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eunuchizing in korea (this is just a film, please)

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Previous studies have shown female mammals generally live longer than males, and one explanation is that testosterone weakens the immune system and can increase the chances of heart disease.
 
Scientists have also found that castration typically prolongs lifespan in animals but studies on people have been inconclusive.
 
While data on mentally ill, institutionalized men showed them living longer, the lifespan of castrato singers was not significantly different from their non-castrated counterparts.
 
The study was published in the journal Current Biology. — Reuters

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Scantily dressed eunuch carrying a weapon keeps an eye on a harem in Tunis, Tunisia, 1931

Eunuchs would probably be servants or slaves who, because of their function, had been castrated, usually in order to make them reliable servants of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence. 

Seemingly lowly domestic functions—such as making the ruler's bed, bathing him, cutting his hair, carrying him in his litter, or even relaying messages—could in theory give a eunuch "the ruler's ear" and impart de facto power on the formally humble but trusted servant.  Similar instances are reflected in the humble origins and etymology of many high offices (e.g., chancellor originally denoted a servant guarding the entrance to an official's study). 

Eunuchs supposedly did not generally have loyalties to the military, the aristocracy, nor to a family of their own (having neither offspring nor in-laws, at the very least), and were thus seen as more trustworthy and less interested in establishing a private 'dynasty'.  Because their condition usually lowered their social status, they could also be easily replaced or killed without repercussion. 

In cultures that had both harems and eunuchs, eunuchs were sometimes used as harem servants (compare the female odalisque) or seraglio guards. (wikipedia)

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Castrated men here i guess no more, maybe uncastrated yamis only he can live longer..wahahah.

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yes sir fdaray as long as i am happy why not, but i want to have 10 children first before doing that..

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yes ms isle becoz they are totally hot hot hot.. & w/out balls refer that song sundalong y 8log..punay nalag katulog y buhat nga mahimo mau wa syay kuntra..

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mahal na karon ang bayad sa veterinarian kun akong ipa-eunuch among mga iro ug iring.

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ahh, mao diay nay estorya sa kanta... morag ikaw may composer ani.

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d ms isle oi c yayoy..

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6 Famous Eunuchs

by Martha Brozyna
July 29, 2009
http://www.mentalfloss.com/

1. Sporus (First century CE)

Castration was a big no-no under Roman law; even slaves were protected against the act.  However, eunuchs could still be purchased from outside the Roman Empire.  Not surprisingly, the notoriously bizarre emperor Nero saw himself above the law and castrated Sporus before he married him.  Little is known about Sporus’ background except that he was a young man to whom Nero took a liking.  Nero considered Sporus to be his wife, and their marriage ceremony included Sporus wearing a bridal veil, Nero providing Sporus with a dowry, and afterwards, a wonderful honeymoon in Greece.  (Nero also married two other men, although they were not castrated because in those marriages, Nero was the wife).

It’s possible that Nero used his marriage to Sporus to assuage the feelings of guilt he felt for kicking his pregnant wife, Sabina, to death in 65 AD.  Sporus bore an uncanny resemblance to Sabina, and Nero even called him by his dead wife’s name.  The affair was short-lived, however, because Nero killed himself in 68 AD.



Sporus was not widowed for long.  He soon married Nymphidius Sabinus, who made an unsuccessful bid for emperor that ended with his death at the hands of his opponent’s followers.  Sporus again became involved with another powerful man, Emperor Otho, who was also killed by his enemies.  Sporus then became linked to greedy, gluttonous, and debauched Emperor Vitellius, who later had a villainous idea for a halftime show during one of the gladiatorial combats: he planned for Sporus to dress as a young woman and be raped for the viewing enjoyment of the crowds.  Sporus committed suicide to avoid the humiliation.

