I actually wonder how many of these guys go on HRT because they have no healthy outlet for their sex drive so what to stomp it out by taking estrogen. Almost like a fat person who takes speed to kill their hunger.
Of course, there seems to be far more cross dressers who take HRT because it gives them a perverse sexual thrill, just like wearing women’s clothes.
Casterato were created for art. Their voices were revered and even if it was fucked up to cut the balls off of young boys it did at least ensure they had a job and elevated position within Vatican choirs for the rest of their lives. Given what survival was like during the period they lived in it was considered a pretty good trade off.