In-frickin-believable that anyone would countenance this, mutilating and rendering a child sterile for life.

Almost irrelevant compared the magnitude of that evil is the fact that the majority of those who got operated on later in life reported they weren’t any happier after the fact.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744