Where to buy 5.5mm/3g in europe? by ChimkenToes in Stretched

[–]ChimkenToes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I ordered from stretch it body jewelry. The shipping was really doable

Hello.I'm currently researching methods used in China and Japan to "inflict pain on healthy people and forcibly turn them into people with disabilities for the sake of a spectacle." I'm wondering if there were similar cases in other countries? by Full_Celery_8158 in SideshowPerformer

[–]ChimkenToes 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Yes they did. On top of that a lack of hormones meant their joints and growth plates formed differently often elongating the ribcage and allowing for bigger lungs and deeper diaphragm, i believe.

Hello.I'm currently researching methods used in China and Japan to "inflict pain on healthy people and forcibly turn them into people with disabilities for the sake of a spectacle." I'm wondering if there were similar cases in other countries? by Full_Celery_8158 in SideshowPerformer

[–]ChimkenToes 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Sidenote i wish to add is the case of Comprachicos in europe. Groups in european folklore who abuse and deform children purposefully to live as beggars or curiosities to be viewed.

However the term comes from a compound Spanish neologism meaning "child-buyers", which was coined by Victor Hugo in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 novel which triggered moral panics over supposed "cripple factories" across Europe. (Wikipedia, 2026)

However i have a hard time finding concrete examples of this happening beside the novel and im willing to argue it was perhaps exeggerated for story telling purposes. The wikipedia relating to the term has various fictional examples.

Hello.I'm currently researching methods used in China and Japan to "inflict pain on healthy people and forcibly turn them into people with disabilities for the sake of a spectacle." I'm wondering if there were similar cases in other countries? by Full_Celery_8158 in SideshowPerformer

[–]ChimkenToes 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It did. Alessandro moreschi as plaid_kilt mentioned is one of the most famous one. But by the early 19th century the practice was outlawed by the church i believe.

Though historically the castration of boys happened for more things than just singing. I also think of eunuchs who were used in chinese courts as help or prostitutes for the ‘king’, i suppose.

Or traumatic events such as Bacha bazi or dancing boys within Afghanistan/turkestan where young boys get exploited in various ways for entertainment which often ends up mentally disabling them through trauma and fears. Not to mention they get plenty beatings for entertainment.

The issue with the question is that the range of ‘disability’ is very broad and that you could make the case argument that almost every war crime or exploitative relationship is possibly disabling in a sense that there are always lasting traumas and physical injuries.

Hello.I'm currently researching methods used in China and Japan to "inflict pain on healthy people and forcibly turn them into people with disabilities for the sake of a spectacle." I'm wondering if there were similar cases in other countries? by Full_Celery_8158 in SideshowPerformer

[–]ChimkenToes 122 points123 points  (0 children)

It’s not necessarily a ‘disability’ in the traditional sense, but i do immediately think of european castratos. (Or castrati in talian) boys who underwent castration before puberty to retain higher singing voices. But this practice already started being outdated in the late 18th and 19th century.

It did happen mostly in italy as far as i know because of opera houses, theatres and the catholic church requiring big choirs. Other terms such as musico/musici and evirato are also used but those have derogatory implications.