Am i the only one?

[DavidB (imported)]

I don't know, maybe it's just me, or maybe it is the gay thing, but I have no problem telling people that I am a eunuch. It's who I am and what I wanted so my thought is "what's the big deal". Friends and family know and it's not an issue for any of them. I lived way to much of my life being concerned about what other people think, after being castrated a bit over a year ago I am happy and proud.

[unencumbered (imported)]

I don't know, maybe it's just me, or maybe it is the gay thing, but I have no problem telling people that I am a eunuch. It's who I am and what I wanted so my thought is "what's the big deal". Friends and family know and it's not an issue for any of them. I lived way to much of my life being concerned about what other people think, after being castrated a bit over a year ago I am happy and proud.

When people close to me discover that I had my testicles removed they, express their concern for me. When I tell them that I'm fine and not to worry because it's no big deal, they don't know what else to say.

[alex_feu (imported)]

I'm also straight and interested in castration...

[Nikiforos (imported)]

Huh....Before I was made an eunuch, I was completely stright. I don't interesting such a strange matter much before though....

[nullorchis (imported)]

I state the obvious. One does not need a penis or balls to urinate.

Thus, the ONLY function for these dangling participles is nature's copy machine.

If you don't want to participate in that part of nature, you really don't need the tools to do a job you are not going to do.

Testosterone is the driving force to engage in sexual activity.

With low or no testosterone a man can still provide sperm for "survival of the species".

Even with no testes, assuming frozen sperm has been stored, reproduction is still possible.

If testosterone is causing a person problems, lowering it, one way or another, seems like a logical course to take.

How many men in prison would not be in prison had they been able to lower their testosterone? We will never know.

Those problems fueled by testosterone could be extreme for the individual and socially unacceptable.

Or they could just be internal, or no interest to anyone else but the individual themselves.

It's your body, your life. Why not pursue it on your own terms?

Unfortunately society, medicine, government continues to decide how each individual shall live, or not live

But one mold does not fit all.

Sometimes you just have to go it alone, out of the norm, at odds with society.

But whatever the decision, be safe, responsible, hurt no one, and be absolutely sure of your decisions.

The costs, time, and stress of professional assistance is probably the best course of action.

It is quite possible that with assistance, some other course of action than what you feel should be done might be revealed to you as an alternative.

But the social negativity about any man wanting to eliminate his testosterone is so strong it is very tough to seek counsel.

The assumption is that counselors will immediately see you as flawed, and in need of correction; that they will not work with you to discover if what you think you need is really what you need; that instead they will work to mold you into what they think you need. If seems transfolk are more able to get viable guidance, but not so much the man who seeks only to become testosterone free (with or without balls).

So, wanting to be testosterone free, one way or another, or even genital free, is still the elephant in the room.

Not something talked about in public in any kind of frank, serious discussion.

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Which is why so many men who want to be testosterone free wonder, Am I the only one?

The EA, and a few studies, have shown us that NO, such a need is not unique.

Like red hair, tall people, short people, or mensa people, in a vast pool of billions of people, a certain number of men born have the need to be testosterone free.

While society has a problem with this, the individual should not let society control their life.

Hopefully some day orchiectomy and penectomy will just be another line item on the urologists price list and scrotum removal will just be another line item on the plastic surgeon's menu.

I will re-add as I frequently do, my life long intense craving to be castrated subsided when I finally eliminated natural testosterone production.

I view testosterone as the culprit. For me, getting rid of it was the cure.

I am eunuch like, just not castrated. Which for me is an acceptable alternative now that I have experienced it.

Not all that fond of surgery, so things worked out.