castration
noun/kæˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From castrate + -ion.
- Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:
- The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages Probed and beaten A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness2019, “A Rape of Sirens”, performed by Infant Annihilator, Alex Terrible:
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Figuratively Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
- Synonyms
- orchiectomy
- Derived terms
- alimentary castration, anti-castration, autocastration, cashtration, castration anxiety, chemical castration, elastration, hemicastration, immunocastration, postcastration, semicastration
- Related terms
- castrate, castrati, emasculation, testiclectomy, desex, geld, neuter, spay