The weird things one learns while living abroad.

[KB3LAZ]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon

I didnt even know this was possible. However, why would I ever even think of it. Well, I hadnt. However, a dish I was looking at called for Capon..and I was like WTF is that? So..I learned that you can castrate a rooster. Sigh..wiki really does have everything, lol.

[NA4BH]

LOL......... City kids............. :lol:

[KB3LAZ]

LOL......... City kids............. :lol:

That is just the thing, I am not a city kid. In fact, I grew up surrounded by farms. My parents raised cows, pigs, rabbits, and chickens but never once did they have their chickens castrated. In fact, if I remember my biology correctly, a roosters gonads are located internally. Not just chickens, but birds in general. Much like reptiles.

[KB3LAZ]

Well, roosters rather. :P Then again, we did not have roosters only chickens. I guess you cant castrate something you dont have. Though, in middle eastern countries they do castrate female humans. I wonder if the same can be done for chickens. Im not sure what the point would be though.

[WA4TM]

Well, roosters rather. :P Then again, we did not have roosters only chickens. I guess you cant castrate something you dont have. Though, in middle eastern countries they do castrate female humans. I wonder if the same can be done for chickens. Im not sure what the point would be though.

Would that be called "clipping the clit"???:evil:

[N2CHX]

Would that be called "clipping the clit"???:evil:

Yeah, it's not even funny. How would you like to have your penis cut off against your will? Same thing. Think about that for a while and get back to me with how funny that actually is.

[kf0rt]

Yeah, it's not even funny. How would you like to have your penis cut off against your will? Same thing. Think about that for a while and get back to me with how funny that actually is.

Humanity. It's barbaric. (And unfunny.)

[WA4TM]

Yeah, it's not even funny. How would you like to have your penis cut off against your will? Same thing. Think about that for a while and get back to me with how funny that actually is.

Actually I never said it was funny... I was just trying to make a play on words... Notice the smiley is evil NOT lol.... Good night!!!!

[KG4CGC]

Well, roosters rather. :P Then again, we did not have roosters only chickens. I guess you cant castrate something you dont have. Though, in middle eastern countries they do castrate female humans. I wonder if the same can be done for chickens. Im not sure what the point would be though.

Is that how they get halal chickens?

[KB3LAZ]

Yeah, it's not even funny. How would you like to have your penis cut off against your will? Same thing. Think about that for a while and get back to me with how funny that actually is.

Well, in men, I once saw an article that said that castration led to a longer life. In fact, I think the link came from the island. That being said, Id like to keep my hevos.

[kb2vxa]

"How would you like to have your penis cut off against your will? Same thing."

Not the same thing at all, it's female circumcision which removes the hood of the clitoris and ruins their sex, the idea being it makes them faithful to their husbands. Funny how Muslim men are circumcised giving no thought to how it ruins their sex too. If Western religions weren't so hung up on sex maybe they'd enjoy it, maybe if they enjoyed it they wouldn't be so hung up???

Rant on.
Here in America routine infant circumcision is common and has no religious significance, so many men have their sex ruined before they know what to do with it and when they grow up wonder why they have dead wood. For the conspiracy theorists, if the doctors left our weenies alone we wouldn't need Viagra, think about it.
Rant off.

[N2NH]

Well, in men, I once saw an article that said that castration led to a longer life. In fact, I think the link came from the island. That being said, Id like to keep my hevos.

In that case Life is highly overrated.

[N2NH]

Yeah, it's not even funny. How would you like to have your penis cut off against your will? Same thing. Think about that for a while and get back to me with how funny that actually is.

Not a very good analogy. A woman can still have sex and even children despite that disgusting 'operation.' A castrated man cannot, even though castration seems to be a very common fantasy with some women.

Recently I was even told that women in some South American countries castrate their husbands after they have the children they want. Dunno if I believe that, but I don't find it that unbelievable either. Remember Lorena Bobbit?

[KG4CGC]

Not a very good analogy. A woman can still have sex and even children despite that disgusting 'operation.' A castrated man cannot, even though castration seems to be a very common fantasy with some women.

Recently I was even told that women in some South American countries castrate their husbands after they have the children they want. Dunno if I believe that, but I don't find it that unbelievable either. Remember Lorena Bobbit?

It is not uncommon in SA for women to castrate men ... for various reasons. The worst and commonly mentioned in these conversations is the removal of the penis.
Some SA women use their menstrual blood to blind the husband to their extra marital shenanigans.

