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by angersock 5169 days ago
"But the idea of altering human sexuality with surgery is extremely recent, and I am unaware of any precedent in nature (feel free to correct me)."

Eunuchs have been around for quite some time.

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Well, if we're going to be technical, you don't alter sexuality (mindset) with surgery, you alter sexual organs. And that wasn't so much a change in sexuality as a change in ability to reproduce. :X Also, "surgery in a nature" seems like a bit hard a precedent for.
It depends on your yardstick; from an evolutionary perspective, eunuchs are still extremely new, and I'm unaware of examples in other species. Also, most eunuchs had it forced upon them, so it's not really a fair comparison.