People living in the past suffer a lot.Probably. these men who were willing to castrate themselves belong to such categories.They may think that once they became eunuchs, they do not have to worry about making a living.The more ambitious one may want to rise up the hierarchy ranks to gain power.
I am here after watching the first episode of Love in the Moonlight kdrama. Its horrifying, its insane that they do those things to those guys. Ughhh I just can't believe this kind of thing existed before.
|Some could not urinate, so they died in pain. Those who survived wet their clothes and beds for ages, possibly doing that for the rest of their lives.
so only the one served the royals got castration? the kitchen staff, washing staff, or cleaning staff are not castrated? or all of the male staff regardless job desk as long as they're in the palace will have castration?
The kitchen staff is composed of normal people and castrated people, normal people work as chefs while castrated people do transportation jobs, for example bring raw material in, or bring cooked food to dining hall. Washing staff is actually women working in the harem. Cleaning staff is castrated.
I think that the emperors had low self-esteem. They felt proud for destroying another man's son, and felt more MANLY to see that they have turned fellow men into women. Shame on humans.
The reason is more practical than that, even tho just as trivial and the act just as evil. It was done to ensure that no illegitimate heirs would take the throne. The less the empress and the concubines were around non emasculated men the more that was avoidable.
What if urin did not flow out....would they randomly have accidental urin leakage....so many questions. Did they suffer from depression? I feel like a high portion of them turned evil afterwards.
Now my question is (when they let the service of the emperor how can they live a normal life they can't get married or have children what do they do?) Peace
They were however near useless as frontline warriors, their meat became soft and "flaccid", they were deemed to weak to perform hard physical labor usually expected from male farmers etc. As warriors, they'd quickly get slain even by mere peasant mobs.
To be sure of absolute loyalty. Penises can create Problems in Politic. The same reason that the Catholics church required their service men and women to become practice celibacy.
