But at earlier points in Western history, the author argues, it was a mark of power and divinity. In the medieval love story of Abelard and Heloise a violent castration makes Abelard a better theologian. In the year 2000 a sterile but otherwise functioning man is a boon to the woman who desires sex without the burdens of pregnancy. Clever, offbeat, and learned, ranging from allegory to zooarchaeology, the book turns an unusual and discomforting topic into a thoroughly enjoyable narrative on man's obsessive relationship to his genitals, his sexuality, and his manhood. Man is not the creature of circumstances.
Circumstances are the creatures of men.
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