Sun Yaoting, the last livijng euneuch in China, was living history when he died in 1996. Thirteen years later, his biography is finally coming out, and it reveals things like the sex lives of eunuchs and their emperor, the castrations performed at home, and the resulting incontinence.
Sun cried to his amateur biogapher only when recalling his castration and the time when the pickled remains were later thrown away. He became a eunuch to gain acces to the emperor's Frobidden City, in hopes of avenging stolen property and the buring of their home by a landlord. The description of Sun's home castration is not for the faint of heart or stomach.
His desperate father performed the castration on the bed of their
mud-walled home, with no anesthetic and only oil-soaked paper as a
bandage. A goose quill was inserted in Sun's urethra to prevent it
getting blocked as the wound healed.
OK, that's enough about that. It took him two months to be able to leave his bed, when he discovered the emporer he intended to serve had abdicated.
HIs biographer told Reuters, "He never became rich, he never became powerful, but he became very rich in experience and secrets."
So depressed now.
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