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In traditional Judaism, gender plays a central role in legal obligations, such as mitzvah. Thus, the gender identities of the Talmud (including androgynos, tumtum, and ay'lonit) were created to fit into their legal system. A saris who, naturally, did not undergo typical male puberty is referred to as saris hamah (Hebrew: סריס חמה ).
This passage has been variously interpreted as referring to men who desired other men, so-called eunuchs ("those disguised as males, and those that are disguised as females"), [39] male and female trans people ("the male takes on the appearance of a female and the female takes on the appearance of the male"), [40] or two kinds of biological ...
Zhang Yong (1465–1529) was a Chinese eunuch who held a position of influence in the government of the Zhengde Emperor, emperor of the Ming dynasty, from 1506 to 1521.He was part of a group of eunuchs known as the "Eight Tigers" who had served the Zhengde Emperor since his childhood.
The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalises them, rendering them eunuchs. The book was published in London in October 1970.
All of this gradually diminished the royal harem, though it, as well as the harem of the elite families, still maintained a smaller number of male eunuchs and slave women until at least World War I. Khedive Abbas II of Egypt bought six "white female slaves" for his harem in 1894, and his mother still maintained sixty slaves as late as 1931.
A man has admitted freezing the leg of an alleged ringleader of an extreme body-modifications group, who is accused of filming castrations and posting videos of them online.
Gustavson’s Eunuch Maker pay-per-view website shared footage of people undergoing “dangerous, unnecessary and life-changing surgeries” carried out in people’s homes, the court was told ...
The Harem Ağası, head of the black eunuchs of the Ottoman Imperial Harem. 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 ...