Eunuchs Outlive Other Men

Since women outlive men (when they have contraceptives available), I wondered if this might be true for Eunuchs.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120924142918.htm

ScienceDaily (Sep. 24, 2012) — Castrated men living in Korea centuries ago outlived other men by a significant margin. The findings, reported in the September 25 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, suggest that male sex hormones are responsible for shortening the lives of men, the researchers say.

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People in those days kept careful genealogy records as proof that they were of the noble class. By poring over those records, Min and colleague Cheol-Koo Lee of Korea University found that eunuchs lived 14 to 19 years longer than other men did. Amongst the 81 eunuchs they studied, three lived to the ripe old age of 100 or more, a feat of longevity that remains relatively rare even in developed countries today.

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