China's Last Eunuch Spills Sex Secrets

Reuters ^ | Sat Mar 14, 2009

[nickcarraway]

Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again at death.

China's last eunuch was tormented and impoverished in youth, punished in revolutionary China for his role as the "Emperor's slave" but finally feted and valued, largely for outlasting his peers to become a unique relic, a piece of "living history."

He had stories of the tortuous rituals of the Forbidden City, Emperor Pu Yi's last moments there and the troubled puppet court run by the Japanese during the 1930s. He escaped back to the heart of a civil war, became a Communist official and then a target of radical leftists before being finally left in peace.

This turbulent life has been recorded in the "The Last Eunuch of China" by amateur historian Jia Yinghua, who over years of friendship drew out of Sun the secrets that were too painful or intimate to spill to prying journalists or state archivists.

He died in 1996, in an old temple that had become his home, and his biography was finally published in English this year.

It unveils formerly taboo subjects like the sex life of eunuchs and the emperor they served, the agonizing castrations often done at home and also often lethal, and the incontinence and shame that came with the promise of great power.

"He was conflicted over whether to tell the secrets of the emperor," said Jia, adding that Sun preserved a loyalty to the old system because he had dedicated so much of his life to it.

[Holicheese]

” the day his father cut off his genitals,”

Ummmm, OW!

[SJSAMPLE]

I’m squirming in my chair.

[SolidWood]

family threw away the pickled remains that should have made him a whole man again

Ewwwwww!

[ikka]

Something we could maybe suggest certain members of Congress go through?

[wombtotomb]

The republicans have already been done, for the most part...

[RexBeach]

Mark Russell used to joke about being the DC Delegate this way: “Sending a rep to the Congress without a vote, is like sending a eunuch to an orgy.”

[posterchild]

I caught myself reading parts of it with one eye covered - as if that were going to help lessen the squirm factor.

[ClearCase_guy]

So that’s what a “lockbox” is for ...

[domenad]

Hey this guy was married to my ex, too! Wow, small world isn’t it?

[Delta 21]

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled......Eeewww!!

[JoeProBono]

China's last eunuch Sun Yaoting

[2harddrive]

What did they remove? Just the testicle sack? Or the Wing-Wang too??

[never4get]

"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. He was unconscious for three days and could barely move for two months."

....OMG, that hurts just reading it. In fact, my head is spinning and I feel dizzy.

[2harddrive]

The article made it clear that they took off EVERYTHING!

[Never on my watch]

Sounds like he is a contender for RNC chair.

[wombtotomb]

LOL, so it would seem......

[ClearCase_guy]

Opera fans may note that the last european "castrati" singer died in 1922.

We think we live in a very modern world, but many of the old ways of doing things have only recently disappearred. Given a large enough social disruption, societies could easily bring back eunuchs, slavery, torture, and public execution.

When we defend western civilization, we attempt to guard against the return of these things. And the Left opposes us.

[a fool in paradise]

He died in 1996...

Another figure from the Clinton era.

[Robert DeLong]

According to Wikipedia:

In China, castration of a male who entered the caste of eunuchs during imperial times involved the removal of the whole genitalia, that is, the removal of the testes, penis, and scrotum.

[Ditter]

Rush was talking about this kind surgery recently. He called it a ‘chopadickoffame”. He said it at least ten times and I howled with laughter every time. He was referring to those who have it done voluntarily not these poor souls.

[Isabel C.]

China's Last Eunuch Spills Sex Secrets

So, what sex "secrets" did this article supposedly spill? I didn't read of any in the article. I guess the author decided to keep them secret.

[Gorzaloon]

....OMG, that hurts just reading it. In fact, my head is spinning and I feel dizzy.

Thanks, Dad, for only using the belt once in a while...

[allmendream]

I prefer the “Addadicktome” reference to the surgery that the city of SF was paying for so one of its employees could go from an “innie” to an “outtie”.

[Eagle Eye]

Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age

Heck, those events bring tears to my eyes as well!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Looks like they cut off the penis, too.

[Ditter]

That one cracked me up too! he he

[Leisler]

I believe it is a RNC required prerequisite for Republicans, especially for Senate candidates.

Democrats just elects gays.

[PzLdr]

At his death in 1996, this guy still had more b*lls than the curent Administration.

[Big_Harry]

And to think that I used to holler when pop gave me penicillin with the same bent needles that he used on the cows. Geez!

[Venturer]

Something we could maybe suggest certain members of Congress go through?

Are you kidding.?? There isnt a testicle among the republicans and most Democrats are little less than puppets on a string.

[beelzepug]

“...societies could easily bring back eunuchs, slavery, torture, and public execution.”

Aren’t all these still common-place in the Muzzie world?

[Larry Lucido]

Well, all cultures are equal. Next!

[MyTwoCopperCoins]

“Well, all cultures are equal. Next!”

Next? Here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-S3uoeTXg

Alessandro Moreschi (November 11, 1858 - April 21, 1922) was the most famous castrato singer of the late 19th century, and the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make solo sound recordings.

[Twotone]

“So, what sex “secrets” did this article supposedly spill? I didn’t read of any in the article. I guess the author decided to keep them secret.”

You have to wait for the movie. This was just the teaser.

[Slings and Arrows]

Lorena Bobbit is taking copious notes.

[a fool in paradise]

So, what sex "secrets" did this article supposedly spill?

[martin_fierro]

Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals...

Don't eunuch it until eu've tried it.

[GQuagmire]

Ouch!

[Slings and Arrows]

Yep, pretty much.

[GQuagmire]

You have FReepmail

[SunkenCiv]

“I’ve never felt pain.”

“Never?”

“Just twice — once, while I was out hunting, I fell down a hillside, onto a bear trap, and it slammed down on my groin.”

“Ouch! What was the second time?”

“When I got to the end of the chain.”