In a culture where a man can have multiple wives, many men would never get a wife. A parent might decide as a eunuch my son can get a job and care for me in my old age. Eunuchs could work in large households with women, whereas a poor man might never get a wife or a job.
A most interesting point. Given the demographic mess of Communist China's "one-child policy" which carried on for decades, there are tens of millions males who cannot be matched with females.
Many cultures and many ideologies of the world have a long way to go before they can be fully considered 'civilized.'
Yeah right - defend a misbegotten culture of horrors. What I experienced then was just a long list of terror. You obviously know absolutely nothing about Islamic cultures other than what your imagination conjures.
And defending castration, without even the benefit of anesthetic, on a young male child is beyond disgusting.
If karma is real, and we do get reborn - it will be your turn to be born within such a culture as a male child castrated without anesthetic so you can pleasure old men (the job of an eunuch) while your parents eat.