That ablation of the testicles alone does not destroy the sexual feeling, nor even greatly impair its pleasure, is proven by the fact that among the Roman ladies the spadones became a favorite and greatly prized class, with whom they might indulge themselves to their heart's content, without fear of sexual consequences. Ad securas libidinaliones, as Jerome remarks; and vultfuiui Oallia, non par ere, as the biting epigrammatist said of a patrician lady who sought the company of eunuchs.1

And the choice did infinite credit to the ladies' judgment; for along with immunity from the danger of conception, and the fact that the copulative act is more prolonged with castrated than normal men, there is a psychological novelty in such a connection equal to that of the young lady who married a man with one leg, because, as she remarked, two-legged ones were "so common."