• The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first recorded practice of castration to intentionally produce eunuchs dates as far back as 2,000BC - more than 4,000 years ago - in the ancient city of Lagash - located in what would now be modern day Iraq. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Gary Van Ryswyk has been charged with practicing medicine without a license resulting in bodily injury after deputies showed up to his home and allegedly found a man holding a bloody towel to his groin and a "pink container which held two body parts. (oxygen.com)
  • And now, according to the latest standards of the World Professional Association For Transgender Health (WPATH), children may identify as eunuchs ! (blueridgemountain.life)
  • Due to the lack of research into the treatment of children who may identify as eunuchs, we refrain from making specific suggestions. (blueridgemountain.life)
  • Among the many people who benefit from gender-affirming medical care, those who identify as eunuchs are among the least visible" reads the opening line of chapter 9. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • An internationally-respected and supposedly scientific body referring to "children who identify as eunuchs" is concerning in and of itself, but even more so when looked at in the context of what the guidelines refer to as "contemporary eunuch-identified people. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • The practice is linked to a subculture where men become 'nullos' - short for genital nullification - by having their penis and testicles removed. (com.ng)
  • However, in the months after the botched surgery, the man said he began to suffer from suicidal thoughts and 'regrets' ever having his testicles removed. (americanuckradio.com)
  • He allegedly told deputies that he had previously performed castrations on animals and had removed one of his own testicles in 2012. (oxygen.com)
  • Had he been merely a eunuch or neuter, the men of the palace could have examined him for testicles. (galva108.org)
  • Castration is the surgical treatment for cancer or tuberculosis of the testicles and for a syphilitic tumor involving them. (yodelout.com)
  • However, it has been noted that eunuchs (men who have had their testicles destroyed or removed) do not develop BPH. (healthcareformen.info)
  • Surgical castration is bilateral orchiectomy (excision of both testicles), while chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to deactivate the testes. (cloudfront.net)
  • The term castration may also be sometimes used to refer to emasculation where both the testicles and the penis are removed together. (cloudfront.net)
  • Either surgical removal of both testicles or chemical castration may be carried out in the case of prostate cancer . (cloudfront.net)
  • [3] Testosterone -depletion treatment (either surgical removal of both testicles or chemical castration ) is used to slow down the cancer, greatly reduce sex drive or interest in those with sexual drives, obsessions, or behaviors, or any combination of those that may be considered deviant. (cloudfront.net)
  • An individual assigned male at birth whose testicles have been surgically removed or rendered nonfunctional and who identifies as a eunuch. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Gustavson's alleged 'right-hand man', Peter Wates, 66, from Croydon in south London, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm between January 1 2016 and January 1 2022. (com.ng)
  • July 14, 2022 The loss of the male sex chromosome as many men age causes the heart muscle to scar and can lead to deadly heart failure, new research shows. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Mar. 17, 2022 Researchers have found that there are nearly twice as many men with cancer among men living with HIV (MLWH) compared to men who do not have the human immunodeficiency virus. (sciencedaily.com)
  • And it should be remembered that the term eunuch could be either literally a castrated man or, more generally, any person whose sexuality was not expressed heterosexually. (boxturtlebulletin.com)
  • However the term eunuch can encompass those who have been chemically or surgically castrated, including due to illness. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The myth that to this day she is most known for is that of her consort Attis' self-castration. (cvltnation.com)
  • Archaeological finds at Çatalhöyük, a large Neolithic town of southern Anatolia, suggest that such practices were common in the worship as far back as 7500 B.C.E. The Galli, Roman followers of Cybele, also practiced ritual self-castration, known as sanguinaria . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In cultures that had both harems and eunuchs, eunuchs were sometimes used as harem servants. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Book of Esther eunuchs ran the royal court of King Xerxes and a eunuch by the name of Hegai personally selected Esther to ascend to the throne from the royal harem. (boxturtlebulletin.com)
  • Castrated men- eunuchs - were often admitted to special social classes and were used particularly to staff bureaucracies and palace households: in particular, the harem . (cloudfront.net)
  • A Florida pensioner is expected to spend two years behind bars after he was charged for castrating a man he met on a eunuch fetish website. (americanuckradio.com)
  • A Florida man was arrested after allegedly performing a botched castration on a man he'd met on a dark web fetish website for eunuchs. (oxygen.com)
  • A 76-year-old man will spend three years in prison after pleading no contest to the unlicensed practice of a health care profession resulting in serious bodily injury after he performed a botched castration on a man he met on a eunuch website. (bolde.com)
