WHEN I WAS SIXTEEN, a hundred years ago

CUM SEDECIM ANNOS ERIM, ante centum annos

I wondered about men having tits

De viris uberibus cogitabam

To feed the kids when women were hunting

Ad liberos pascendos cum feminae venantur

And women speaking in a manly voice

Et mulieribus voce virili loquentibus

Rather than this grinding pitchy

Potius quam hac stridula 

Which turns songs into screams

Quae carmina in clamores mutat

But god had seen that only a few men

Sed deus viderat paucos tantum viros

Would develop the effimination of their feelings

Effeminationem affectuum suorum evolvere

Wearing the femme attire 

Vestimenta feminina gerentes

Until the pharmas invented blockers

Donec pharmaceutica medicamenta invenerunt

And the diversification came in

Et diversificatio venit

Faster than a Freudian session

Celerius quam sessio Freudianensis

With hormone injection to maintain the change

Cum injectione hormonis ad mutationem conservandam

Daily

And I did not mention the surgery

Which had been common in China’s ancient times

And in the church choirs of popes with castrati

                ROBERT URBANOSKI — 29 OCTOBER 2025

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

MR LEONISKY ISN'T SURE IF THIS POEM IS POLITICALLY CORRECTUM, BUT ROBERT INSISTED IT WAS.... SO WE POSTED A RUSSIAN CARTOON AT TOP.

In China, male castration of a person who entered the caste of eunuchs during imperial times involved the removal of the whole genitalia, that is, the removal of the testes, penis, and scrotum. The removed organs were returned to the eunuch to be interred with him when he died so that, upon rebirth, he could become a whole man again. 

The penis, testicles and scrotum were euphemistically termed bǎo (寶) in Mandarin Chinese, which literally means ‘precious treasure’. These were preserved in alcohol and kept in a pottery jar by the eunuch. 

In China the practice of using castrated men as guardians of the emperor’s Inner court began over 2,000 years ago. Aside from the emperor, eunuchs were generally the only men allowed in the inner courtyards of the palace, where the women and harem lived.

https://closetprofessor.com/2010/07/20/chinese-eunuchs/

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Castrati were used in church choirs from the late 16th century, when Pope Sixtus V issued a decree recognizing their roles in the choir of St. Peter's Basilica. The practice continued until 1878, when Pope Leo XIII banned the hiring of castrato singers.