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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!
and it's before 1903
Is that an eye, or his mouth?
It's rather disturbing.
it's a nose
The scissors got there first.
I hope they were trans girls who were recognized for it but I doubt they all were