<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=129209.msg5721911#msg5721911">Quote from: Secretwriter on 13-01-2012, 23:33:40</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">lol eh, she just thinks that him thinking it's an honor to have his balls removed is a bit... stupid. That's how I'll put it nicely, not how she said it in my head.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>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. 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.