  • The practice of castration has its roots before recorded human history. (wikipedia.org)
  • Those "who are made eunuchs by men" seems to refer to the pagan practice of literal castration as a religious practice, and this is rejected by Jesus. (blogspot.com)
  • Many young men read Möhler's article and began discerning the priesthood, leading to a drastic increase in vocations. (wordonfire.org)
  • In the recent Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, a number of Church leaders suggested that, given the shortage of priests in certain areas, a pastoral exception should be made to ordain married men and permanent deacons to the priesthood, so as to minister in remote territories where the indigenous people are in need of sacramental care. (wordonfire.org)
  • Includes chapters: The holy Fathers -The "masculinity" of God-The male Christ -The male priesthood. (xyonline.net)
  • The Leviticus Holiness code , for example, specifically excludes eunuchs or any males with defective genitals from the priesthood, just as castrated animals are excluded from sacrifice . (cloudfront.net)
  • Castrated men are deemed unfit for the priesthood . (wikipedia.org)
  • During a hearing at the Old Bailey, Gustavson, 45, from Haringey, north London , pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to three men on dates in 2018 and 2019. (com.ng)
  • The surgery performed on the 55-year-old man took place in August 2019. (bolde.com)
  • Gary Jon Vanryswyk, 76, performed the botched procedure on the 55-year-old male back in August 2019 after they connected on eunuch.com. (americanuckradio.com)
  • Feb. 11, 2019 Using HIV genetic data, researchers discovered that transgender women in Los Angeles are at higher risk of being in an HIV transmission network than men who have sex with men. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Eunuchs, or "Khawaja Sira" as they were known, were the most dependable royal aides during the Mughal Empire. (alturi.org)
  • It covers several biological variations, including intersex, transgender men, transgender women and Khawaja Sira , a local term commonly used for those who were born male but identify as female. (com.pk)
  • The charges relate to the alleged clamping and splitting of the genitals of the men, who cannot be identified for legal reasons. (com.ng)
  • There are extreme cases where people are castrated for cannibalistic or sexual desires - but the majority remove their genitals because they don't identify as male or female. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Eunuch individuals are those assigned male at birth (AMAB) and wish to eliminate masculine physical features, masculine genitals, or genital functioning" it explains. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • In one of the strangest cases of cannibalism to date, a Japanese man had his genitals removed and cooked for five paying dinner party guests. (dilijanapartment1.com)
  • He became a public figure when he went through a Castrated surgery on March 31, 2012, that is done to remove male genitals. (dilijanapartment1.com)
  • I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location. (dilijanapartment1.com)
  • An MPD spokeswoman told AFP that the four suspects conspired to "openly display the severed male genitals to the assembled 71 guests" at a music club on May 13. (dilijanapartment1.com)
  • WPATH recommends a website for more information, where a person can view a selection of "adult fiction", including stories about "the castration of males of various ages", in other words: child-castration pornography. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • Skip forward a few thousand years and castration fantasies are not just Freudian references and psychoanalytical complexes, but full aspects of some people's sexual desires. (cvltnation.com)
  • One of the listed contributors of SOC8 is Thomas Johnson PhD, who according to Reduxx "has for over two decades participated in [the] fetish forum (Eunuch Archives) that hosts and produces extreme sadomasochistic written pornography involving the castration and torture of children" and whose "academic interests advocate for expanding the concept of 'gender identity' to include men with sadomasochistic and even pedophilic castration fantasies. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • Eunuchs would usually be servants or slaves who had been castrated to make them less threatening servants of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Review of Inside the World of the Eunuch: A Social History of the Emperor's Servants in Qing China, by Melissa S. Dale. (towson.edu)
  • Historically eunuchs would be servants or slaves who had been castrated against their will. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Eunuchs would usually be servants or slaves who had been castrated to make them less threatening servants. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • In the Arab world, eunuchs served two chief functions: they were employed as guardians of harems and as civil servants. (rogershermansociety.org)
  • I suggest that we require civil servants to be eunuchs. (rogershermansociety.org)
  • Nobles, military and naval officers, civil servants, priests and merchants were to be found in its ranks, and its numbers were so great that 515 male and 240 female members were transported to Siberia between 1847 and 1866 without seriously threatening its existence. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Amongst the 81 eunuchs they studied, three lived to the ripe old age of 100 or more, a feat of longevity that remains relatively rare even in developed countries today. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Evidence that sex hormones play a role in this loss of resistance is shown by a study on the effects of male castration on longevity ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The Caliphate in Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7,000 black eunuchs and 4,000 white eunuchs in his palace. (cloudfront.net)
