castration

What it means

1. countableuncountablemedicineThe act of removing the testicles.

   Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125

   1 more example

   The harlots' harmony echos within our cave of castration Accenting the weeps from the men remade as women; stripped of their appendages Probed and beaten A cult of deviant savages seducing bastards in the darkness

   2019, “A Rape of Sirens”, performed by Infant Annihilator, Alex Terrible

2. countablefigurativelyuncountableAny act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.

In a sentence

Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125

Where it comes from

From castrate + -ion.