[N2NH]

It is not uncommon in SA for women to castrate men ... for various reasons. The worst and commonly mentioned in these conversations is the removal of the penis.
Some SA women use their menstrual blood to blind the husband to their extra marital shenanigans.

I find it odd that this is rarely seen as outrageous by anyone, especially those who claim they want equality. I know that a NYC cop once said (on TV) that Lorena Bobbit wasn't a big deal. He said that there's at least 10 male castrations a year just in New York City. The way that they rushed to censor him, I have no doubt that is true.

I guess some animals are more equal than others?

[KG4CGC]

I find it odd that this is rarely seen as outrageous by anyone, especially those who claim they want equality.

It's been part of the culture since it developed as a merger with the Spanish hundreds of years ago.

[N2NH]

It's been part of the culture since it developed as a merger with the Spanish hundreds of years ago.

One could say the same for those who rip women's clitorises out, yet I somehow feel this too is reprehensible. Oddly enough, I don't convict all women for the few that practise castration. Nor do I feel the need to accuse all women as though they are all responsible for this. Yet I hear little about it. Either by itself or relative to this disgusting ripping out of clitorises.

[KG4CGC]

I'm not blaming anyone. No. Just stating a cultural point of interest.

[KB3LAZ]

Poor bastards.

[N2CHX]

Rant on.
Here in America routine infant circumcision is common and has no religious significance, so many men have their sex ruined before they know what to do with it and when they grow up wonder why they have dead wood. For the conspiracy theorists, if the doctors left our weenies alone we wouldn't need Viagra, think about it.
Rant off.

I will rant on and I have every right to, thank you. I have three boys and all three of them are uncircumcised. There's a very good reason for that. I feel and have always felt that the procedure is cruel and unnecessary, and if they wanted it done they could get it done when they were old enough to make that choice.

[N2CHX]

Not a very good analogy. A woman can still have sex and even children despite that disgusting 'operation.' A castrated man cannot, even though castration seems to be a very common fantasy with some women.

Recently I was even told that women in some South American countries castrate their husbands after they have the children they want. Dunno if I believe that, but I don't find it that unbelievable either. Remember Lorena Bobbit?

True, but in fairness I find any form of mutilation against one's will to be disgusting and reprehensible and that includes castration and penectomy. I don't think I'm being a hypocrite by what I said in the above post.

[N2NH]

True, but in fairness I find any form of mutilation against one's will to be disgusting and reprehensible and that includes castration and penectomy. I don't think I'm being a hypocrite by what I said in the above post.

With all due respect, I don't think you are either. I just find it interesting that rates of breast cancer are going up in men and not a word about it anywhere. That male castration is commonplace in some societies and not a word about it anywhere. That there are 7 women for 1 man* in many places and although that was reported on, it is being ignored as it would probably hurt some sensibilities. We certainly can't have that can we?

*By the time this is reported, the number is probably even higher. Then there's the fact that the count included married men and gay men, who are really not in the hunt. The disparity is likely much higher.

[N2CHX]

With all due respect, I don't think you are either. I just find it interesting that rates of breast cancer are going up in men and not a word about it anywhere. That male castration is commonplace in some societies and not a word about it anywhere. That there are 7 women for 1 man* in many places and although that was reported on, it is being ignored as it would probably hurt some sensibilities. We certainly can't have that can we?

*By the time this is reported, the number is probably even higher. Then there's the fact that the count included married men and gay men, who are really not in the hunt. The disparity is likely much higher.

I think you hear more about women's issues for a few different reasons. First, let's face it, women have been marginalized and treated like second-class citizens even here in the US, since forever. That's been changing but only because women decided to take the reigns and be vocal and proactive. It's happening all around the world, in various stages of progress.

Personally, I long for the day when people are just people and there are no more social stigmas or oppression-- based on gender or anything else you can think of. Live and let live. Do what you want but harm none. Simple philosophy and would that we could all just live by it.

[kb2vxa]

Re Kel on routine infant circumcision:
"I feel and have always felt that the procedure is cruel and unnecessary, and if they wanted it done they could get it done when they were old enough to make that choice."
I second that emotion. http://www.nocirc.org/

"Personally, I long for the day when people are just people and there are no more social stigmas or oppression-- based on gender or anything else you can think of."
Join the club, Jesus, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, myself, et al. Great minds think alike, I don't remember who said that but life tells us it is true.

[KG4CGC]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-Id_xi2z8&feature=relmfu