Choir boys in large church used to be castrated to help them hit the higher notes.What does this say to you?

Choir boys in large churches used to be castrated(forcefully) to help them hit the higher notes.What does this say to you?
Would you allow your child to be castrated just to make his voice prettier praising his god?

That is child abuse.
No, I will not let anybody harm my kids, let alone get castrated just to sing.

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9 Responses to Choir boys in large church used to be castrated to help them hit the higher notes.What does this say to you?

  1. ⌡Machine Head⌠ says:

    Those days are over.
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  2. Snowie says:

    It makes me glad I play rhythm guitar!
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  3. firefly says:

    that’s the catholics,
    nothing to with me(A CHRISTIAN)
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  4. lainiebsky says:

    It wasn’t just churches. Castrati were used in opera and other forms of musical entertainment. There were probably thousands of castrati in Europe at the height of the craze. They were highly trained singers and had often taken a major leap up the social hierarchy when they chose that profession.

    The church had very little to do with it.
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    Atheist music major

  5. Libretto de Chocha says:

    That is child abuse.
    No, I will not let anybody harm my kids, let alone get castrated just to sing.
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    look again, my avatar is an eye.

  6. MamaCat says:

    Hell no.
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  7. Midge says:

    firefly: do not kid yourself—that was the Anglicans too
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  8. ...virginiaO says:

    run away from home – very quickly.
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  9. Big Kahuna says:

    No one expects-THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!!!
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