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3. Peter Abelard (1079-1142)

In medieval intellectual circles, Peter Abelard was known as one of the most brilliant theologians and philosophers, and students flocked to study under him at Notre Dame in Paris.  As devoted a scholar that he may have been, the beautiful and intelligent live-in niece of a churchman named Heloise caught his eye.  Abelard asked the churchman if he could move in with him and Heloise, explaining that the commute to Paris from where he was staying was too onerous.  In exchange he offered to tutor the seventeen-year old Heloise. (Abelard himself was more than twenty years older).



The two became intimate, and Heloise was soon pregnant.  They married secretly, as scholars in the Middle Ages like Abelard were supposed to behave like clerics.  In a series of misunderstandings, the churchman thought that Abelard had abandoned Heloise and he became so furious that he hired some men to castrate him, ending the love affair.  Abelard joined a monastery, wrote about his ordeals in a work called History of My Misfortunes, and later resumed teaching and engaging in intellectual debate.  Heloise joined a convent but continued to pine for Abelard in her letters to him.  Their child was raised by family.  Despite their separation, the two lovers are now buried together in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

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5. Thomas “Boston” Corbett (1832-1894)

Thomas Corbett is known as one of the men responsible for killing John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln.  He was born in England and immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was seven years old.  While in his 20s, he became a born again Christian and took the name “Boston” in honor of the city where his metamorphosis took place.  But Corbett had a weakness for prostitutes, and he castrated himself with a pair of scissors to avoid sexual temptation.  Interestingly, the Massachusetts General Hospital records noted that he did not bleed particularly badly externally, but what caused worry was that his scrotum swelled and turned black.  He turned out OK, though.  Later that day he went to a prayer meeting, took a walk, and then enjoyed dinner.



It is perhaps not surprising that Corbett was later locked up at a Topeka mental institution.  He had threatened members of the Kansas House of Representatives with a gun claiming that some of them had been disrespectful during opening prayers.

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The last Sistine castrato to survive was Alessandro Moreschi, the only castrato to have made solo recordings.  While an interesting historical record, these discs of his give us only a glimpse of the castrato voice – although he had been renowned as "The Angel of Rome" at the beginning of his career, some would say he was past his prime when the recordings were made in 1902 and 1904 and he never attempted to sing opera.  He retired officially in March 1913, and died in 1922. (wikipedia)

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lupig ang macho voices ni hubag, bugsay ug pikoy, hehe.

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As the castrato's body grew, his lack of testosterone meant that his epiphyses (bone-joints) did not harden in the normal manner.  Thus the limbs of the castrati often grew unusually long, as did the bones of their ribs.  This, combined with intensive training, gave them unrivalled lung-power and breath capacity.  Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice.  Their vocal range was higher than that of the uncastrated adult male (see soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, sopranist, countertenor and contralto).  Listening to the only surviving recordings of a castrato, one can hear that the lower part of the voice sounds like a "super-high" tenor, with a more falsetto-like upper register above that. (wikipedia)

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The Catholic Church's involvement in the castrato phenomenon has long been controversial, and there have recently been calls for it to issue an official apology for its role.  As early as 1748, Pope Benedict XIV tried to ban castrati from churches, but such was their popularity at the time that he realised that doing so might result in a drastic decline in church attendance. (wikipedia)

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Modern castrati and similar voices

So-called "natural" or "endocrinological castrati" are born with hormonal anomalies such as Kallmann's syndrome, or have undergone unusual physical or medical events during their early lives that reproduce the vocal effects of castration without being castrated.

Jimmy Scott and Radu Marian are examples of this type of high male voice. 

Michael Maniaci is somewhat different, in that he has no hormonal or other anomalies, but for some unknown reason, his voice did not "break" in the usual manner, leaving him still able to sing in the soprano register. (wikipedia)

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wa maapil sa lista si barry gibb of the bee gees.  hinoon, obviously he's just a skilled R&B falsettist who made falsetto singing the bee gee's signature in the 1970s.

karon, pangutana.  aron mamatud-an nga di siya soprano, maayo tingalig mag-post ug youtube sa iyang singing si pikoy dinhi.    

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