Peniisus (imported) wrote: Tue Oct 19, 2010 4:12 pm I wonder if today there are still harems being attended by eunuchs. Perhaps discretely in some obscure sheikdom there is a bed chamber attendant fanning and pampering a large group of locked up females.
Yeah, it is pretty reliably documented that there are lots still in Arab countries.
This reference here might not be as reliable (Russian newspaper), but the story has a believable style and level of detail: http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/W/ea_15653white_eu.htm
And modern day slavery is still particularly prevalent in Saudi Arabia: http://www.beinformedjournal.com/beinfo ... demic.html While the majority of this trafficking is domestic slaves, you can bet some percentage of them are castrated -- there were major harems guarded by eunuchs documented into the 20th century, so it is not that something that would necessarily be gone especially in societies where old traditions seem to die hard.