Short Suck #27 - The History of Castration

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Happy Valentine's Day! Let's talk about love. Kind of. But not really. Not at all actually. Let's talk about how and why we humans have castrated each other and ourselves throughout human history. This one's not for the squeamish. But, I also can't remember laughing this often in any other recent episode!

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0:00.0	Welcome to this edition of Time Suck Short Sucks, the perfect topic for this Valentine's Day episode.
0:07.3	I'm Dan Cummins, and today I will be talking about snipping off your cock and balls.
0:11.8	Or at least the balls, but sometimes a cock.
0:14.1	Maybe not always having them snip, though.
0:16.4	Are we talking about castration?
0:18.1	Why? Because I'm curious.
0:23.7	And certainly also demented. and possibly also insane. Castration is defined by the Journal of Urology as any action, surgical or chemical,
0:31.1	by which an individual loses the use of the gonads, particularly testicles. Today we're diving
0:37.0	into the history of castration.
0:39.6	We'll be exploring the many unique and horrifying ways it has been performed in the past
0:43.6	versus how it has achieved now, figuring out who historically gets castrated and for what
0:48.2	reasons. And we'll look at some of the current arguments for and against the procedure.
0:52.9	And then, if you're the owner of a set of nuts,
0:55.7	I'm going to find you and I'm going to snip them off or maybe I'm going to hammer them flat.
1:00.7	And then we're going to talk about how you feel. Worse, much worse, or maybe a little lighter
1:05.6	and more carefree. Calm down. I'm not going to do that. Or maybe I'm standing right behind you with some ether
1:13.0	and a pair of pruning cheers, and I am going to do that. Get ready. This is going to be a weird one.
1:19.4	Words and ideas can change the world. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother. I have a dream.
1:25.3	I'll plead not guilty right now. Your only chance is to leave
1:28.8	with us. Though it seldom appears in today's world, unless you're talking about the spider from Game of
1:36.8	Thrones, castration has long been one of the most enduring practices in human history. Almost every
1:42.6	culture across every period has implemented some form of
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