The Skoptsy ― The White Doves of Castration
The Skoptsy (Russian: скопцы) were a Russian fundamentalist Christian sect with rather obscure and untraceable origins, which, at its peak in the early 1900’s, had up to 100,000 followers according to some sources.
Most observers would deem the Skoptsy highly extremist and fanatical. They were very ultra-moralistic and maniacally God-fearing in their religious culture. The foremost article of faith in their strain of ultra-orthodox Christianity was the notion that, at the time of the Fall of Man, as Adam & Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the fruits grafted themselves onto the human body in the form of breasts on the women and testicles on the men.
They believed that human sexuality (bodily beauty, sexual pleasure, the pursuit of attractivity, etc.) was the primal evil in the heart of both man the fornicator and woman the whore, and that it directly prevented and forbad the humans from establishing a direct link between man and God. Thus, the human sexual reproductive organs were seen as the source of human spiritual decay, depravation and fall from grace; this drove the Skoptsy to mutilate their sexual organs.
The men most often cut their testicles off and sometimes also the penis as a whole, and the women cut off their breasts, and sometimes even their labia or other parts of their genitalia.
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