  • They wish for a body that is compatible with their eunuch identity-a body that does not have fully functional male genitalia. (blueridgemountain.life)
  • In ancient times, castration often involved emasculation or the total removal of all the male genitalia. (cloudfront.net)
  • A man has admitted freezing the leg of an alleged ringleader of an extreme body-modifications group, who is accused of filming castrations and posting videos of them online. (com.ng)
  • The term castration is sometimes also used to refer to the removal of the ovaries in the female, otherwise known as an oophorectomy , or the removal of internal testes, otherwise known as gonadectomy. (cloudfront.net)
  • Castration [1] is any action, surgical , chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testes or a female loses the functions of the ovaries . (wikipedia.org)
  • Castration and Connection: Kinship Organization among Ming Eunuchs. (towson.edu)
  • Like in the Byzantium empire, eunuchs, due to their closeness to those in power, occasionally gained great influence, including the eunuch Zheng He during the Ming dynasty - who was said to have than high ranking officials. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Eunuchs in China had been known to usurp power in many eras of Chinese history , most notably in the Later Han , late Tang and late Ming dynasties. (cloudfront.net)
  • Castration added up to 20 years to their lifespan. (scienceupdate.com)
  • The average lifespan of a eunuch from mid-sixteenth century to mid-nineteenth century was 70 years. (scienceupdate.com)
  • The average lifespan of a normal male who lived at the same time was 50 to 56 years. (scienceupdate.com)
  • Her priests called "Galli" castrated themselves becoming eunuchs to show their devotion and connection with the Magna Mater. (cvltnation.com)
  • The androgenic side effects include male pattern baldness, acne, etc. (brittnebabe.com)
  • DHT is also believed to cause a host of other health problems, including male pattern baldness. (healthcareformen.info)
  • It can be a gradual, gene-driven loss known as male- or female-pattern baldness. (biothik.com.au)
  • He personally grappled with male pattern baldness and created a topical concoction of opium, horseradish, pigeon droppings, beetroot and spices. (biothik.com.au)
  • 1998). Black Religion after the Million Man March . (xyonline.net)
  • While there is a 4000-year history of eunuchs in society," healthcare professionals are told "the greatest wealth of information about contemporary eunuch-identified people is found within the large online peer-support community that congregates on sites such as the Eunuch Archive (www.eunuch.org), which was established in 1998. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • Eunuchs supposedly did not generally have loyalties to the military, the aristocracy, or a family of their own (having neither offspring nor in-laws, at the very least). (wikipedia.org)
  • After addressing the Pharisees' question about Mosaic Law and divorce, Jesus closes his discourse with an enigmatic reference to "eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. (wordonfire.org)
  • Tertullian, a second-century Church Father , described Jesus himself and Paul of Tarsus as spadones, which is translated as "eunuchs" in some contexts. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Most English translations use the archaic and evasive word "eunuch" to describe Arjuna, but it should be noted that the castration of heterosexual men does not cause them to adopt the psychological nature of females and behave in such a womanly fashion. (galva108.org)
  • Prostate cancer kills 41,000 men in the US every year. (healthcareformen.info)
  • Prostate cancer is now the most frequently diagnosed cancer among American males. (healthcareformen.info)
  • It is estimated that over 9 million men currently have some form of prostate cancer in the United States. (healthcareformen.info)
  • This year, 317,000 cases will be diagnosed and 41,000 men will die from prostate cancer in the United States alone. (healthcareformen.info)
  • Unfortunately, the numbers are only expected to worsen: over the next 20 years, the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer will triple, and the number of men who will suffer and die from this terrible disease will double. (healthcareformen.info)
  • Castration is used as a treatment for prostate cancer . (wikipedia.org)
  • Prostate cancer is the most common noncutaneous cancer in men in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • An estimated one in six white men and one in five African-American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, with the likelihood increasing with age. (medscape.com)
  • Currently, most cases of prostate cancer are identified by screening in asymptomatic men. (medscape.com)
  • The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends that men decide whether to be screened for prostate cancer based on a discussion with their health care provider about the uncertainties, risks, and potential benefits of screening. (medscape.com)
  • Although prostate cancer can be a slow-growing cancer, thousands of men die of the disease each year. (medscape.com)
  • A team of Korean scientists may have identified a way to extend men's lifespans: castration. (scienceupdate.com)
  • The incidence of centenarians among Korean eunuchs is at least 130 times greater than it is in the developed countries, Lee notes, and that can't be explained simply by the benefits of life in the palace, either. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Slaves for service in harems in Oriental countries are often castrated, being called eunuchs. (yodelout.com)
