I've been watching the TV series: Magnificent Century, a fictional account of the life of Suleiman the Magnificent. The harem is extensively portrayed as well as life of the harem girls living inside it.
Im wondering if there are any harems in existence today for the purpose of housing the monarch's female staff, housing concubines for the ruler or just maintaining a "playground" for the ruler. My first thought would be to dismiss my idea as wholly incompatible with modern society. The idea of girls kept in sexual slavery, guarded by eunuchs for one man's pleasure is probably too much for the rest of the world to accept.
The most famous harem that I know of was the Ottoman Empire for the Sultan. Presumably which came to an end at the end of WW1. But there were and continue to be today other Islamic monarchies in existence. What became of those harems? I'm sure these rulers had the same ideas as the Ottoman Sultan. Is there a general date when harems started to die out? Can somebody surprise me and provide an example of a modern harem that continues to exist?