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The castrati were doing in the slim hopes to make a living in the opera or in a church choir. They couldn't marry or have kids, man, just to avoid having your fam stara. If you patrate boys before puberty, you prevent testasteron from masculinizing the vocal cords. And so you get the benefits of a high voice that has this power behind it. So they were very popular. But most people who were castrated in hopes of achieving something like that, just had to live without any testasteron, without their testacles,. and they had bodies that made them look very, very, you know, strange.