Does testosterone make men reckless?

[happousai (imported)]

So today, I was rushing to go somewhere on foot. I went out the front door of my house, then tried to close it, but due to a faulty lock it wouldn't close from the outside. So I went back in and locked the front door; I decided I would have to exit the house another way.

I went into the attached garage, and opened the automatic door. Once it was fully open, I pressed the close door button (at the far end of the garage) and ran out the garage as the automatic door went down... but as I got out the garage, the door stopped closing and re-opened all the way! I tried this another two times, with the same result.

Not to be defeated by a mere garage door, I looked around and found an obvious motion sensor less than a foot above the ground. I must have been tripping this sensor whenever I ran out of the garage, causing the door to come back up. I went back to the button, pressed it, and ran out the garage, this time jumping over the sensor as I passed it. This time, I was successful.

I bumped my hand on the descending door as I ran through it however, and now I have a bruise on my finger and it hurts just to type this. I think that was quite a reckless action I performed. And I got to my destination with 10 minutes to spare. Had I thought about it, I could have gotten the spare garage door remote control out of the drawer and used it to close the garage door from the outside. Or, I could have at least dropped what I was carrying outside the door before performing my stunt. Or, I could have probably unstuck the front door lock if I had tried a little more.

Instead, I decided to run through a descending garage door because I'm reckless, and maybe it was kind of fun.

Did testosterone make me do this? Or my lack of good judgement? Or both?

[Charlieje (imported)]

All of the above, Happousai.

Like just about everything else on this earth, Paolo notwithstanding, nothing is magic. I found after my T level dropped to castration levels I was much more calm, much more capable of dealing with situations as they arose. But I still get mad, still do stupid things, still get frustrated.

Eunuchs are still human, and I have never yet met a perfect human, eunuch or not. I mentioned in my recent story that squirrels, deer, and probably other animals do stupid things when they are suffering from testosterone poisoning, but eliminating the testosterone doesn't make them all wise.

In your case, fighting with garage door openers, I have to admit I have done that both before and after being a eunuch. Sooo... for what it's worth...:tongueout

What I'm saying here is, if that's your ONLY reason for getting castrated, don't do it!

[sag111 (imported)]

i thanke it dose to some extent.i am not a eunuch but i take depo provera to supress testosterone. since i have been on this medecine i defentaly am more calmer and i dont get mad varey easy any more.but i still do dumb things but i can handel them better now

[Bboy]

Why do you think that the greatest percentage of spinal cord injuries happen to young, typically teenage, males?

Hmmmm?

[A-1 (imported)]

Maybe you're just hyperactive and impulsive.

They are behaviors. Just as neutered dogs still hump and neutered cats still spray, you'll still go around jumping under doors and trying to beat trains to the crossing and such.

Try a little behavior modification. But beware. The hardest thing to change is one's behavior.

Ya gotta be a risk taker to get castrated, too. Ya dig?

Slow down, stop, look and listen.

A-1

[Mac (imported)]

Maybe you're just hyperactive and impulsive.

They are behaviors. Just as neutered dogs still hump and neutered cats still spray, ...

This isn't true if they are fixed before these behaviors begin.

[colin (imported)]

Sorry Mac,

But you are wrong there. Most of the dogs I know were castrated by the age of 6 months and all have developed the habit of humping around the 2nd year.

You see, the problem is that nobody has told them that they have been neutered - so they don't know any different.

LOL

[Dave (imported)]

Don't blame this all on testosterone, it's not the big evil in the world of men's behaviour. Testosterone hsa a role, but other things affect behaviour.

Testosterone makes men big and strong. But, the adventursomeness (if that's a word) or the capacity of young men in their teens and late puberty is due more to brain development than to testosterone.

As teens grow, the last portion of the brain to develop into maturity is the ability to discriminate between dangerous and foolhardy behavious and measured responses.

This is why young men, like 16 to 20, have the attitude that they are indestructible. Their braisn haven't yet develpoed the necessary mechanism to make that type of judgement. That's why young men (18, 19, and 20) make such good soldiers. Their brains are willing to accept the risk and adjust to the killing. Older men, 21 to 25 plus, have fully develpoed thought processes and some experience in the world or risk taking. They tend to take less risks.

This is also why people get politically conservative in their later years - - (like late 30's, 40's and 50's. . . it isn't some grand political revelation, it's the realization that they have a lot to lose when they participate in risky behaviour.

If you observe a 15 or 16 year old very carefully. (And believe me, observing a kid that age is really hard) ... You can see all sorts of sudden snap decisions that they make that are very risky, or very foolish, or very impolite. Their brains haven't developed yet. Compare their behaviour to what they do a few years later as they reach 21 or 22. If you observe closely, you can see the changes in attitude and what we call maturity.

Babies grow fast and their brain grows fast. Teenagers also experience a growth spurt and the last part of their body that gorows and matures is the brain. Although you may think you (or your kid) is completely grown, the body may not consider itself adult until at least 21.

[happousai (imported)]

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This is why young men, like 16 to 20, have the attitude that they are indestructible.

What about young women of that age; what's their brain development like?