Sometimes people in the crowd would get caught up in the frenzy and would castrate and cauterize themselves, and then run through the streets in a drugged stupor, and would choose a home at random that they would fling their severed genitals through the doorway, the house chosen would then have to provide female attire for the new inductee for the rest of their lives (which was often likely short due to infection from unhygienically castrating themselves).
Catullus mentions that people who did this while caught up in the Rite's frenzy would often wake up the next day horrified at what they had done, but there was no turning back, that was what they chose
