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Edward Gibbon's famous work Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire reports castration of defeated foes at the hands of the Normans during their invasions of Sicily and Italy.

Castration has been used in modern conflicts, such as the Janjaweed militiamen currently () attacking citizens of the Darfur region in Sudan, often castrating villagers and leaving them to bleed to death.