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From Britannica:
"castrated human male. From remote antiquity, eunuchs were employed in the Middle East and in China in two main functions: as guards and servants in harems or other women's quarters, and as chamberlains to kings. Eunuchs were considered the most suitable guards for the many wives or concubines a ruler might have in his palace, and the eunuchs' confidential position in the harems of princes frequently enabled them to exercise an important influence over their royal masters and even to raise themselves to stations of great trust and power. Some rose to become bodyguards, confidential advisers, and even ministers, generals, and admirals. Most eunuchs underwent castration as a condition of their employment, though others were castrated as punishment or after they had been sold by poor parents".
"Political eunuchs also flourished in the centres of Muslim power after AD 750, and as a class eunuch advisers only disappeared with the end of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century".
"The Italian practice of castrating boys in order to train them as adult soprano singers (castrati) was ended by Pope Leo XIII (1878)". Ouch!!!!!!!!!!
"castrated human male. From remote antiquity, eunuchs were employed in the Middle East and in China in two main functions: as guards and servants in harems or other women's quarters, and as chamberlains to kings. Eunuchs were considered the most suitable guards for the many wives or concubines a ruler might have in his palace, and the eunuchs' confidential position in the harems of princes frequently enabled them to exercise an important influence over their royal masters and even to raise themselves to stations of great trust and power. Some rose to become bodyguards, confidential advisers, and even ministers, generals, and admirals. Most eunuchs underwent castration as a condition of their employment, though others were castrated as punishment or after they had been sold by poor parents".
"Political eunuchs also flourished in the centres of Muslim power after AD 750, and as a class eunuch advisers only disappeared with the end of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century".
"The Italian practice of castrating boys in order to train them as adult soprano singers (castrati) was ended by Pope Leo XIII (1878)". Ouch!!!!!!!!!!
