It would have been a toilet sponge that they gave Christ vinegar to suck from when he complained of thirst. I reckon that was standard & highly amusing to everyone watching.
A diabolical infliction of pain no doubt, leaving the victim with a mutilated urethra and profuse bleeding. Slicing off his balls and penis would satisfy a crowd hungry for gore, but hopefully, for the one crucified, only after an involuntary, forced ejaculation from being raped by the cornu. Pushing a barbed wire through the slit and up the urethra would demonstrate a more nuanced approach to torture that would prolong the man's agony.Instead of castrating the penis(which would hasten death anyway):
Why not insert a stiff barbed wire into the penis's slit? and jiggle it around to see the condemned's spasms of pain.
I imagine you could have a lot of fun torturing a big dick, it seems a pity to just cut it off.
Pity. Or the 5 day version. Australia has just beaten SA inside 4 days though , it restores some pride after a disaster of a series. Emasculation would have been less painful or humiliating!
Nice to see a "real" man with a big belly hanging on the cross!
The cross offers lots of possibilities there - not really my thing, I'm not so much into the damage.
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In this paper: Roman Rape: An Overview of Roman Rape Laws from the Republican Period to Justinian's Reign which I found here: http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=mjgl there is a reference to castration in Republican times, although it was not a prescribed penalty:
...in Republican times, rape was frequently punished through private revenge, with the criminal's status often determining the penalty. Valerius Maximus writes that families of the raped women often punished male rapists by castration or death.In The Serpent's Eye one of the men crucified alongside Lucilla had raped his master's slave Verina, a prostitute. She was there to see him crucified, and heaped verbal abuse on him while he hung on the cross. I considered having her be allowed to beat his testicles with a cane in order to vent her wrath, and maybe even have him castrated, but I decided that it was too much of a diversion from the main story.
"Republican times" you say. As opposed to Democract times ?
"Republican times" you say. As opposed to Democract times ?
Thank you Jedakk!I was quoting the reference there, but what that author meant was the period of the Roman Republic, between the end of the Roman Regal Period in 509 BC and the beginning of the Roman Empire in 27 BC.
The Forums here are so full of terrible torture and violence methods for female victims ,that i wonder why a crucified male murder or rapist should not have been castrated while suffering on the cross in various ways :
Painful scourging until full destruction of the sexual parts
The Penis getting spitted through the urethra with a long nail and fixed to the wood
The balls also getting nailed through , ripped off with heavy weights fixed with a noose or crushed by heavy strokes
Finally Cock and Balls burned off or cut off
Cutting off Penis and Scrotum and letting the victim loose a lot of blood could also have been used as a last act of the
Execution
I am convinced that a lot of male crucified victims suffered like this in ancient times
Definitely chopping off the humiliating erection he has while he's on the cross. Removing it while its flacid is just anticlimax.