• VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world
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    There’s a hentai doujin based on this. A guy wants to be in the church choir but he needs to lose his balls to join so a nun cuts his whole dick off and then fucks him with it. I’ve no idea what it’s called as I read it years ago.

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      9 months ago

      Okay so obviously the practice is awful and I’m glad it doesn’t happen anymore, but holy shit, I’ve never heard a man hit those notes before. Almost see the appeal

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          I do hope it was clear my last sentence was facetious. Yes obviously just get a woman instead

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        9 months ago

        Honestly, it may just be my modern ear, but I prefer a female soprano voice. There is definitely something uncanny about the castrato sound—you can hear a puberty that has lingered to the point of antiquity.

        That said, the recording technology in the early 1900’s tended to make everyone sound a little off, especially with age, so it is sort of difficult to know what the impact of his voice may have been in person. I wish we had a time machine to hear these voices in a proper room so we could compare them to the talent we hear today.

        Also, as a random aside, this has definitely made me wonder about what James Euringer might or might not have going on down there to achieve his high falsetto. Jimmy, if you read this, we need to see your balls. One…last…time!

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    Think about what must’ve happened to create this existential niche. It must’ve been observed multiple times that boys who lost their package could hit higher notes later in life.

    This almost certainly rules out accidental discovery, as the loss of testes accidentally would not create a statistical correlation.

    There was a history of euneuchificaton in the middle east, where slaves where castrated to nullify their sex drive and ability to procreate. In that it must have been noted that if you do it to boys before a certain age it retained their youthful voices.

    Can people just not put a knife to others people genitals?

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    There are many misconceptions in this thread and comments.

    Falsetto is the technique that men use to sing high. Prepubescent boys can sing soprano in their natural voice because children have very high voices.

    Cutting off a prepubescent boy’s balls doesn’t make his voice higher, it just prevents him from ever going through puberty, therefore his voice never drops. He will keep his childhood vocal range for life.

    Yes this was a real thing that was acutally done.