Holidays is here, time for a job.
I passed a sex shop at Chinatown. They are hiring sales staff.
Would you work in it? I think it would be the least boring job on earth.
Stories, Pop Culture & Makan Places.
"His desperate father performed the castration on the bed of their mud-walled home, with no anaesthetic 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."
They Don't Need Eunuchs Anymore
"When he finally rose from his bed, history played the first of a series of cruel tricks on him - he discovered the emperor he hoped to serve had abdicated several weeks earlier."
They no longer need eunuchs.
Brief Service
"The imperial court was resuscitated long enough to give Sun a chance to serve the wife of the boy emperor Puyi -- a position that gave him the distinction of being the last eunuch to the last Chinese emperor"
Family Discarded His Preserved Manhood
"After the Communists came to power in 1949, Sun and other surviving eunuchs were despised as freakish symbols of the feudal past. He was nearly killed during the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s, and his siblings were so fearful of persecution that they threw away his bao, or treasure: the severed genitals that eunuchs kept pickled in a jar so they could be buried as complete men."