Everything alright down there?

"The Old Testament declare, "He whose testicles are crushed or whose male member is cut off shall not enter the assembly of the Lord." Rabbis had to show those parts were in working order before they could lead a temple. This same demonstration was later required of Catholic priests-- even of the Pope. "On the 11th August, 1492, after Rodrigo [Borgia] assumed the name of Alexander VI, and made his entrance into the Church of St. Peter, " British historian William Roscoe wrote, "he was taken aside to undergo the final test of his qualifications, which in this instance they might have dispensed with." That last comment no doubt refers to the fact that Cesare Borgia, the Pope's biological son, was then one of the most famous political figures in Europe.
The "final test" alluded to by Roscoe is said to have involved a piece of furniture called sedina stercoraria (dung chair). This object, which resembled an ancient commode, was designed so that when the newly elected Pope sat on it, his testicles would descent through a specially placed hole, where their existence could be verified by a cardinal specially chosen for the task. According to legend, the origin of the practice was lass the Old Testament proscription against eunuchs than a ruse played on the Church in the ninth century by a cross-dressing woman who, so the story goes, briefly ruled the Church as Pope John VII. True or not, the woman is now called Pope Joan-- and the chair evidently exists. So says Peter Stanford, former editor of the London Catholic Herald, who says he sat in the chair in a backroom of the Vatican Museum. "I plonked myself down," Stanford writes in The She-Pope.
It felt like a desecration. The Vatican Museum has the aura of a church and all my
childhood training revolved around not touching anything in God's house... Pulse
racing, white-faced, I leant back and back... The keyhole shape, I noticed as I brought
my spine vertical, was in precisely the right place."
- David Friedman in A Mind of Its Own pg 15-16