Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.

Anatomia Mundini, ad vetustissimorum, erundemque [sic] aliquot manu scriptorum, codicum fidem collata, justoque suo ordini restituta / Per Joannem Dryandrum.

Life is movement : the physical reconstruction and regeneration of the people (a diseaseless world) / by Eugen Sandow.

Japanese Coll 99

Tom of Finland, a muscular life guard holding a smiling and dripping naked man in his arms by Tom, [19]77; with the message 'Even condoms can save lives' representing an advertisement for safe gay sex to prevent AIDS by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe de. Lithograph.

The castration effect

In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.

David Garrick in the rôle of Richard III, awakening from his nightmare in the tent with military activities in the background. Etching by W. Hogarth and C. Grignion after W. Hogarth.

Men and boys at a table drinking as a musician plays the lute. Engraving by A. Reindel, early 19th century, after A. Desenne after B. Manfredi, c. 1600.

A naked man walks through a rocky landscape with a scythe; representing summer. Etching by J. Coelemans, 1703, after L. Cardi da Cigoli.

The suicides of Pyramus and Thisbe: Thisbe and Pyramus lying dead in front of Ninus' tomb, having stabbed themselves with the sword next to them. Line engraving by V. Vangelisti after G. Reni.

The meanings of hurt

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The castration effect

The meanings of hurt