this miniature had done by a persian and his sons to mock ottomans and somehow some sultan granted permission to translate it. it is not ottoman originally. the book contains more miniature and stories like this.
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Oil wrestling is Greek (and broadly balkan, mostly thracian). It has nothing to do with turks or Islam, and western turkey used to be Greece.
It's not gay at all, it's just supposed to be difficult (the reason for the oil). Back when it was created, everybody didn't scream about "homoeroticism" and shit. Now everyone has to shoehorn faggotry into everything.
Can't speak for what the intentions of modern turks are, but oil wrestling isn't Turkish and isn't gay.
It's impossible to do this sport without looking gay, but there isn't a special connotation. Even in turkey this is done right next to the border to Greece.
Greek wrestling already looked gay as fuck, even though it wasn't (modern Greco-Roman wrestling is NOT greek wrestling). So throwing in olive oil didn't really up the ante much on that front, it just made it significantly more challenging.
Eunuchs were usually used for court functions because they had no ulterior motives via attraction to anyone. In the cases where emperors were faggots, they usually fucked other intact men. There's actually very few examples from history of anyone being with Eunuchs.
The emperors and officials already had 1000s of concubines, and they could very easily find another actual faggot if they happened to be one