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

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

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.

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 ),

* Crow, C: Orchestration … Or Castration ( History Today, September 2006 ; vol 56, no 9, pp 4 – 5 )

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.

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

Alice Bag went on to join Castration Squad, which included Phranc and Dinah Cancer among its many members.

Total Castration, remastered by Null, followed on the Nux Organization label in 2012.

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

* 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 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.

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.

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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.

Lacking these membranes, amphibians require water bodies for reproduction, although some species have developed various strategies for protecting or bypassing the vulnerable aquatic larval stage.

In the Gulf Region of the state grow various species of palmetto and palm.

The wood of certain alder species is often used to smoke various food items, especially salmon and other seafood.

Amaranths are recorded as food plants for some Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species including the nutmeg moth and various case-bearer moths of the genus Coleophora: C. amaranthella, C. enchorda ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. immortalis ( feeds exclusively on Amaranthus ), C. lineapulvella and C. versurella ( recorded on A. spinosus ).

A population or species of organisms typically includes multiple alleles at each locus among various individuals.

Other species which display this trait include parasitoid wasps, certain flatworms and various aquatic invertebrates.

Australia has several indigenous plants which are popular among modern ayahuasqueros there, such as various DMT-rich species of Acacia.

On bare ground or roads during the winter, various species of snakes and lizards bask in the sun, but they are rarely seen during the summer months.

They are relentlessly aggressive to various other animals during the nesting season, attacking non-predatory species such as cattle, tortoises, plovers and even sparrows.

Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.

In English the term " calf " is used by extension for the young of various other large species of mammal.

Vermicompost is the product of composting utilizing various species of worms, usually red wigglers, white worms, and earthworms to create a heterogeneous mixture of decomposing vegetable or food waste ( excluding meat, dairy, fats, or oils ), bedding materials, and vermicast.

Notable reservations include those by Iceland, Japan and Norway on various baleen whale species and those on Falconiformes by Saudi Arabia.

Many species prey on the cane toad in its native habitat, including the broad-snouted caiman ( Caiman latirostris ), the banded cat-eyed snake ( Leptodeira annulata ), the eel ( family: Anguillidae ), various species of killifish, the rock flagtail ( Kuhlia rupestris ), some species of catfish ( order: Siluriformes ).

Males may fight for females in various ways, and in such species there tends to be marked sexual dimorphism.

Contributing to the confusion are the facts that various species such as D. wrightii and D. inoxia are very similar in appearance, and that the variation within a species can be extreme.

This argument rests on the assumption that one can have a " moral " discussion on various scales ; that is, what is " good " for: a certain part of your being ( leaving open the possibility of conflicting motives ), you as a single individual, your family, your society, your species, your type of species.

The entire order contains over 8000 species, of which the Ericaceae account for 2000-4000 species ( by various estimates ).

Spiny forest at Ifaty, Madagascar, featuring various Adansonia ( baobab ) species, Alluaudia procera ( Madagascar ocotillo ) and other vegetation.

Based on archaeological and paleontological evidence, it has been possible to infer, to some extent, the ancient dietary practices of various Homo species and to study the role of diet in physical and behavioral evolution within Homo.