<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=129209.msg5722285#msg5722285">Quote from: Toa on 14-01-2012, 01:37:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Such things depend greatly on the social circumstances. Many of the eunuchs who served as advisors, grand vezirs or in other important roles were volunteers. You just can't castrate a man and than expect his total loyalty.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Totally not. LOL. That's just asking for someone to attempt an assassination.<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> What rulers in this times were looking for were talented young men that were so eager for wealth (compared to often being desperatly poor in the fist place) that they would effectivly sell their testicles to get that nice gouvernment job. Castration is not only helpful because the eunuch can't be sexually involved with the harem women, he is also socially isolated. He will have no woman and no children, making the ruler his only close connection. Had I lived in this times I would have volunteered to be castrated. you just have to see the possibilities a young man vs. a young eunuch had in these times. I know it is unusual for modern day readers, but it was a normal part of life in many countries for millenia and I wouldn't wonder if today in arabian countries some rich oil princes generously pay young men from the third world to have themselves operated and serve them. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I'm just of the mind that I can't see selling my ability to get off for money. some things are rather dear to me. *chuckles* There are some who would, and probably do, as you say. Even my boobs... if someone offered me a million dollars to cut my tits off... no. Well... I could always get plastic surgery and get bigger ones :P I kid.<br/><br/>I do see what you're saying, and in those days it afforded comforts that they couldn't get being an average male.<br/><br/>I'm familiar to a degree with the need for eunuchs but I did learn a bit here from what you just said.<br/><br/>I've just never come across anyone who enjoyed playing this or would consider this in real life.<br/>