  • This discovery adds an important clue for understanding why there is a difference in the expected life span between men and women," said Kyung-Jin Min of Inha University. (sciencedaily.com)
  • 1995). Men on Men: Eight Swedish Men's Personal Views on Equality, Masculinity and Parenthood , Sweden (trans. (xyonline.net)
  • Incidentally, the Ethiopian Eunuch was the very first recorded Gentile convert to Christianity. (boxturtlebulletin.com)
  • On Listening and Speaking: Men, Masculinity, and Christianity. (xyonline.net)
  • скопцы , also transliterated as Skoptzy , Skoptzi , Skoptsi , Scoptsy ) were a secret sect of Christianity in imperial Russia , best known for practicing ritual castration of their men, and the removal of their women's breasts, in accordance with their teachings against sexual lust. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • sex refers especially to the physical and biologic traits that are physically evident at birth and is often captured in the phrases "assigned male at birth" (AMAB) and "assigned female at birth" (AFAB). (msdmanuals.com)
  • People who were assigned male at birth (AMAB) and have adopted a gender identity as a woman, regardless of whether they have undergone any medical gender transition. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In China, castration was also considered one of the five great punishments, and a means of gaining employment in the Imperial service. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Castration has been considered one of the most severe punishments a man can receive throughout the history of human beings, but for some people that is not exactly the case. (cvltnation.com)
  • However, the first option was cited by the late 9th century Byzantine emperor Leo VI in his New Constitution 98 banning the marriage of eunuchs, in which he noted eunuchs' reputation as trustworthy guardians of the marriage bed (eunē) and claimed that the very word eunuch attested to this kind of employment. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Roman times, emperors were surrounded by eunuchs for such functions as bathing, haircutting, dressing and in the Byzantium empire there were groups of eunuchs who held official functions in the city of Constantinople - now Istanbul. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Trajan enlarged the Roman army to thirty legions and fought two big wars in Dacia from 101 to 106, commanding twelve legions with 120,000 men. (beck.org)
  • Dacia lost most of its men, and as a Roman province it was settled by people from the Roman empire. (beck.org)
  • Edward Gibbon 's famous work Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire reports castration of defeated foes at the hands of the Normans . (wikipedia.org)
  • Historic data on age-specific deaths caused by TB from Massachusetts, 1880-1930 ( 6 ), show that deaths among women tended to peak at lower ages than deaths among men, which is similar to patterns of STI prevalence. (cdc.gov)
  • 1995). XODUS: An African-American Male Journey . (xyonline.net)
  • 1995). The Men We Long To Be: Beyond Domination to a New Christian Understanding of Manhood . (xyonline.net)
  • Though it is unlikely that men began opting for castration over a bald spot, in 1995 researchers at Duke University confirmed that the procedure could indeed prevent hair loss. (biothik.com.au)
  • As with other gender diverse individuals, eunuchs may also seek castration to better align their bodies with their gender identity. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • Speaking specifically of castration, the Apostolic Canons, a fourth century Syrian document, states, "If a layman mutilate himself, let him be excommunicated for three years, as practising against his own life. (boxturtlebulletin.com)
  • By poring over those records, Min and colleague Cheol-Koo Lee of Korea University found that eunuchs lived 14 to 19 years longer than other men did. (sciencedaily.com)
  • That's why the age limit of male prostitution has perilously dropped to as low as 12 years. (equitabletourism.org)
  • Aside from adding eunuch as a gender identity option for children, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health has also removed the minimum age for puberty blockers and hormones, as long as the child has reached 'Tanner Stage 2', which can be as young as 9 years old. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • This "young women, older men" pattern is found in most populations in which TB is endemic and appears to be caused by age- and sex-specific differences in risk of disease progression, because these differences are not found in TB infection prevalence ( 7 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Eunuchs were allowed to marry and had families by adopting castrated boys or normal girls. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Eunuch Archives hosts over 3,000 pieces of fictional child pornography that detail the rape, torture, and killing of children. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • which I wrote about the other day, reminds me that until the nineteenth century African slaves were highly prized in the Arab world as eunuchs. (rogershermansociety.org)
  • [7] The Arab slave trade typically dealt in the sale of castrated male slaves. (cloudfront.net)
  • In translations of the Bible into modern European languages, such as the Luther Bible or the King James Bible, the word eunuchs as found in the Latin Vulgate is usually rendered as an officer, official or chamberlain, consistent with the idea that the original meaning of eunuch was bed-keeper (Orion's first option). (wikipedia.org)
