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A eunuch (/ ˈ juː n ə k / ⓘ YOO-nək) is a male who has been castrated. [1] Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. [2] The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE.
Don Juan (1819–1824) by Lord Byron, in Cantos V and VI, has a eunuch from the Sultan's harem. The eunuch buys Juan, a non-Muslim, as a slave, brings him to the sultan's palace in Constantinople, and threatens to castrate him if he does not put on a dress. Juan is presented to the sultan as Juanna and spends the night in the women's quarters.
The Eunuch (Chinese:鬼太監) is a 1971 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Teddy Yip, and starring Pai Ying and Lisa Chiao Chiao. Cast. Pai Ying as Lord Kuei Teh Hai;
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Skoptsy is a plural of skopets, at the time the Russian term for "castrate" (in contemporary Russian, the term has become restricted to referring to the sect, in its generic meaning replaced by the loanwords yévnukh е́внух, i.e. eunuch, and kastrat кастрат).
Harish's wife is at a crossroads. She is aware that he will never stop living as a eunuch, but the negative social stigma around gender is something she cannot fully accept. In the state of Rajasthan, a eunuch community exists, overseen by Sharada Bai, the guru, and leader of over one-hundred eunuchs. She lives in a mansion with eight disciples ...
The Ming eunuch hats were similar to the Korean royal hats, indicating the foreign origins of the Ming eunuchs, many of whom came from Southeast Asia and Korea. [83] Yishiha was a Jurchen eunuch in the Ming dynasty during the Yongle emperor's period and Jurchen women were also concubines of the Ming Yongle emperor. [84] [85]
The film starts by interviewing the Sheriff of Haywood County, North Carolina at the Waynesville home of S&M enthusiast Richard Sciara—known as 'Master Rick'—where he and two of his companions had been castrating men.