If I amputated the testicles of a boy, would he speak exactly like a girl when he becomes an adult?

Question

What would his speaking voice sound like?

Answer 1

This used to happen until the late 19th century in some parts of Italy. The result is a Castrato.

A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.

Castration before puberty (or in its early stages) prevents a boy's larynx from being transformed by the normal physiological events of puberty. As a result, the vocal range of prepubescence (shared by both sexes) is largely retained, and the voice develops into adulthood in a unique way. As the castrato's body grew, his lack of testosterone meant that his epiphyses (bone-joints) did not harden in the normal manner. Thus the limbs of the castrati often grew unusually long, as did the bones of their ribs. This, combined with intensive training, gave them unrivalled lung-power and breath capacity. Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice, as well as higher vocal ranges of the uncastrated adult male (see soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, sopranist, countertenor and contralto). Listening to the only surviving recordings of a castrato (see below), one can hear that the lower part of the voice sounds like a "super-high" tenor, with a more falsetto-like upper register above that.

Answer 2

In the 11th and 12th centuries in Italy they would take boys with beautiful voices and castrate them (cut of their testicles) so they would keep their high boy voice. They where called castrati. Yes, with the testicles removed before puberty the boy would have a high voice, and would develop no masculine features and the penis would stay boy size. The chinese would castrate all the male servants of the Empress so that they could not have sex or impregnate the women of the court.

Answer 3

You must be the local village idiot.

Answer 4

is that what happened to michael jackson? i knew it was something! why do you ask? i am afraid of your answer please dont harm yourself or any little boy! good luck.

Answer 5

thats mean!! You took away his manhood!

Answer 6

no, his horomones in his body may still be made...i think. but thats gross and wrong anyway.

Answer 7

And why will you do that?