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The young man's thighs and abdomen would be tied and others would pin him down on a table. The genitals would be washed with pepper water and then cut off. A tube would be then inserted into the urethra to allow urination during healing. [56] Many Vietnamese eunuchs were products of self castration to gain access to the palaces and power.
Twelve of them were enslaved to work as agricultural laborers, while the youngest, Wu Rui (吳瑞) was selected for castration since he was the only young man and he became a eunuch attendant at the Vietnamese imperial palace in Thang Long. After years of service, he was promoted at the death of the Vietnamese ruler in 1497 to a military ...
The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-38331-9. Mellon, Charles David; Barlow, Carrolee; Cook, Joshua; Clark, Lincoln (February 1989). "Autocastration and autopenectomy in a patient with transsexualism and schizophrenia". Journal of Sex Research. 26 (1): 125– 130. doi:10.1080 ...
A eunuch (/ ˈ juː n ə k / YOO-nək) [1] is a man who has been castrated. [2] Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. [3] In China, castration included removal of the penis as well as the testicles (see emasculation). Both organs were cut off with a knife at the same time. [4]
Lý Thường Kiệt was a prominent eunuch general during the Lý dynasty (1009–1225).. Self-castration was banned by Lý dynasty Vietnamese official Tô Hiến Thành [9] The left arm of a man who self-castrated was tattooed with 23 characters and he was beaten with a heavy stick 80 times under orders of emperor Lý Anh Tông in 1162.
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 ...
Louisiana's current chemical castration law has been in place since 2008, however very few offenders have had the punishment passed handed down to them — with officials saying from 2010 to 2019 ...
Castration", in China, meant the severing of the penis in addition to the testicles, after which male offenders were sentenced to work in the palace as eunuchs. The punishment was called gōngxíng (宫刑), which meant "palace punishment", since castrated men would be enslaved to work in the harem of the palace.