You Will Not, In Fact, Put Anyone's Eye Out
Tracie Egan has assembled the mindboggling: "10 CASTRATION SCENES FROM HORROR MOVIES." Probably, you don't want to click on that NSFW link if you have a penis, but since I don't, I found the whole, incredibly graphic lineup to be pretty fascinating, especially the one with the dog. I guess this is the part where I should say something more, but what do you say after that thing with the Rottweiler? Not much, really.
(Image from "Ilsa, She Woolf of the SS.")
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I don't know, she left out the whole zombie penis scene from "Beyond Re-Animator". How authoritative can this list be?
http://io9.com/370464/zombie-rat-vs-zombie-penis-++-who-wins-%5Bnsfw%5D
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(That's my tell for "stunned silence".)
How complete can this be if it doesn't include a whole film devoted to penile amputation and vagina dentata horor? Leaving out Killer Condom seems like a rather large omission. Even I've heard of it and I'm not into horror of any type.
beats me why you primates find this so distasteful. Any time male monkeys fight they invariably go for the eyes and crotch. Face it, it's in your nature.
Ilsa isn't really a horror movie. If we're veering off-genre, I'd vote for Pink Flamingos.
Why did I watch the video? Why?
http://www.rapestop.net/
i remember seeing the butthole surfers in '85-86, and they played a few 16mm films on a screen behind the band. one of the films was a medical how-to film of a penisectomy. since they had shown it to the audience forward the night before, either to save time or just plain laziness (stoner/slacker band from austin, go figger) this night it was played backward and upside down. it began with an upside down, bandaged up tallywhacker. the bandages were removed, then the destitching began. about midway through, i sorta got the feeling of vertigo. about 3/4 of the way through, i had to go sit down. and i'm not a squeemish person. fortunately, the other films were of old "charlie's angels" episodes. sans dialog. whew.
foxy brown. (or was that coffy?)
Most of the scenes involve complete emasculation, or just the removal of the penis, without that of the testes. Castration involves the removal of the testes, usually without that of the penis.
I admit I have deep-seated issues with maleness and masculinity, but I enjoyed watching these scenes. It might be different in real life.
P.S. I've had some trouble with the captchas.
I think I'm going to like this guestblogger.
Too bad Egan only included horror movies in her post. Otherwise, we'd be treated to the castration sequence from the best sci-fi movie ever filmed, THE ICE PIRATES.
I think I'm going to like this guestblogger.
Second that.
what - the - hell
#10: Lol, Tak, the number of times that's been posted on BB (shudder). Plenty to recommend against it, though. An angry rapist in pain is a far more dangerous proposition than the rapist to begin with. OTOH, Neal Stephenson's idea (from Snowcrash) of a tranquilizer needle, has some merit. (Sadly, I suspect that would be somewhat illegal.)
Susannah, I can see the next two weeks are gonna be a wild ride with you!
curare
I once (at about age 13 or so) got up blinky eyed on a Saturday morning, to find my day ( a veterinarian) attempting to castrate the cat on the kitchen table. I ate my toast in my room.
Oh the humanity!! . . . . errrr. . . "penility"?
So I venture to BoingBoing because I'm so depressed that CA prop 8 is winning. This post didn't make me feel any better, at all. Wish you'd saved it for another day.
Try to imagine that they were castrated for voting in favor of Prop 8. That'll cheer you up. Every bloody dismemberment has a silver lining.
I think I'm in desperate need for a unicorn chaser...
#16: Good proposition. I would guess if you could get the dosage right so it would just paralyse/disable the average male, while not actually putting him unconscious, it would be (relatively) safe.
There was a pitbull with lipstick joke in there somewhere.
#12: Exactly my thought! That was the first image that popped into my head. (And, fortunately, the only one. I avoid "torture porn" for pretty much that reason.
Deary me, when are people who advocate for castration (or penile amputation or both) for rapists going to realize there is no sense in it? And genitals are not the defective organ in such situations, brains are.
"peen pruning". Heh.
Not going to risk clicking on that link while at work, so I'm wondering if somebody might post the list of movies? I'm curious to know if Hard Candy is on the list. (BTW - anybody who hasn't seen that movie yet, absolutely should. I don't want to put any spoilers here, I'm just saying to watch it.)
the forth man - by Paul Verhoeven is my favorite
hum, you miss "pain olympic"
Hello. Unicorn Chaser, please. Seems like that courtesy has been forgotten on the double-Boing...
and I haven't even followed the link yet!
Hello. Unicorn Chaser, please. Seems like that courtesy has been forgotten on the double-Boing...
Yeah. And no funny tricks like unicorns getting de-horned either.
Cripes. Sorry, I don't have the nads to watch those, even fictional, scenes.
"Ilsa, She Woolf of the SS" ... by day, a sadistic nazi torturer; by night, a modernist novelist. Her stream-of-consciousness interior monologues struck terror into all who were forced to endure them ...
#22, Kieran O'Neill
Considering curare would paralyze the diaphragm, thus suffocating the offender, this is certainly a lethal option.
Don't worry, emasculation is alive and well in most modern societies. No need to physically remove the penis, just use the very common emotional emasculation.
the headline should read
" No skin off my nose "
Where's a good c_ck block when you need one?
want a chaser? scour the web and post then! We believe in community chasers as well as community moderation you know.
Just for the record, the idea behind the device Takuan linked is to lodge itself onto the penis via small hooked barbs. At this point, it's supposed to be difficult to impossible to remove without surgery, forcing the rapist to seek medical attention and thereby turn himself in.
In practice, it would probably just drive him into a murderous rage, hence my bringing up Stephenson's dentata, which was simply a tranq needle, to disable the rapist, rather than just making him mad. Of course, if it's a rape gang, you're screwed, in more than one way.
Anyway, at no point were either of us suggesting penisectomy of rapists, just a little CBT.
In what sense do you mean chaser?
monocerous
misandry and the "all men are rapists" justification.
Yawn.
My first experience with penile violence was when I was probably 6 or 7. In a film where Nazi's put a glass rod in a jewish prisoner's penis and broke it. I think it was Soldier of Orange but I'm not sure.
My understanding is that penile violence is primarily a genocidal act, much like the raping and vaginally injuring women from another tribe or group, like what has been happening in the Congo or Sudan. It is an attack on the ability of a group to reproduce.
I haven't watched it because I am at work and I am already exasperated by that margin of sexual politics. Interestingly, later when I was a teenager, after a male prostitute I had befriended, drugged and raped me, I pierced my own penis to punish it for becoming aroused during the violation. That was more than enough penis hate for me.
strange how the`seal of the`confessional holds here better than any church. Then again; not strange at all.
http://www.popbuzzuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/seal-hunting.jpg
Actually I don't care who knows in this instance. If I let people non-anonymously know about the experiences that have shaped me then I will know who is my friend or who is my foe. I already have many friends.
However I don't have an incentive to post my name and address in a public forum that owes me nothing personally and from whom I expect nothing personally. The social internet has flattened out to that in some cases. In other cases I am glad for my anonymity as I may wish to decry against people who commit actual violence like gang-bangers.
Instead I commented because I was interested in gauging the fascination of others in pop castrations but in the context of someone's (namely my own) personal account.
If that comment was for me, you clubbed that "seal" in vain.
no more for you than me, an observation at most.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned chemical castration and Depo-Provera yet. (I remember reading about them in my first year university psych textbook, which was a long time ago.)