Harem of Jewish slave traders to supply eunuchs to harems depended on whether they could acquire castrated males. European artists and writers envisioned and presented the Oriental harem in a romanticized, albeit historically inaccurate manner. The dark eunuch was held as the embodiment of the sensual tyranny that held sway in the fantasized Ottoman palace, for he had been "clipped" or "completely sheared" to make of him the "ultimate slave" for the supreme ruler. In the Ottoman court, white eunuchs, who were mostly brought from castration centers in Christian Europe and Circassia, were responsible for much of the palace administration, while
A Man Called Destruction as well as a play on both the title of the Western film "A Man Called Horse" and the Biff Bang Pow! song "A Girl Called Destruction". A Man Called Destruction A Man Called Destruction is a studio album by American pop rock musician Alex Chilton, released in 1995. The album consisted of six songs written by Chilton, and six cover versions including Jan and Dean's "The New Girl in School", which had featured as the B-side to their "Dead Man's Curve" single. "It's Your Funeral" is based on Frédéric Chopin's "marche funèbre" which became the 3rd movement of his