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For most of the people in this book, bodily alteration was not a choice. Those who underwent amputations, mastectomies, and facial surgeries generally did so as a last resort. By contrast, this chapter deals with a group of people for whom surgery was a calculated decision, made by somebody close to them. The castrato – a guy gelded in childhood to preserve his youthful singing voice – provides a rare example of a body which was ‘created’ by surgery to fulfil a purpose.

In examining writings about castrati, I will exhibit how close attention to the altered body sometimes precluded engagement with the person who lived that body as something more than a singer and sex object. Stories about the lives and loves of castrati were almost exclusively told from an outsider’s perspective. They are thus an apt reminder, at the commencing of this guide, of the difficulties we face as readers when trying to imagine what it was enjoy to live with, in, and through an anomalous body. Those who wrote about castrati described them in terms which emphasised their physical difference and their value as ‘instr