>The castration process was well documented by the Ming period. The young male child was brought by their family or were orphans. The castrations were usually performed with one slash of a small knife outside the Forbidden City for a fee of six silver pieces. The Forbidden City contained a special eunuch clinic where candidates had their genitals removed while sitting on a special chair with a hole in it. The eunuchs lost their testicles and penis (“the three preciouses”). The only local anesthetic used was hot chili sauce. After the procedure a plug was placed in the wound and the urethra and left there for three days. If urine poured out of the wound after the plug was removed, the operation was considered a success. If the operation was not successful, the patient usually died a painful death. Candidates that did not survive were carried way with their penis and testicles in a pouch for reunification in the afterlife.
Similar to how parents voluntarily volunteer their own sons for the procedure today. It was done with consent then as it is now. Consent. Offering up your child's peter and balls... Or today offering up penis skin to jews. We are told it is for "cleanliness" but why would God create us with body parts we cannot clean?
>The practice reached its peak during the Ming dynasty with some 20,000 being employed in the Forbidden City. Imperial eunuchs survived until 1924 when the last 1,500 of them were banished from the Forbidden City, according to one observer, “carrying their belongings in sacks and crying piteously in high pitched voices.” The last imperial eunuch, Sun Yaoting, died on December, 17, 1996 at the age of 93 at his home in a Beijing temple. He was offered by his family and castrated at the age of 8. Unfortunately for Sun, he was emasculated only a few months before the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and his genitals were destroyed by his family in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution out of fear that they would be punished by Red Guards for having them (Demick 2009)(Jia 2009).
https://www.arsinoelibrary.org/EPS/articles/eunuchs-the-role-of-eunuchs-in-the-han-dynasty-imperial-court/
>The castration process was well documented by the Ming period. The young male child was brought by their family or were orphans. The castrations were usually performed with one slash of a small knife outside the Forbidden City for a fee of six silver pieces. The Forbidden City contained a special eunuch clinic where candidates had their genitals removed while sitting on a special chair with a hole in it. The eunuchs lost their testicles and penis (“the three preciouses”). The only local anesthetic used was hot chili sauce. After the procedure a plug was placed in the wound and the urethra and left there for three days. If urine poured out of the wound after the plug was removed, the operation was considered a success. If the operation was not successful, the patient usually died a painful death. Candidates that did not survive were carried way with their penis and testicles in a pouch for reunification in the afterlife.
Similar to how parents voluntarily volunteer their own sons for the procedure today. It was done with consent then as it is now. Consent. Offering up your child's peter and balls... Or today offering up penis skin to jews. We are told it is for "cleanliness" but why would God create us with body parts we cannot clean?
>The practice reached its peak during the Ming dynasty with some 20,000 being employed in the Forbidden City. Imperial eunuchs survived until 1924 when the last 1,500 of them were banished from the Forbidden City, according to one observer, “carrying their belongings in sacks and crying piteously in high pitched voices.” The last imperial eunuch, Sun Yaoting, died on December, 17, 1996 at the age of 93 at his home in a Beijing temple. He was offered by his family and castrated at the age of 8. Unfortunately for Sun, he was emasculated only a few months before the end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 and his genitals were destroyed by his family in the 1960s during the Cultural Revolution out of fear that they would be punished by Red Guards for having them (Demick 2009)(Jia 2009).