In Greek mythology, Melia was a nymph, one of the Meliae, who were daughters of Oceanus. By her brother Inachus, she became the mother of Io, Phoroneus and Aegialeus or Phegeus. In other stories, she was the mother of Amycus by Poseidon. Hesiod's, Theogony (187), tells how the Meliae appeared from the drops of blood spilled when Cronus castrated Uranus. Melia is also the name of the village in the southeastern part of the Evros prefecture Melia is also the name of a genus of trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, notably the Chi ...

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Attis, a life-death-rebirth deity, was both the son and the lover of Cybele, her eunuch attendant and driver of her lion-driven chariot; he was driven mad by her and castrated himself. Attis was originally a local semi-deity of Phrygia, associated with the great Phrygian trading city of Pessinos, which lay under the lee of Mount Agdistis. The mountain was personified as a daemon, whom foreigners associated with the Great Mother Cybele. The story of his origins from Agdistis, as told to the traveller Pausanias, have som ...

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Located deep in the brain's medial temporal lobe, the almond-shaped amygdala (in Latin, corpus amygdaloideum) is believed to play a key role in the emotions. It forms part of the limbic system. In humans and other animals, this subcortical brain structure is linked to both fear responses and pleasure. Its size is positively correlated with aggressive behavior across species. In humans it is the most sexually dimorphic brain structure, and shrinks by more than 30% in males upon castration. Conditions such as anxiety, autism, dep ...

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• Amygdala - Anatomical subdivisions
• Amygdala - Connections
• Amygdala - Fear conditioning

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In Greek mythology the Erinyes or Eumenides (the Romans called them the Furies) were female personifications of vengeance. They were usually said to have been born from the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him. According to a variant account, they were born from Nyx. Their number is usually left indeterminate, though Virgil, probably working from an Alexandrian source, recognized three: Alecto ("unceasing"), Megaera ("grudging"), and Tisiphone ("avenging murder"). The heads of the Erinyes were wreathed with serpents ...

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• Erinyes - Erinyes in fiction

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Westley Allan Dodd was a serial killer and child molester from Seattle, Washington. His execution on January 5, 1993, was the first legal hanging in the United States since 1965. Dodd began sexually abusing children when he was 13 years old; his first victims were his own cousins. All his victims (over 50 in all) were children below the age of 12, some of them as young as 2 years old. Dodd became more deranged the older he became (he wrote about wanting to castrate his victims and eat their genitals). When he was arrested, the poli ...

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Uranus is the Latinized form of Ouranos, Greek name of the sky. In Greek mythology Uranus is personified as the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. Ouranos and Gaia were ancestors of most of the Greek gods. Other sources claim a different parentage of Ouranos. Cicero, in his work De Natura Deorum claims that he was the offspring of the ancient gods Aether and Hemera. According to the Orphic Hymns, Ouranos was the son of the personification of night, Nyx. His equivalent in Roman mythology wa ...

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• Uranus mythology - The Creation Myth
• Uranus mythology - Cultural Context of Flint
• Uranus mythology - Consorts/Children

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Castration is common in animal husbandry and animal fancy, where it is intended for favouring a given desired development of the animal or of its habits. Spaying and neutering of household pets is encouraged to prevent overpopulation of unwanted animals. Castration - In animal fancy. Usually domestic pets are subject to castration in order to avoid sexual frustration or sexual contacts and consequent reproduction. In the case of pets, this is usually called neutering. Breeding specimens are kept entire and fetch higher prices when sold ...

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Castration, Castration - Castration in humans, Castration - History, Castration - Reasons, Castration - Medical consequences, Castration - Castration In Veterinary Practice, Castration - In animal fancy, Castration - In animal husbandry, Castration - Miscellaneous

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Trematodes are commonly referred to as flukes. This term can be traced back to the Saxon name for Flounder, and refers to the flattened, rhomboidal shape of the worms. There are no known cases of human infection with Aspidogastreans, therefore the use of the term "fluke" in relation to human infection refers solely to digenean infections. The flukes can be classified into two groups, on the basis of the system which they infect. Tissue flukes, are species which infect the bile ducts, lungs, or other biological tis ...

