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The exposure resulted in slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, and, in extreme cases, hallucinations.
It’s pretty likely that Corbett was exposed to the same!
I’ve gotten to study a lot about hat making recently, and a little known fact about is that the use of mercuric nitrate in the felting process poisoned many workers in the hat factories, creating a condition called erethism, also called "mad hatter disease." The exposure resulted in slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, and, in extreme cases, hallucinations. It’s pretty likely that Corbett was exposed to the same!
> Having spent much of his life in the hat industry, Corbett could have been succumbing to mercury poisoning. The ill effects of the mercury vapors used in finishing, Corbett’s specialty, had become public by this time, even part of folklore after Lewis Carroll introduced the country to the Mad Hatter in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865.
> His rash tendencies exhibited themselves in strange ways. One day while he was ministering in the summer of 1858, Corbett was ogled by a pair of prostitutes, and the lower half of his body responded invitingly. He went home, took a pair of scissors, snipped an incision under his scrotum, and removed his testicles, then headed out to a prayer meeting. > In the Bible, Matthew 19:12 quotes Christ as saying “there are…
Choosing Castration: A Thematic Analysis of the Perceived Pros and Cons of Genital Injuries and Ablation by Men Who Voluntarily Sought Castration https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10102058/ This is kind of funny: “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 202…
I'm assuming Wong 2021 has nothing to say about this other than the assertion.
A basic prerequisite for this would be that ordinary people's genitals are visible through their pants.
I’ve gotten to study a lot about hat making recently, and a little known fact about is that the use of mercuric nitrate in the felting process poisoned many workers in the hat factories, creating a condition called erethism, also called "mad hatter disease." The exposure resulted in slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, and, in extreme cases, hallucinations. It’s pretty likely that Corbett was exposed to the same!
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Choosing Castration: A Thematic Analysis of the Perceived Pros and Cons of Genital Injuries and Ablation by Men Who Voluntarily Sought Castration https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10102058/ This is kind of funny: “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 202…
> “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 2021).” I'm assuming Wong 2021 has nothing to say about this other than the assertion. A basic prerequisite for this would be that ordinary people's genitals are visible through their pants.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01808-6
> We designed a survey to compare the psychological, sexual, and childhood experiences for subgroups of men with extreme interest in castration. The survey was posted on the Eunuch Archive, an online platform for individuals interested in the topic. Data from 822 individuals were included in the analyses.
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Choosing Castration: A Thematic Analysis of the Perceived Pros and Cons of Genital Injuries and Ablation by Men Who Voluntarily Sought Castration https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10102058/ This is kind of funny: “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 202…
> “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 2021).” I'm assuming Wong 2021 has nothing to say about this other than the assertion. A basic prerequisite for this would be that ordinary people's genitals are visible through their pants.
> His rash tendencies exhibited themselves in strange ways. One day while he was ministering in the summer of 1858, Corbett was ogled by a pair of prostitutes, and the lower half of his body responded invitingly. He went home, took a pair of scissors, snipped an incision under his scrotum, and removed his testicles, then headed out to a prayer meeting. > In the Bible, Matthew 19:12 quotes Christ as saying “there are…
The guy certainly had ba... uh, courage. Jesus is known for saying striking things, like "If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire." (Matthew 18:8) He was the master of attention-grabbing metaphor. Of course here he means "deal seriously with your sin", not "ge…
> He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
Deuteronomy 23 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%202...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Castration_Is_a_Good_Id...
Bonus Technical Fact: in 1986, audio Compact Discs (“Red Book”) were penetrating the consumer market, and Swans were releasing albums with TRT just over 74 minutes, in order to maximize the 650MB storage capacity. In fact some would squeeze in up to 80 minutes of audio and CD players needed really good triple-beam tracking, plus error correction, for those. https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/vU7spvGEpV5k8JUHMuFFD
For a really gritty depiction of at-home unlicensed castration surgery cum revenge fantasy, “Hard Candy” starring Elliot Page is out there.
In Robert J. Sawyer’s The Neanderthal Parallax sf novel series, there’s a male character [rapist] who describes firsthand how it felt to surgically lose just one testicle, and how he felt less aggressive, less angry all the time; his libido, formerly out of control, seemed nearly normal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax
Sawyer thus promotes castration for White people as a forward-thinking eugenic punishment which can be visited on all genetic relatives of the offender! ... an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and 10 nuts for a single nut!
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Choosing Castration: A Thematic Analysis of the Perceived Pros and Cons of Genital Injuries and Ablation by Men Who Voluntarily Sought Castration https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10102058/ This is kind of funny: “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 202…
> “Furthermore, for some, the frequency of playing with male action figures that lack genitals (e.g., Ken doll, GI Joe) during childhood may have contributed to their castration desire (Wong et al., 2021).” I'm assuming Wong 2021 has nothing to say about this other than the assertion. A basic prerequisite for this would be that ordinary people's genitals are visible through their pants.
IIRC, Ken Dolls had tan lines or “permanent” briefs, but could remove pants from many action figures and dolls (and put on skirts and dresses on the males, interchangeably)