Thanks for the information and for the support, everyone. I'll be reading quite a lot into it. Having met a few people who have gone through with it for reasons similar to my own, and their complete (open) lack of regret for doing it, my curiosity is certainly piqued.

I am not quite sure how to introduce myself in particular. I would say that in the past 5 years, this extremely uncanny desire to be without my nuts has thoroughly embedded itself in my mind. There are a whole myriad of motivations for it. I tend to shoot down and invalidate most of my own ...