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Trematoda, Trematoda - Taxonomy, Trematoda - Etymology, Trematoda - Life Cycles, Trematoda - Chemical castration of hosts, Trematoda - Literature

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The Galli, followers of the goddess Cybele practiced ritual self-castration, sanguinaria. Even in Christian times the practice continued; however, the Church did not follow the example of the early theologian Origen, who castrated himself based on his reading of the Gospel of Matthew 19:12. The 18th-century Russian Skoptzy (скопцы) sect was an example of a castration cult, where its members regarded castration as a way of renouncing the sins of the flesh. Several members of the 20th century Heaven's Gate cult were ...

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Eunuch, Eunuch - History, Eunuch - Religious castration, Eunuch - Castrato singers, Eunuch - Eunuchs in modern times, Eunuch - Figurative use, Eunuch - Involuntary disorder, Eunuch - Myths, Eunuch - Historically significant eunuchs, Eunuch - Some other famous eunuchs, Eunuch - Related articles

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According to Tom Burnham's Dictionary of Misinformation, a common misconception about eunuchs is that, since they were castrated, they were either unable or unwanting to defile or perform sexual intercourse with the women in the harem they were employed to watch over. This was not always true, however. If a eunuch was castrated after puberty, which was common, he would still be able to achieve an erection and engage in coitus, though no pregnancy could result. According to Burnham, some women preferred eunuchs as lovers since they never ejaculated and could, therefore, maintain ...

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Eunuch, Eunuch - History, Eunuch - Religious castration, Eunuch - Castrato singers, Eunuch - Eunuchs in modern times, Eunuch - Figurative use, Eunuch - Involuntary disorder, Eunuch - Myths, Eunuch - Historically significant eunuchs, Eunuch - Some other famous eunuchs, Eunuch - Related articles

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The body dysmorphic disorder or dysmorphophobia characterized by desire to be a eunuch is called skoptic syndrome, named after the Skoptzy sect. However, in the latest issue of DSM, there are no references to the term, and it is virtually unknown in psychological literature. It is also important to notice that the term, along with GID, can and is also used to imply "minority mainstream view/practices" without negatively implying dysfunction or 'wrongness', nor is it applicable to all people with a desire for castration, due to the highly div ...

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Eunuch, Eunuch - History, Eunuch - Religious castration, Eunuch - Castrato singers, Eunuch - Eunuchs in modern times, Eunuch - Figurative use, Eunuch - Involuntary disorder, Eunuch - Myths, Eunuch - Historically significant eunuchs, Eunuch - Some other famous eunuchs, Eunuch - Related articles

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Eunuchs castrated before puberty were also valued and trained in several cultures for their exceptional voices, which retained a childlike and other-worldly flexibility and treble pitch; unfortunately the choice had to be made at an age the boy would not yet be able to consciously choose whether to sacrifice in his sexual potency, and there was no guarantee that the voice would remain of musical excellence after the oper ...

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Eunuch, Eunuch - History, Eunuch - Religious castration, Eunuch - Castrato singers, Eunuch - Eunuchs in modern times, Eunuch - Figurative use, Eunuch - Involuntary disorder, Eunuch - Myths, Eunuch - Historically significant eunuchs, Eunuch - Some other famous eunuchs, Eunuch - Related articles

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The English word eunuch is from the Greek eune ("bed") and ekhein ("to keep"), effectively "bed keeper." Servants or slaves were usually castrated in order to make them a safer servant of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence – seemingly lowly domestic functions such as making the ruler's bed, bathing him, cutting his hair, carrying him in his litter or even relaying messages, literally giving him "the ruler's ear" could impart de facto power on the formally humble but trusted servant, a ...

