Skoptsy
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The Skoptsy were a Spiritual Christian sect of Eastern Orthodoxy. They were best known for practising the emasculation of men, the mastectomy and the female genital mutilation of women in accordance w
Skoptsy woman having undergone a mastectomy
Tools commonly used for castration
Photos of Skoptsy taken by ethnographer Nikolai Volkov to be used against them in the 1929 trials.
Gerichtlich medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland figure 3
Emasculation
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Emasculation is the removal of the external male sex organs, which includes both the penis and the scrotum, the latter of which contains the testicles. It is distinct from castration, where only the t
Skoptsy
…Russian: скопцы, lit. 'eunuchs', Russian pronunciation: ) were a Spiritual Christian sect of Eastern Orthodoxy. They were best known for practising the emasculation of men, the mastectomy and the female genital mutilation of women in accordance with their teachings against sexual lust. The descriptive term "Skoptsy…
A painting of Cronus emasculating Uranus, c. 1501
An emasculated Chinese eunuch from the Qing dynasty