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Context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato
Edit: How they sound like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws
Reading Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven woke me as to exactly how horrifying castration is. Jesus. I'll never read that one again.
I was a big fan of the vampire chronicles and the Mayfair witches books. Got Cry to Heaven on disc for a long road trip and traumatized the whole family.
Laughing out loud for the first time today!
Is that an eye, or his mouth?
It's rather disturbing.
it's a nose
The scissors got there first.
and it's before 1903
I hope they were trans girls who were recognized for it but I doubt they all were