Eunuch
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eunuch-179-4087509
title:
Eunuch
text:
A eunuch is a male who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE. Over the millennia since, they have performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures: courtiers or equivalent domestics, for espionage or clandestine operations, castrato singers, concubines or sexual partners, religious specialists, sold
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Castrated male human
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
date created:
2002-08-07T07:34:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T07:48:29Z
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