Castration anxiety is the conscious or unconscious fear of losing all or part of the sex organs, or the function of such.

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

Castration also figured in a number of religious castration cults.

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

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.

* 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.

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

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

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.

They become philosophic abstractions of a private and problematic relevance, or mere catchwords in religious customs which had in them a diminishing part of active belief.

Until that first dedication service, he and Lois felt their children were too young to take part in any religious life at home.

Pakistan was created in 1947 expressly as a Muslim state, but when the army took over eleven years later it did so on a wave of mass impatience which was directed in part against the inability of political and religious leaders to think their way through to the meaning of Islam for the modern political situation.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

He does not do it for any grand, religious purpose, like Paneloux ( Rieux does not believe in God ), or as part of a high-minded moral code, like Tarrou.

The abbey is a species of " exempt religious " in that it is, for the most part, answerable to the Pope, or to the abbot primate, rather than to the local bishop.

* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

* Hippo, an Amazon who took part in the introduction of religious rites in honor of the goddess Artemis.

The second part,, means " faith, word of honour ; religious faith, belief " ( archaic English troth " loyalty, honesty, good faith ").

Externally, political activity on the part of Ásatrú organizations has surrounded campaigns against alleged religious discrimination, such as the call for the introduction of an Ásatrú " emblem of belief " by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to parallel the Wiccan pentacle granted to the widow of Patrick Stewart in 2006.

These Sunday laws enacted at the state and local levels would sometimes carry penalties for doing non-religious activities on Sunday as part of an effort to enforce religious observance and church attendance.

Today Benedictine monasticism is fundamentally different from other Western religious orders insofar as its individual communities are not part of a religious order with " Generalates " and " Superiors General ".

The Rule of Saint Benedict is also used by a number of religious orders that began as reforms of the Benedictine tradition such as the Cistercians and Trappists although none of these groups are part of the Benedictine Confederation.

Each Easter season, the university and the Museum & Gallery present the Living Gallery, a series of tableaux vivants recreating noted works of religious art using live models disguised as part of two-dimensional paintings.

A creed is a statement of belief — usually a statement of faith that describes the beliefs shared by a religious community — and is often recited as part of a religious service.

Bishop John Shelby Spong, retired Episcopal Bishop of Newark, has written that dogmas and creeds were merely " a stage in our development " and " part of our religious childhood.

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

Vows of chastity can also be taken by laypersons, either as part of an organised religious life ( such as Roman Catholic Beguines and Beghards ) or on an individual basis: as a voluntary act of devotion, or as part of an ascetic lifestyle ( often devoted to contemplation ), or both.

This part of New York was in the so-called " Burnt Over District ," which earlier in the 19th century had generated much religious excitement, including the beginnings of Mormonism, and social causes, such as abolitionism and support for the Underground Railroad.

Construction projects such as these constituted only the most visible part of Domitian's religious policy, which also concerned itself with the fulfilment of religious law and public morals.