![]() ![]() … How much this small part of your body, which you have lost by the judgment and favor of omnipotent God, had injured you and did not cease injuring you as long as it remained, the diminution of your wealth teaches better than my words can show. With regard to what was, as they say, your downfall, namely the love of single women, and the traps of their lust, with which they capture their whore-hounds, it seems better for me to remain silent rather than to say something not in keeping with our order or the rule of our religious life. Fulk, a monk heading a monastic community at Deuil, near Paris, stated that Abelard allowed single women and whores to exploit him: In fact, Peter Abelard in twelfth-century France was disparaged and demeaned even as a castrated man.īefore he was castrated, Peter Abelard reportedly had strong, independent sexuality that challenged the historical repression of men’s sexuality. Castration culture was less finely honed and wielded in medieval Europe. What man wouldn’t sit with his legs tightly crossed and his testicles brutally squeezed to avoid the crime of manspreading? The testicular harm is better than a man adding himself to the massive number of men incarcerated. ![]() ![]() Even if those men don’t have all the legal privileges that women have, they don’t bear the stigma of acting masculine. Today, castration culture tends to treat men made into eunuchs as honorary women. ![]()
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