RE: Is castrating young boys ethical?
February 3, 2013 at 9:57 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2013 at 9:58 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(February 3, 2013 at 9:34 pm)paulpablo Wrote: Just get a girl to sing it, or a boy who hasnt reached puberty yet, no need to be chopping balls off or whatever they do
They can't really match the castrato sound. If they could, the practice wouldn't have been so popular. They have physiological differences that make their sound different than women's.
This is how popular it was:
Quote:In the 1720s and 1730s, at the height of the craze for these voices, it has been estimated that upwards of 4,000 boys were castrated annually in the service of art.[11] Many came from poor homes and were castrated by their parents in the hope that their child might be successful and lift them from poverty (this was the case with Senesino). There are, though, records of some young boys asking to be operated on to preserve their voices (e.g. Caffarelli, who was from a wealthy family: his grandmother gave him the income from two vineyards to pay for his studies[12]).http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato#section_1
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
