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1 " I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scissors and some onomatopoeia. "
― Mark Mills , Waiting for Doggo
2 " But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. "
― Anna Quindlen
3 " Female castration results in concentration of her feelings upon her male companion, and her impotence in confrontations with her own kind. Because all her love is guided by the search for security, if not for her offspring then for her crippled and fearful self, she cannot expect to find it in her own kind, whom she knows to be weak and unsuitable. "
― Germaine Greer , The Female Eunuch
4 " While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified institution of matrimony, the penis is not by nature a monogamous organ. It knows no moral code. It was designed by nature for waste, it craves variety, and nothing less than castration will eliminate the allure of prostitution, fornication adultery, or pornography. "
― Gay Talese , Thy Neighbor's Wife
5 " In the nineteenth century, girls who learned to develop orgasmic capacity by masturbation were regarded as medical problems. Often they were 'treated' or 'corrected' by amputation or cautery of the clitoris or 'miniature chastity belts,' sewing the vaginal lips together to put the clitoris out of reach, and even castration by surgical removal of the ovaries. But there are no references in the medical literature to the surgical removal of testicles or amputation of the penis to stop masturbation in boys.In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948-- on a five-year-old girl. "
― Eve Ensler , The Vagina Monologues
