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March 08, 2005
Human Mutants on Discovery Channel
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Last night I watched the 1st episode on the subject about human mutants, as in those with genetics problems. It was very scary. I have read and seen gigantism, dwarves, missing collar bones and all but I have never seen nor ever heard of a condition where instead of having muscles under that layer of skin, you have bones. Like the body doesn't know when to stop producing bones, so once you broken a bone, the body will grow a new bone and never stops doing so. They showed a young courageous woman who practically became so still like a marble, except for her mouth where she can still speak but she had to be careful because the growing of bones might fuse her mouth together. They showed a skeleton of someone with such a frightening genetics problem and it was very very very scary. They said it is a very rare condition, only 500 in the world has it but to me that is still 500 and how many more carry that type of malfunctioned genes? It spooked me.
Then the one that really spooked me was the one they showed about the castrated artistes in I think Italy. I do not know how to spell what they were called. When they were little, these boys' testicles were snipped off. And I didn't know it was the testicles that tells the body when to stop growing because it was resported that these boys who would grow up to be opera singers or those men with those little boys' voices would never stop growing even until they were into their late 20s. They were especially tall and big and even at 90 they had the bones of a young adolescent. The last of such kind was the director of the I think Vienna musical choir or something who died in the 1920s. They didn't show his picture, so I do not know how tall he was but they broadcast his last recording, his singing. These people they said were like the J.Lo of their days and their voices were kinda like women's voices, except we didn't have to castrate ourselves in any way. Anyway for the whole night I could not sleep remembering his shrilly high pitched voice and even now that voice is still in my head. It was very spooky, very unnatural and even the host said perhaps he wasn't a very good singer because his singing was horrible. Maybe tastes changed the host said but to me, that was the most mutant of all.
I am haunted by this voice even as I type now. I don't know why but it just scares me even now. Luckily nowadays people do not go chopping off their testicles for the sake of so called art.
Now this begs a curious question, an answer that maybe you would know.
You see the show said cutting off testicles and you won't stop growing, you're abnormally tall. Remember the Chinese eunuchs? How come they were not abnormally tall? Was it because they only chopped off their penis and not their testicles? The show never answered this and I wonder ... They can't have chopped off everything and became effectively a woman because like the show said, you would be very tall. I don't see that in Chinese eunuchs. Do you know?
Anyway if you have ASTRO, do have a look at these series (it's a 3 part documentary) at 10.00pm tonight and tomorrow night at Channel 50. The host is not very good, the documentary has such deep medical terms but it is a relevalation. I think being fat is not all that bad after I have seen that woman with that bone problems. Even being too thin or skinny is not that bad either.
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Anyway, if u want to know more about those castrated Italian singers, try look for the word 'castrati' or 'castrato' in google. U will find a lot of info of these singers.
I got to know about this type of singer from the novel 'Cry To Heaven' by Anne Rice. That novel basically talk about the life of these singers.
There was also a film made about the most famous castrato of all time, FARINELLI. That guy was said to have a very wide range (more than three and a half octaves) and an angelic voice. But some people comment that the film did not depict the real Farinelli accurately. The real farinelli was suppose to be a very chaste guy and also a very nice fella. No primadonna attitude eventhough he was the most popular castrati singer of his time.
Too bad Farinelli live at a time where audio recording still has not been invented yet. I really want to hear the voice of this legend.
Here is a short article about castrati: http://www.radix.net/~dalila/singers/castrato-cut.html
I do not know whether the Astro show talk about this part of freak history or not. I was never scared when I read about these mutants in books and looking at the pictures, but I read 1 book about these 'mutant' that give me sleepless nights. At one time, freak shows are a very common part of the circus. People pay to see deform people. It's ok if they r naturally deformed. At least they get a job and can make a living. But some unscrupulous people actually manufactured freaks. They stuff young kids in a barrel and keep them there for years so that they can't grow up to create midget. They broke a kid legs so that he can't walk, to create a wild child (a child rise by animals). There are many more horrible things like this. It really creeps me out reading about such cruel deeds.
Kidd, thanks for the info on castrati... Very interesting yet hair-raising at the same time. Humans can get really sick sometimes. Just look at the 3-foot lotus in olden-day China!
Btw, to answer the question of Chinese eunuchs, I think it's because they were castrated only after puberty, which by then the 'stop' hormones would have been released. I may be wrong, of course, but I dun think I've heard anything about the abnormal height of eunuchs. Btw, I do believe that when these men were castrated, both their penises and testicles were cut off. Read that somewhere, I think...
Singapore is showing too? I am having sleepless nights and I kinda forgot the show is about extreme deformities. I mean calling them mutants seem fanciful, like X-Men but after watching 2 episodes I realise it's not all supermodel you know. Very disturbing documentary.
As for the castrati, they don't cut off the penis. I think they just remove the testicles or cut off some tube inside. I don't remember very well. But, I am sure the penis was not cut off. The method used by those italian guys were the least brutal compared to other countries. They went for minimum damage and pain.
Funn, about the stuffing children in barrels, that is what the book said. The book is about weird stuff that happen in the world. One section is about the mutants. It's a non-fiction, so I guess what is said in the book must be true. The other things in the book have been repeated many times in other books about paranormal stuff. But I have only read about manufactured freaks in that book.