Life span as Eunuch

[jako9999 (imported)]

Hi all this is a bit of a strange question but does been castrated reduce your life span does anyone know how old the average eunuch lives to or how old the oldes one was?

I know its a bit like how long is a piece of string but most medical problems reduce your life span ie. one kidney 10-15 years off and the big one in this case arthritus.

Anyone got any ideas or read anything anywhere after all we are all trying to get there but are we all cutting our life short?

Thanks

[tugon (imported)]

When I was castrated I was looking for quality of life and not quantity so I never considered if I would be shortening my life. Before castration my life was not worth living. Once I was a eunuch and happy with myself life improved. The situation I was in before and my behaviors I surely would be dead today. I have enjoyed 14 years as a eunuch and will be happy with any time I have left. After castration it has been icing on the cake.

[tugon (imported)]

Sorry I did not answer your question but went on one of my tangents. We have some members that can enlighten you on your questions. I wll say that my health issues I have now I had or they were beginning prior to castration. I do not feel that castration will shorten my life.

[punkypink (imported)]

From what I've heard, sometimes it may actually prolong one's life, especially if the risk of testicular cancer was removed. I don't think theres a generic answer to whether castration reduces or lenghtens one's lifespan, it depends far too much on personal medical factors.

[janekane (imported)]

I am very close to 50% older than my brother, who had the same genetic condition (familial adenomatous polyposis) was when he developed "incurable terminal cancer." Being a member of a genetic cancer risk family, something I recognized while a teenager, the evidence is profound to overwhelming that my probable life duration has been formidably extended because of my orchiectomy and colectomy.

Testosterone, the last time I checked, was on the State of California list of known carcinogens. By the late 1950s, it was reported in the medical literature that testosterone increased basal metabolism by about 10%, and increased basal metabolism had been found to apparently shorten probable lifespan.

The reason, in my view, that the question of castration and lifespan for any individual person is an imponderable is because castration is likely to change quite a few aspects of a person's activities and such changes are, a-priori, likely to have indeterminate future effects.

Nevertheless, supposing that I make it into old age (72 is not, to me, even close to old age), not needing orgasms and their resulting cardiac stress might add years to my life. Or not.

Methinks we make our choices and discover the consequences of our choices as the consequences occur.

My hunch, based on a presumption that I am decently competent in biology, is that castration by the mid forties may plausibly extend a persons expectable (if not attainable) age of demise by about 5%.

A hunch is only a hunch.

[Losethem (imported)]

Like others here have stated, I did not get castrated for any sort of benefit to increase lifespan. For me it was a choice to make my life worth living. If I get a bump in time on earth from it, so be it. I am taking HRT (testosterone), so I don't know if I'll get any bump or not.

There is one case of a person not living long after their castration. I'm sure many people here remember a user named Luvpain who died, I think, within a year of his castration. If memory serves he had other medical issues, so his may not be the best example to use in this lifespan conversation. I only bring him up because he is an example of a shorter lifespan after castration, but there is no saying if in his case he wouldn't have passed on if he had not been castrated.

Then you get guys like me (I'm coming up on 6-years post-castration in a week or so), others that have been so for 25 years, etc. Anecdotal evidence there suggests that castration makes no impact on lifespan at all.

This is a question that will probably remain unanswered until someone with legitimate scientific credentials decides they want to look into it.

--LT

[gandalf (imported)]

Like Losethem, I am coming up on the six year mark after castration. Feel great...most of the time. Since I am 73 and will soon be 74, I will be glad if there is a nice bump in longevi

ty.

[jako9999 (imported)]

Thanks for the replies as you say it doesnt realy matter I am only just startting on my jurney and want them gone because I want the smooth look and also my brother had cancer and made it which is always in my head after all prostrait cancer is a major killer in the UK and lets face it its another useless part of the body after its been used for a bit if only we get rid of it as well and reduce all risks.

Long live everyone

Thanks

[devi (imported)]

The book I that had read seemed to think that historically they probably were. But it was hard to know given that there were no statistics nor sometimes even a clear definition for a "eunuch". However often enough because of the mortality rate of rulers, matters of the state in different areas of the world and at different times and time periods would often be left to be handled by eunuchs. Everyone else who was capable and knew what was going on had apparently died.

As for my own personal life, I was told something as a youngster by a healer that leads me to believe that I would. But then again you just don't know until it's all over and by then it's too late. And in the meantime of life the mind decieves.

[colin (imported)]

There are other threads which have addressed this and it seems that, in general, a eunuch can expect to live slightly longer than an intact male - possibly 2 to 3 years.

However, many other factors can affect this and, of course, a eunuch is much more at risk of problems caused by osteoporosis.