re: #217 Decatur Deb

I don’t doubt one, or even 10 boys might have been castrated (though the quoted testimony on how it was done is very weird). Note that the story would require that a former prime minister of the country is implicated. Extraordinary claims/extraordinary proofs.

I just don’t find the idea that a homosexual was castrated in the 1950s to be that extraordinary, though. As was pointed out by Gus, this— and other terrible ‘treatments’— have often been the fate of homosexuals or those suspected of homosexuality.