutting away the sexual organs of the defeated enemy and displaying these severed organs as trophies of victory was less humane than the practice among the aboriginal Americans of using the scalps of the vanquished in the same manner and history does not credit the average American Indian with having been civilized when discovered by Columbus. Even today the American Indian is regarded as having been without civilization in the 15th century regardless of the actual historical knowledge of the high state of civilization attained by the Incas, Aztecs, and others, ages before the time of Columbus.
Old King David, called a holy man of God, broke into biblical lore as a great victor when he carried home, to one of his brides, and at her request, the severed sexual organs of an enemy. David, Solomon, et al., the et al. including the leading men of Bible times, had created for themselves many eunuchs so that these eunuchs might be trusted to attend the harems of the mighty men of holy days. It was supposed that the eunuchs were sexless creatures and incapable of treading with heavy foot upon the virgin soils and spoils of their masters. But eunuchs were, and often are, capable of having sexual intercourse.
Some of the Chinese and other Oriental men of wealth, owners of eunuchs and harems, did discover, in time, that their wives and eunuchs were not to be trusted too far. They discovered that the eunuchs were having intercourse with the many wives of their masters entrusted to their supposed sexless care. They promptly invented a remedy. The caused the penises of the eunuchs to be amputated. The operation of choice (not the choice of the eunuchs, you may rest assured) was the cautery. A red hot or white hot iron or knife was used for severing the male organ against the belly.
One passage in the Bible is spoken of by G. Mason Williams, writing in the magazine Sexology (New York), as being avowedly difficult to understand. Doubtless Williams (who does some good writing) failed to remember that the passage could be regarded as just another of the common biblical incongruities. The passage referred to by Author Williams reads: There are those who are eunuchs from their mothers womb, and there are those who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Williams explained that many religious thinkers, brooding on this, mutilated themselves as did the famous scholar Origen.
It seems strange that the mind of a scientific writer should almost completely miss the significant point. The eunuch being a man whose testicles have been removed, could not be a eunuch from his mothers womb. The biblical writers were ignorant of the condition known as cryptorchidism the condition in which the testicles fail to descend but are retained either in the inguinal canal or in the abdomen. [I have yet to read any theologian who interpretes eunuchs from their mothers wombs as refering to cryptorchidism, but it makes far more sense than most theological interpretations. It would strongly reinforce the minority view that Jesus really did mean literal castration for true Christians. Maybe the Skoptzy were right! Try this on your Fundamentalist friends. JA]
When it is considered that eunuchs (castrated men) have been the husbands of healthy and passionate women, it is not surprising that the wife of Potiphar, chief of the eunuchs of Pharaoh, sought to seduce Joseph. If pictures are to be given even fanciful credence, both Potiphars wife and Joseph were healthy, well-sexed persons. Joseph (not a eunuch), so the story goes, landed in prison because he refused to be seduced by the sexually competent wife of the chief of eunuchs. Is it to be marvelled at that someone originated the saying: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?
The spread of eunuchism was from Babylon and Egypt to the Roman Empire and all of the great kingdoms of the East. The Emperor Domitian is credited with having issued an imperial edict prohibiting the practice of castration. History records that the favorite youth of Domitian was Earinus a eunuch.
(continued as Chapt. 2, pt. 1)
