The third sex: The physical study of eunuchs in Qajar court
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Eunuchs have played numerous roles in the political structure of Eastern rulers since ancient times.Their existential necessity in the political structure was, in principle, derived from the needs and of a part of the political system. The harem was a place where only numerous women and female slaves of kings lived there. Now to organize the internal affairs of the harem, as well as the relations of the king and every other person and with the harem women, they had hired eunuchs. The fundamental question of the present article is how can eunuchs be defined sexually? Did the eunuchs define themselves as a man or not on the contrary, they considered women themselves to be able to have a proper relationship with women in harem. The research hypothesis is that Eunuch cannot be regarded as necessarily male or female ,rather it is about the third sex that possess some biological biological traits on the one hand and some biological and sexual feminine traits on the other. According to the study, it became clear some of these male children are castrated as a child and so they lose one of the most important biological characteristics of the male and others that were eunuchs naturally and congenital. Physically and morphologically some organs eunuchs such as facial shape, lack of beard and sebaceous limbs gave them a feminine appearance. The third sex theory introductory presented in this paper,it involves the idea that eunuchs are an example of androgyny, not the word yung that is about combining the mental states of men and women in the same sex, Rather, they are an example of the male and female hybrids at the physical level.

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Persian
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Journal of Iran History, Volume:12 Issue: 1, 2019
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167 to 184
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