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Let's develop your singing talent. (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato

Edit: How they sound like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjvfqnD0ws

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I hope they were trans girls who were recognized for it but I doubt they all were

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reading Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven woke me as to exactly how horrifying castration is. Jesus. I'll never read that one again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was a big fan of the vampire chronicles and the Mayfair witches books. Got Cry to Heaven on disc for a long road trip and traumatized the whole family.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Laughing out loud for the first time today!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

and it's before 1903

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Is that an eye, or his mouth?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

it's a nose

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The scissors got there first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It's rather disturbing.