Castration as a means of subjugation, enslavement or other punishment has a very long pedigree, dating back to ancient Sumer ( see also Eunuch ).

There is an urban legend that a CBC announcer once referred to the network on the air as the " Canadian Broadcorping Castration ", which also sometimes remains in use as a satirical nickname.

Castration ( also referred to as gelding, spaying, neutering, fixing, orchiectomy, oophorectomy ) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testicles or a female loses the functions of the ovaries.

Castration ( as a metaphor ) also plays an important role in psychoanalytically-influenced literary theory, for example Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence.

Castration anxiety can also refer to being castrated symbolically.

Castration as part of religious practice, and eunuchs occupying religious roles have been established prior to classical antiquity.

Castration was frequently used for religious or social reasons in certain cultures in Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and East Asia.

* Adult male after late castration ; see Castration # In veterinary practice

This particularly in view that castration has a history, up to the modern age, of therapeutic use ; according to Victor T. Cheney, in his Castration: Advantages and Disadvantages ( Authorhouse, Dec. 2003 ),

* The grindcore band Discordance Axis references Absalom at the end of the track entitled Castration Rite.

Castration before puberty ( or in its early stages ) prevents a boy's larynx from being transformed by the normal physiological events of puberty.

Castration of males usually has a pacifying effect on aggressive behavior in males.

Castration of various species in the non-breeding season has no effect on territorial aggression.

Castration was typically carried out on the soon-to-be eunuch without his consent in order that he might perform a specific social function ; this was common in many societies.

* Long-Term Consequences of Castration in Men: Lessons from the Skoptzy and the Eunuchs of the Chinese and Ottoman Courts, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism December 1, 1999 vol.

The Castration of Uranus ( mythology ) | Uranus: fresco by Vasari & Cristofano Gherardi ( c. 1560, Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ).

Castration in humans has been proposed, and sometimes used, as a method of birth control in certain poorer regions.

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.

Castration prevents male pattern baldness if it is done before hair is lost.

Castration is commonly performed on domestic animals not intended for breeding.

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* Theresa McCuaig, " Understanding Castration.

* Castration in males.

The Castration of Uranus: fresco by Vasari & Cristofano Gherardi ( c. 1560, Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ).

Castration, and the elimination of hormonally driven behavior associated with a stallion, allows a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved, making the animal quieter, gentler and potentially more suitable as an everyday working animal.

Castration ensured that all sins caused by lepost could not be committed.

Castration of the undescended teste ( s ) should be considered for cryptorchid dogs due to the high rate of testicular cancer, especially sertoli cell tumors.

Castration anxiety is the fear of emasculation in both the literal and metaphorical sense.

The concept of reversed chirality also figured prominently in the plot of James Blish's Star Trek novel Spock Must Die !, where a transporter experiment gone awry ends up creating a duplicate Spock who turns out to be a perfect mirror-image of the original all the way down to the atomic level.

The Apsu was figured as the abyss of water beneath the earth, and since the gathering place of the dead, known as Aralu, was situated near the confines of the Apsu, he was also designated as En-Ki ; i. e. " lord of that which is below ", in contrast to Anu, who was the lord of the " above " or the heavens.

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The Pythagorean tradition spoke also of so-called polygonal or figured numbers.

The unicorn also figured in courtly terms: for some 13th century French authors such as Thibaut of Champagne and Richard de Fournival, the lover is attracted to his lady as the unicorn is to the virgin.

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Look-alikes have also figured prominently at least since the 19th century in literature, and in the 20th and 21st centuries in film.

It also figured largely in a 2004 episode of the ITV detective series Foyle's War, entitled " They Fought in the Fields ".

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