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Eunuch, Eunuch - History, Eunuch - Religious castration, Eunuch - Castrato singers, Eunuch - Eunuchs in modern times, Eunuch - Figurative use, Eunuch - Involuntary disorder, Eunuch - Myths, Eunuch - Historically significant eunuchs, Eunuch - Some other famous eunuchs, Eunuch - Related articles

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A common problem of the scrotum is the development of masses. Common scrotal masses include sebaceous cyst, also called a epidermal cyst hydrocele hematocele spermatocele varicocele Other conditions include: contact dermatitis: may cause redness, swelling, and itching of the entire scrotum. Can result from soaps, solvents, detergents, and natural irritants such as poison ivy. inguinal hernia yeast infection swelling resulting from conditions external to the scrotum, including: heart failure k ...

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Scrotum, Scrotum - Health issues

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Eunuch

A castrated male. Voluntary castration is associated either with ascetic vows, resulting in permanent celibacy, or with some forms of priesthood.

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Feminists generally regard this theory as sexist. In turn, feminists themselves have been accused of suffering from penis envy, as traditionally masculine traits have been valued over feminine ones by many 20th Century and 21st Century feminists. Historically, feminists have explained that penis envy existed as the result of a male-dominated patriarchy, and "penis envy" was the understandable frustration and desire to participate in the power structure, which oppressed women. Women were denied entry into business and academia, and medicine a ...

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Penis envy, Penis envy - Feminist criticisms and disputation, Penis envy - Penis envy in males

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Some men have penile amputations, known as penectomies, for medical reasons. Cancer, for example, sometimes necessitates removal of all or part of the penis. In very rare instances, botched childhood circumcisions have also resulted in full or partial penectomies. Genital surgical procedures for transwomen (transgendered or transsexual women) undergoing sex reassignment surgery, do not usually involve the complete removal of the penis; part or all of the glans is usually kept and reshaped as a clitoris, and the skin of the penile shaf ...

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Penis removal, Penis removal - The missing penis in Egyptian myth, Penis removal - Human penis removal in medicine and psychology, Penis removal - Involuntary penis removal assault, Penis removal - Symbolism and ramifications of involuntary penis removal, Penis removal - Penis Removal in Urban Legend, Penis removal - Documented cases

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There have been incidents in which men have been assaulted, usually by their girlfriends or wives, by having their penises severed. Lorena Bobbitt, for example, is well-known for cutting off the penis of her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, for revenge when she discovered his infidelity. Bobbitt's penis was successfully reattached, and he went on to have a short career in pornographic movies. This was not the first modern case, however. On 18 May 1936, Sada Abe (also known as Abe Sada) strangled her lover (believed to by his request, he w ...

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Penis removal, Penis removal - The missing penis in Egyptian myth, Penis removal - Human penis removal in medicine and psychology, Penis removal - Involuntary penis removal assault, Penis removal - Symbolism and ramifications of involuntary penis removal, Penis removal - Penis Removal in Urban Legend, Penis removal - Documented cases

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A Capon is a castrated chicken cock. In this procedure the testes of the cock are completely removed; a surgical procedure is required for this as its sexual organs are not external. As a result of this procedure certain male physical characteristics will develop, but stunted: The comb and wattles cease growing after castration, so the head of a Capon looks small. The hackle, tail and sadd ...

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Cock chicken, Cock chicken - Capons, Cock chicken - Cocks as domestic pets, Cock chicken - External links

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In the Olympian creation myth, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him and imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus. The one-hundred-armed giants (Hecatonchires) and the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes, caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint sickle and asked her sons Cronus and his brothers to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus was willing: he ambushed his father and castrated him, casting that which was severed into the sea. From the blood which spilled from Uranus onto the ...

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Uranus mythology, Uranus mythology - The Creation Myth, Uranus mythology - Cultural Context of Flint, Uranus mythology - Consorts/Children

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As Tonio learns, Carlo is actually his father. However, although everyone in Venice is inclined to believe that Carlo was behind his castration, Tonio cannot accuse him of the crime because doing so would result in the "extinction" of the Treschi family. After some soul-searching, he decides to remain in Naples and study under Guido, holding off on revenge until after Carlo and his mother (also Carlo's lover and later wife ...

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Cry to Heaven, Cry to Heaven - Overview, Cry to Heaven - Plotline, Cry to Heaven - Motifs, Cry to Heaven - Significance

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