Eunuch Sexuality – 1709

[JesusA (imported)]

Yesterday I stumbled across a 1709 book on diseases of the sexual organs. The sexual functioning of eunuchs is obliquely mentioned on page 60. I’ve copied that bit below, trying to maintain all of the original spelling and capitalization, although I don’t seem to have an old-fashioned “long S” available and had to use the modern “s” in its place. While I’ve only given about a quarter of the title below the quotation, I did copy the entire publisher’s information.

The final section of the title of the book is “With a further Warning against QUACKS, and of some late Notorious Abuses committed by them, shewing who they are, and how to avoid them.” The entire book is great fun to read.

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Experience has shewn that such Men as have been deprived of their Testicles, have, notwithstanding, been able to shew their Prowess by diverting themselves with Women, and defiling the Nuptial Beds of others. ‘Tis said that Eunuchs love Women passionately, and being of a weaker Mind than before Gelding, they are also more susceptible of this Passion : It cannot be express’d to what point they will push their irregular Desires, when their Fancy is once inflam’d, and a kind of aqueous Seed in the Prostate or Seminal Bladders irritates their Privities ...The passage in Ecclesiasticus ought to be understood of this sort of Eunuchs, viz. That an Eunuch by his Concupisence is able to dishonour a young Virgin, by ravishing her Maidenhead from her. (p.60)

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Marten, John. (1709). Gonosologium Novum : or, a NEW SYSTEM Of all the Secret INFIRMITIES and DISEASES, Natural, Accidental, and Venereal in MEN and WOMEN , That Defile and Ruin the Healths of Themselves and Their Posterity. London: printed for, and sold by N. Crouch in the Poultry, S. Crouch, in Cornhil, J. Knapton, and M. Atkins in St. Paul's Church-Yard, A. Collins at the Black Boy in Fleet-street, P. Varenne at Seneca's Head in the Strand, C. King, Westminster-hall, Booksellers, and at the Author’s House, the further End of Hatton-Garden, on the left Hand beyond the Chappel, John Marten, Surgeon, writ over the Door.

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[Losethem (imported)]

Oh my....

[seanthomas (imported)]

While everyone is different I went hormone free for years and yet maintained a moderate libido. Not exactly like when I was 21, but according to several similarly aged friends our sex life after castration (without TRT) was virtually on par with those intact friends - several times a month on average. When I went on estradiol last year libido decreased at first then resumed to about the same. Yet when progesterone was added I am now wanting sex about once a week.

[Keineier (imported)]

I don’t seem to have an old-fashioned “long S” available and had to use the modern “s” in its place.

Yeſ, the abſence of the "long s" can be a royal pain in the aſ.

[BillyBlogs (imported)]

Yeah, you've gotta watch those eunuchs. After you've forced them to be castrated, they'll come round and pork your daughter, steal away her virginity and make her worthless for you to trade.

Selfish bastards.