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Timeline from Castration:An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood by G. Taylor
20,000 BCE - Finger sacrifice 7,500 BCE - Domestic sheep, goats 6,200 BCE - Domestic cattle 4,500 BCE - Castrated cattle & sheep 4,000 BCE - First castrated human ? Tale of Uruk 1,848 BCE - Mesopotamian Diety Ishtar makes eunuchs 1,650 BCE - Mythical eunuch rescues Ishtar from the Underworld 1,200 BCE - Assyrian law punishes sodomy with castration 750 BCE - Cybele cult established in Phrygia 415 BCE - Self-castrated priests found in Cybele cult c. 28-33 - Ministry of Jesus Christ 85 - Gospel of Matthew ("...eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven") 209 - Origen of Alexandria castrates himself 240 - Valesius founds Christian sect of compulsory castration 313 - Emporer Constantine legalizes Christianity 325 - Council of Nicaea condemns self-castration 385 - Pope Siricius condemns sexual intercourse of priests with wives 399 - First eunuch Consul - Eutropius 403 - First known castrated Christian chorister - name not given in book 410 - Sack of Rome 413-427 - Augustine of Hippo composes "The City of God" 552 - Byzantine eunuch General Narses defeats Goths in Italy 1106-1108 - Theophylaktos composes his "Defence of Eunuchs" (published at EA of course) 1109 - Castration of Abelard in Paris (Abelard & Heloise - her uncle had it done) 1139 - Second Lateran Council abolishes clerical marriage 1148-1187 - Founding of society of eunuchs to guard tomb of Muhammad (Islam) 1453 - Byzantium falls to Ottomans 1492-96 - Europeans encounter Carib castration/cannibalism 1520 - Luther compares clerical celibacy to castration of Cybele priests 1599 - First 'official' castrati singers in Papal choir 1607 - Westerners first witness real eunuchs in Ottoman harems 1624 - Middleton's "A Game at Chess" is written & performed. (Taylor seems obsessed with this work and goes on and on about it.) 1721 - Farinelli debuts ! (Carlo Broschi) 1772 - First official notice of the Russian castration cult Skoptsy 1823 - First animal vasectomy 1894 - First human vasectomy 1908 - Freud formulates "Kastrationskomplex" - Castration complex 1933 - Nazi law for the prevention of genetically diseases offspring 1952 - First human sex change 1978 - Birth of first test tube baby 1998 - First cloned mammal - Dolly the sheep 2000 - First complete draft of human genome - let's hope it's right 20?? - First cloned human ...
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