Episode 72: Morning of the Mutants: On the Castrati
Weird Studies
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Castration and Its Effects
The physiological effects of castration, which martha felmin gets into in the first chapter of her book. The standard practice was to lie the boy down and put in these incisions in the testicles and remove em that way. And what would that do? Well, it was more than just like, your voice didn't drop. It completely altered the morphology of your body, the way your body developed over time. A lot of these changes actually contributed to the voice in different ways. So the voice remained high, that's the first thing. But also it tended change the way your bones developed, so that your chest cavity would expand and become huge,. Which made you into this huge
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