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Origen (c. 185–c. 253): early Christian theologian, allegedly castrated himself based on his reading of the Gospel of Matthew 19:12 ("For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mother's womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can ...
He was castrated by relatives of his lover, Héloïse. [13] Bishop Wimund, a 12th-century English adventurer and invader of the Scottish coast, was blinded and castrated after losing a power struggle. [14] In medieval England, men found guilty of high treason were hanged, drawn and quartered, which often included emasculation (removal of the ...
Although Skoptisism prescribed castration as a precondition for entering paradise, only a minority of members (703 men and 100 women) had undergone bodily mutilation. [15] Alexandre Dumas, père , writes about the sect, calling them scopsis , towards the end of his account of his journey through Caucasia, "Le Caucase, Memoires d'un Voyage ...
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 ...
Men were urged to protect: "the best of Your property" and guard their threatened foreskins(!). It was an extraordinary outpouring of popular beliefs about sex, fears about masculinity and misconceptions about Jews, but also a striking indication of how central to their sexual identity men considered their foreskins at that time. (R.Darby) [71]
Emasculation was performed in China on men to create palace eunuchs for the imperial court. [19] The practice dates back to the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) [20] and continued up until 1924, [21] when the eunuch system was abolished by the last emperor of China, Puyi. [22] The last living palace eunuch, Sun Yaoting, died in 1996. [23]
In many instances, ghettos were places of terrible poverty and during periods of population growth, ghettos had narrow streets and small, crowded houses. Residents had their own justice system. Around the ghetto stood walls that, during pogroms , were closed from inside to protect the community, but from the outside during Christmas , Pesach ...
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.