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Skoptsy is a plural of skopets, at the time the Russian term for "castrate" (in contemporary Russian, the term has become restricted to referring to the sect, in its generic meaning replaced by the loanwords yévnukh е́внух, i.e. eunuch, and kastrat кастрат).
Emasculated Skoptsy male (left) and Skoptsy female with breasts cut off (right) Emasculation was one form of genital mutilation practiced by the Skoptsy, a Russian Christian sect. For males, the other form of mutilation available was castration. Females could remove their nipples, breasts, labia majora, labia minora or clitoris. [36]
In Russia, men of a devout group of Spiritual Christians known as the Skoptsy were castrated, either undergoing "greater castration", which entailed removal of the penis, or "lesser castration", in which the penis remained in place, while Skoptsy women underwent mastectomy.
Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, ... Skoptsy, a branch of the Russian Spiritual Christianity movement founded in the 1760s. Judaism
The Valesians were a Christian sect that advocated self-castration.The sect was founded by Valens (of Bacetha Metrocomia; [1] not to be confused with the Roman Emperor of the same name), an Arabian philosopher who established the sect sometime in the second century AD. [2]
Mastermind Marius Gustavson and his acolytes carried out male castration, penis removal and other “grisly and gruesome” procedures on an unprecedented scale on people as young as 16, the Old ...
Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov ...
Surgical castration is bilateral orchiectomy (excision of both testicles), while chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to deactivate the testes. Castration causes sterilization (preventing the castrated person or animal from reproducing); it also greatly reduces the production of hormones, such as testosterone and estrogen.