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Explanation: When the famously corrupt and arbitrary Roman Emperor Nero discovered one of the Imperial slaves looked like his recently deceased wife (whom he himself had killed, according to some accounts), he had said slave, Sporus, castrated and had a marriage ceremony in which Sporus was subjected to the position of Nero's bride.
Nero was not exactly a model of human behavior by any society's standards. Later Roman Emperors would outlaw castration entirely.
I mean, one of his predecessors (and uncle) Caligula was even crazier and more bloodthirsty so Nero must have appeared positively sane in comparison.
Holy hell his wikipedia reads like it should belong to [email protected]