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The Cardinal's nephew, Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, was another early enthusiast, inquiring about castrati in 1556. There were certainly castrati in the Sistine Chapel choir in 1558, although not described as such: on 27 April of that year, Hernando Bustamante, a Spaniard from Palencia, was admitted (the first castrati so termed who ...
Eunuchs castrated before puberty were also valued and trained in several cultures for their exceptional voices, which retained a childlike and other-worldly flexibility and treble pitch (a high-pitched voice). Such eunuchs were known as castrati. As women were sometimes forbidden to sing in Church, their place was taken by castrati.
Commoners were banned from undergoing castration in Vietnam; only adult men of high social rank could be castrated. Most eunuchs were born as such with a congenital abnormality. The Vietnamese government mandated that boys born with defective genitalia were to be reported to officials, in exchange for the town being freed from mandatory labor ...
These procedures were performed in an effort to eliminate lust and to restore the Christian to a pristine state that existed prior to original sin. In the modern era, removing the human penis for any such activity is very rare (with some exceptions listed below), and references to removal of the penis are almost always symbolic.
Eighty computers were taken by the police as evidence, and three Internet café owners were arrested. [3] The European Commission in February 2005 referred Greece to the European Court of Justice over its ban on electronic games. [4] The law 3037/2002 was repealed in 2011, by the article 54 of law 4002/2011 ΦΕΚ Α/180/22-8-2011. [5]
Turkey banned Roblox last month over child safety concerns. Bronstein notes that its audience is getting older: Today, 58% of Roblox users are older than 13 years old, compared to 48% in 2021.
LiveLeak was a British video sharing website headquartered in London.The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the Ogrish.com shock site which closed on the same day. [2]
A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors. While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the ...