Eunuch

The term eunuch generally refers to a man who has been castrated, typically early enough in his life for this change to have major hormonal consequences. In Latin, the words eunuchus, spado, and castratus were used to denote eunuchs.


Cry to Heaven
The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance
Historical Fantasy Bundle: (The Imperial Harem Girl, Sex Life of an Ottoman Eunuch, Princess Penelope's Island)
The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (Ernest Bloch Lectures) (Volume 16)
His Majesty's Concubine: The Prince's Eunuch
The Janissary Tree (Yashim the Eunuch #1)
The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age
Sword Dance (Sword Dance, #1)
The Castrato and His Wife
The World of the Castrati: The History of an Extraordinary Operatic Phenomenon
Nightingale
Angels and Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera
Castration
Eighteenth-Century Diaspora of Italian Music and Musicians (Speculum musicae, v. 8)
Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour
Karkhana by Waswo X. WaswoNew Science by Giambattista VicoAcqua e olio by Anna GraciottiCount Girolamo Lucchini by Patrizio PatriziMonteverdi's Voices by Tim Carter
Early Modern Italy (1600-1800)
56 books — 9 voters
The Persian Boy by Mary RenaultCry to Heaven by Anne RiceNot a Man by M.A. McRaeSoulless by T. BagginsEvensong's Heir by L.S. Baird
Best Eunuch Stories
56 books — 27 voters

Cry to Heaven by Anne RiceThe Bells by Richard HarvellInterrupted Aria by Beverle Graves MyersPainted Veil by Beverle Graves MyersThe Iron Tongue of Midnight by Beverle Graves Myers
Books about Castrati
74 books — 15 voters


Norman Mailer
“ I must purchase this eunuch from You," she said to Ptah-nem-hotep, Who smiled agreeably. "Are they not delightful?" He asked, and looked at the dark bodies of these five slaves with the same love I had seen my great-grandfather give to a team of matched horses or twin bulls, and indeed, since the slave wore nothing, one could see not only their plump and muscular haunches, but the shiny stump where their testicles had been and this gave them a nice resemblance to geldings. ...more ”
― Norman Mailer , Ancient Evenings

E.M. Forster
“ You could call your cousin a shit if you liked, but not an eunuch. Rotten style! ”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

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Q&A with Stephan Clark ...February 15, 2012 to March 16, 2012...
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