  • Cops found the man with a blood-soaked towel pressed up against his groin and quickly called for medical help. (americanuckradio.com)
  • Gary Van Ryswyck was arrested after messing up during a castration he was performing on a man he found through the dark web. (oxygen.com)
  • Police found the injured man on a bed, holding a towel to his bloody groin, according to WFTS of Tampa Bay, Florida. (oxygen.com)
  • It is the same behavior found in the Kama Shastra describing male-to-female transgenders who dressed up and lived as women. (galva108.org)
  • When Arjuna went to approach the king for shelter, he had assumed the form and nature of a male-to-female transgender, a member of the third sex. (galva108.org)
  • 50] These last three planets, labeled napumsaka , are considered to be sexually neutral and "hermaphroditic" (possessing both male and female properties) by their influence. (galva108.org)
  • This neutrality refers to the fact that their natures are aloof from the business of procreating life as compared to the male and female planets. (galva108.org)
  • Female followers of Artemis were known to imitate and reenact the Amazon women who were man-slayers.There was an annual dance performed by the women of Ephesus 7 where they dressed as Amazons holding swords and shields. (theunapologeticgeneration.com)
  • It means that your gender may not have anything to do with being male or female or on any kind of masculine/feminine spectrum. (blueridgemountain.life)
  • Under the CTC, wearing female clothing was a punishable act for men. (alturi.org)
  • Male to female ratio was 1.8:1. (bvsalud.org)
  • An internal sense of being male, female, or something else, which may or may not correspond to an individual's sex assigned at birth or sex characteristics. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The classification of gender into 2 discrete categories of male and female (a paradigm of the past that did not allow for those who do not identify as male or female). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Modern religious scholars have been disinclined to assume that the courts of Israel and Judah included castrated men, even though the original translation of the Bible into Greek used the word eunoukhos. (wikipedia.org)
  • Eunuchs, in a modern sense, can include those who have been castrasted for health reasons, such as to treat cancer. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • Is there a place for the eunuch in the modern world? (rogershermansociety.org)
  • Castration has also been used in modern conflicts, as the Janjaweed militiamen currently (as of 2005) attacking citizens of the Darfur region in Sudan , often castrating villagers and leaving them to bleed to death . (wikipedia.org)
  • Two more men previously admitted removing other body parts belonging to Gustavson, who filmed the procedures and uploaded them to his 'eunuch-maker' site, which subscribers would pay to watch. (com.ng)
  • NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China 18:1 (2016): 84-114. (towson.edu)
  • About half of all men (and a fair number of women) will develop "male pattern balding. (a1supplements.com)
  • It does work in providing hair regrowth to lesser or greater effect in about two out of three men who are in the early stages of hair loss, women suffering from androgenetic alopecia experience better and more consistent results. (a1supplements.com)
  • Now I like a good soprano as much as the next man, but not if it means taking jobs from women. (rogershermansociety.org)
  • Adopting David's male subject position means that women viewers-and readers-are asked to identify against our own interests, and to accept a view of woman as an enticement that can bring about a man's downfall. (sots.ac.uk)
  • The Women Have Had Charge of the Church Work Long Enough": The Men and Religion Forward Movement of 1911-1912 and the Masculinization of Middle-Class Protestantism. (xyonline.net)
  • Men sell sexuality as well as women today, if not better. (equitabletourism.org)
  • Homosexual relationships are discussed in several of Li's works, such as "Women in Love," "House of Gathered Refinements," and "A Male Mencius Mother. (qualiafolk.com)
  • For those wanting a drug free and natural option we recommend our stem cell activators, Biothik Folliplus for Men and Women. (biothik.com.au)
  • [6] It was practiced to extinguish opposing male lineages and thus allow the victor to sexually possess the defeated group's women. (cloudfront.net)
  • For example, it will allow a transgender woman - a person who is biologically male - to access social and religious gatherings of females or women-only public places, and vice versa, it said. (com.pk)
  • Castration is commonly performed on domestic animals not intended for breeding . (wikipedia.org)
  • Further that unlawful carnal knowledge is meant is also made clear in that Lot (horrifyingly) proposes that they have sex instead with his daughters "who have never slept with a man" (i.e. his virgin daughters). (adw.org)
  • some people do not believe it causes AIDS at all, and others believe that HIV is a man-made virus. (facmedicine.com)
  • Like other gender diverse individuals, eunuch individuals may be aware of their identity in childhood or adolescence," the experts in transgender healthcare continue. (thepostmillennial.com)
  • An NHS Scotland website published documents saying that eunuchs should be recognised as a formal gender identity, prompting an apology from officials. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • The Gender Identity Of … Eunuchs. (blueridgemountain.life)
  • However, the court said Islamic law recognises the existence of intersex people and eunuchs and said they should be entitled to all the fundamental rights provided to people in the constitution. (com.pk)