page_title: Castration
hierarchical_section_title: Castration
caption_attribution_description: Cronus (Saturn) castrates his father Uranus, the Greek sky god (before Zeus)
context_page_description: Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testes or a female loses the functions of the ovaries. It is also a type of anaphrodisiac.
context_section_description: Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testes or a female loses the functions of the ovaries. It is also a type of anaphrodisiac.
caption: The Castration of Uranus: fresco by Vasari & Cristofano Gherardi (c. 1560, Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence).