Psychology 3226A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Castration, Ontogeny
15 Apr 2015
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Multiple behavioral effects: aggression, sexual behavior effects in humans are age dependent, prepubertal: reduced facial/body hair, altered growth (long arms, short stature), extended lifespan, postpubertal: modest effects once relatively common in eunuchs (once used to guard harems, other domestic/court services, multiple societies bull = male cow, fully grown, has testicles; steer = male, castrated early in life, bull is much larger, farmers have known that if you remove testicles early in life you can alter the phenotype of a male cow capons rooster without testes castrati young boys you had nice singing voices, they would castrate them before puberty to preserve the nice voice (back in 17th and 18th century, individuals known as castrati. Hijra social caste in india: mixed background, demasculinizing surgery for some individuals, about a million in india that fit into this social group, males trying to take on feminine appearance, they identify as transgendered, might have had ambiguous genitalia when born.
