Eunuch
castrated male human
A eunuch is a castrated man. His genitals have been removed. This can be cutting off the testicles or removing the penis and the testicles.
Over the millennia since, eunuchs had a lot of different functions in different cultures such as domestics, treble singers, religious specialists, government officials, military commanders, and guardians of women or harem servants. When eunuchs ran a harem, a monarch could be sure he was the one who fathered his wives' children since real eunuchs were always infertile.
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Other websitesEdit
- The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
- Eunuchs in Pharaonic Egypt
- Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China Archived 2008-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- "Born Eunuchs" Home Page and Library