"Cesearius again: "a monk called called Bernard at Calavux was troubled by lust. He then dreamt that he was pursued by a man dressed as an executioner, carrying a long knife, accompined by a black dog. Eventually his persuer caught and castrated him, feeding his balls to the hound. The man found himself phyiscally intact but free from lust." (108)

Similar stories told about Elias, and a stranger story from the golden legend, where a pilgrim commits fornication and then is tempted by a demon in the guise of st james the apostle, to castrate himself, he is going to this until st james himself saves his balls

Cassian's 6 stages of chasity.

"the point of origen's castration was to remove scandal rather then to remove desire. The latter, as ORigen said, it refused to do" 113

Golden Legend, 98

The LAbour Of Contiteince: Masculinity and Clerical Virginity, John H Arnold found in
From Medieval Virginities. Edited by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. xiv + 296 pp.