This is What a Native Castrator Told Me In An Interview
I took 2 Lessons home but what she said is giving me sleepless nights.
Selfishness and wickedness run in the hearts of men. This is my new resolve after my interview with a Castrator.
I crossed paths again recently with a native Castrator after so many years of leaving the village to the city. And I asked her the one big question that has been bothering my heart.
Instead of one answer, I got more than I asked. Her revelation blew my mind. The second revelation is taking night's sleep out of my eyes.
According to Wikipedia.org;
Castration (also known as orchiectomy or orchidectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles: the male gonad.
Surgical castration is bilateral orchidectomy (excision of both testes), and chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to deactivate the testes. Castration causes sterilization (preventing the castrated person or animal from reproducing); it also greatly reduces the production of certain hormones, such as testosterone.
Castration is different from Penis removal or Emasculation.
The term castration is sometimes also used to refer to the removal of the ovaries in the female, otherwise known as an oophorectomy, or the removal of internal testes, otherwise known as gonadectomy.
Surgical castration in animals is often called neutering. The act is all about the removal of the male animals’ testicles.
Castrations of animals was a popular practice back then in the village. The act of castration isn't a job for everyone. It wasn't done by all persons.
In fact, there was only one castrator back then in my village. She is a woman. She is an expert in the act. She is addressed as a native castrator because she uses crude instruments and herbs. People from far and near brought their male animals for castration.
We took our goats and cattle to the native castrator for castration.
Apart from castration, she also performed circumcision and female genital mutilation. I had witnessed all of these as a child.
While the Modern Castrators use surgical tools like Burdizzo, a castration device which employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles, our Native Castrator had only two instruments for all these activities; the razor blades which the clients bought and the herbal fresh leaves. The native castrator provided the herbs but charged the clients for it.
There was an opening dug on the earth where the blood was allowed to drop during castration, circumcision, or genital mutilation process. The blood from the bleeding flesh didn't always come in large quantities. The castrator always had fresh-squeezed leaves inform of herbs by her side. As soon as she was done with the cutting or the mutilation, she quickly dabbed the squeezed out juice on the bleeding site. The bleeding would cease.
I think the leave was used for blood clotting purposes. Once the juice from the leave is squeezed on the bleeding flesh, the blood flow would cease immediately.
All the while, it did not cross my mind to find out from my grandparents why we took our male goats, ram, and cattle for castration. Even if I had asked them, I would be rebuked. Such discussion was forbidden for a young child like me.
As a child, it was a taboo to utter such words as testicles, breasts, pubic hair, and other ‘senior’ private parts before the elderly parents. In fact, sex education was very far and abhorred.
So, even if I had wanted to ask, which mouth would I have used to pronounce testicles before my grandparents? Before I would be beaten, I would have to explain where and how I learned the word.
But that was many years ago.
Recently, I crossed paths again with the native castrator, after so many years. I booked an appointment with her. Not for animal castration as usual but for one on one interview. I wanted to ask her the one big question that has been bothering my heart.
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An Interview Section With a Castrator
**Interviewer: Why did you choose to become a Castrator?
*Castrator: I didn't choose. I was chosen. My father was a castrator and he handed over to me. He made me see it as a tradition.
**Interviewer: Apart from animals, have you castrated a human being before?
*Castrator: Of course! Countless times. On many occasions, we castrated rapists. My father castrated male newborns.
**Interviewer: What reasons made people brought male newborns to your father for castration?
*Castrator: Nothing but cheered wickedness.
They were brought for circumcision but the enemies paid my father heavily to castrate the newborns in the process.
To disguise this evils act, my father always had ways of tricking the parents of the newborns into believing the child had deadly lumps that needed to be removed.
Castrations of male newborns were the only way to extinguish a particular gene and generation and it was a secret deal between my father and the evil clients.
I have castrated full-grown men who were rapists twice when I became a Castrator. But the case raised dust and took our warrant chief who signed the punishment to prison. He served a six-month jail term. That was the last time I took the human castration contract.
**Interviewer: What became the fate of those babies that were castrated?
*Castrator: I don't know much about all of them. Some of them were brought from neighboring towns. What I have observed from these babies who were castrated is that they grew up to become giant criminals.
“Castrate a man, he ‘ll become a giant criminal. Beware!”
**Interviewer: Why did my grandparents and others bring their male animals to you for castration?
*Castrator: They feared replication of animal species by another; the same reason they didn't make it as animal rearers.
** Interviewer: I don't understand. What did you mean by the replication of animal species?
Castrator: I know you won't. You were very tender then. But let me ask you.
Why did your grandparents require my home service most of the time? I mean, why did I come to your home for the animal castration contract?
**Interviewer: I used to bring the animals by myself if they were few in number. You were always invited to come over when they were many.
There were female goats in the house that usually gave birth to 4 or 5 male goats at the same time. The she-goats were known to give births to only he-goats and in multiples.
Castrator: That is it!
That is what I meant by animal species replication.
Your grandparents and other animal rearers had particular special species that delivered triplets and quadruplets. They were hiding those species from one another. They never wanted others to replicate the specie. They quickly castrated the male offsprings that stemmed from such species.
They feared others might bring their female animals for crossing. So, they quickly hired my services to castrate the male goats and dogs, and I did. The male animals were sold in the markets for meat.
**Interviewer: Yes. They were so big and fat.
*Castrator: Yes. They had no testicle. Everything stored back in their bodies. They were like the female species at that time.
This was the major reason why your grandparents and other animal rearers in the community didn't succeed in animal husbandry.
**Interviewer: How?
*Castrator: The she-goats grew old just like women and stopped reproducing.
**Interviewer: But we left their female youngs.
*Castrator: Yes. But you didn't leave the male youngs to cross them. The castrated ones couldn't do anything. The rearers couldn't help each other because they were all into the selfish business of castration.
My Take-Home Lessons
Even though I got more than what I bargained for in the interview, I took 2 lessons home.
- The Interview teaches me that what goes around comes around.
The Men that were castrated so that there won't be a continuation in their generations, grew to become terrorists. Every villager now lives in fear.
They may not be reproducing, but they are recruiting potent members.
2. For the male animals’ castration, I took another great lesson home.
My grandparents and co were unsuccessful in animal rearing business because they wanted to become the sole Jack in the trade.
In life, we need to replicate ourselves through others so that there will be a continuation when we are gone.
