How did Eunuch castration work in ancient times?

It wasn't such ancient times. Muslims castrated all the male slaves for centuries, we are talking millions of boys and men. I'm not sure how it was done, but I do know it wasn't fun.

Oh, and it was just their balls.

Barbaric

Why are their voices so high?

Why don't we have Eunuchs any more?

They were fun!

The Historical Practice of Eunuch Castration: How Was it Performed

Cauterized, I assume. And a lot of casualties, like female clitoral excision practiced in the area.

You’re dumber than I am.

You'll find out soon, OP.

Did cutting off their balls make Eunuchs "gay by default," or were some of them still considered to be straight?

OP, read Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" for a fictional rendering of choirboy castrati.

There was a mistaken view that castrated males could not get erections. Thus, they were often sent to protect female harems and other royalty, But...

Wouldn’t they have been more worried about procreation than penetration, R12?

You can't procreate without balls, R13.

I don't think they cared too much about the harem considering that they were non-muslim sex slaves. Their actual wives and daughters were another story, of course. The Ottomans had hundreds of sex slaves in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

[quote] Islamic Method: Islamic eunuchs, known as “khawal,” were created through the removal of both the testicles and the penis. This method aimed to ensure the utmost control over sexual desires and prevent any potential indiscretions.

good grief how did the guy survive the Islamic method?

Holy islamic shit, R16! I thought they just cut off the balls. I do know that you will not find a population of descendents of slaves in muslims countries because they were not allowed to have families, all the males were castrated, and any babies born to sex slaves were murdered at birth.

One day at work we were talking about the castrati. A muslim woman I work with was quite horrified. I didn't have the heart to tell her the truth about the millions of men and boys who were castrated while enslaved by muslims compared to few hundred boys that were castrated by the Catholic church for music.

I find muslims are so ignorant of their history and fucking freak out when you tell them the truth. Don't even try to tell them the truth about mohammade, they just might behead you.

R18 it is too true.

Fun times! I recall a bar in the East Village back in the 1970's for this. It was called "Snip It"

That was my point, R14. As long as they couldn’t impregnate the harem, would anyone care of there was a possibility of penetration?

ownership. Denial of pleasure to the eunuch slave or the woman slave.

R18 Like Xtians when you ask them about all the murders God commited in the Bible.

In the West, castrati existed mainly to satisfy a musical fad or taste. The procedure appears to have been used mostly in the East (Constantinople and Byzantium) in what we now think of as the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Then, skipping ahead, it appears to have become something that started to happen in Roman Catholic churches for a relatively brief time in the 1500-1600s and then quickly went over to opera, where the "victims" could earn stardom and very large amounts of money. The whole fad died out by about the year 1800.

If you read Mary Renault's historical novel, "The Persian Boy," in an early chapter, Bagoas explains how he was captured during war and what they did to him to make him a eunuch. I believe he was 10 at that point and is then sold into slavery. He's eventually purchased by a man who prepares him to work as a courtier for King Darius.

R21, I did not know that they removed the penis also. I guess because penetration is a form of power. If you fuck a man's wife, you are a cuckold, regardless if you come or not. Do men without balls even have a sex drive? I doubt it.

R25, that was one of my favorite novels in high school.

These were Muslims who castrated people but that's not why they castrated people, r18. You're too hung up on their religion and it's not relevant.

Would someone please shit in my mouth so I can gargle while I jerk off here?

R23, uhhh, that's really not the same thing. One is stories from thousands of years ago, the other is facts. BTW, the violence in the Torah is a historic record, the violence in the koran is directive....kill the Jews! Kill the infidels! It is being done today but you are too stupid to see it.

[quotye] Don't even try to tell them the truth about mohammade, they just might behead you.

A constant genuine worry in the American office place!

R28, they could not enslave muslims so religion had a lot to do with it. Non-muslims were treated as cattle, to be done with as needed, The Christian West was the first civilization in human history to abolish slavery and in none of the slaves were castrated and the newborns were not murdered at birth. Islam is and has always been very fucked up, if you want to know this or not is on you.

I remember watching Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor."

The emperor had a court of about 1000 eunuchs who would kowtow to him every day.

When Emperor Pu Yi was learning about The Forbidden City, he was told by one of his advisors that the eunuchs carried around their testicles in jars!!

Isn't it weird that so many diverse human societies used castration as a tool?

Enjoy.

R35, sadly he was considered one of the rather mediocre castrati but it's all we have