Can Castrated Men Still Have Sex?

[A-1 (imported)]

Seems like the answer is yes.

Also, Castration Anxiety (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... xiety.html) is affecting an UN-CASTRATED politician.

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Castration Anxiety

Can a sex offender still have sex after surgery?

By Michelle Tsai

Dec 6, 2007

Wayne Dumond was paroled when Mike Huckabee was Arkansas' governor

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is under the spotlight this week for helping grant parole to Wayne Dumond, a convicted rapist who had been castrated more than a decade earlier in what he claimed was a violent attack. * After Dumond was released from prison in 1999, he went on to rape and murder at least one woman, and maybe two. How can someone who's been castrated still commit rape?

He can still have an erection. In general, castrated men experience a much-diminished sex drive, because their bodies have very low levels of the male hormone testosterone. This lowers the frequency, strength, and duration of erections, and can cause hot flashes, vertigo, loss of body hair, and breast growth. But depending on the individual, it may be possible for him to become aroused and even to ejaculate, although his erection may be modest and there won't be any sperm in his semen. Even if a castrated man can't maintain an erection, he can temporarily reverse the effect by taking testosterone. Also, rapists aren't necessarily driven by sexual desire; a lower sex drive won't prevent attacks that are motivated by a desire for power.

Surgical castration, also called orchiectomy, involves the physical removal of the testicles, which produce 95 percent of a man's testosterone. However, the small amount still produced by the adrenal glands could be enough to allow some sexual function to remain. According to one study from the 1960s of about 1,000 German sex offenders who had been castrated, 65 percent men immediately felt their libido plummet, but 18 percent were able to have sex 20 years later. Based on the small amount of data that exist on this subject, it appears between zero and 10 percent of sexual offenders who are surgically castrated repeat their crime.

Since the 1960s, psychiatrists in the United States have used drugs to treat sex offenders, and today, chemical castration is slightly more common than surgery. Depo-Provera, a synthetic form of the female hormone progesterone, doesn't prevent the testicles from producing testosterone, but it does counteract the effect of the male hormone in the blood. Drugs like Lupron or Zoladex achieve similar results by tricking the pituitary gland into producing less of the hormone that controls testosterone production in the testicles. The drugs can't negate the sex drive completely, though. When these and other similar drugs are prescribed to retard the growth of tumors in male patients, about 10 percent can still have sex.

Comments?

[JesusA (imported)]

Dumb journalist! Hasn't she ever heard of hormone replacement therapy??? A recent meta-analysis of studies on the effect of surgical castration on sex offenders found that it usually (but not always) works. The major exception being those who use HRT. In those cases castration has not effect whatsoever!

Erections and some sort of sexual intercourse were even possible for some of the Italian castrati – castrated before puberty and with no HRT possible at that time. One medical report on a 30-some year-old Russian Skopet, castrated at age 10, has him experiencing an erection during his physical exam.

[devi (imported)]

The desire (or obsession) to have sex and the ability to have sex are two very separate issues. In fact a person with very little desire can have great ability when the occasion arises and conversely one with much desire can have very bad ability.

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

HRT certainly works in our household.

Numbskull reporter or nincompoop editor, or just a slow day with space to fill...? hard to know....

[SplitDik (imported)]

I don't understand why you guys are criticizing the author. The author is specifically saying that castrated men CAN have sex -- it mentions they get erections, it mentions that testosterone is also produced by adrenals, and also mentions testosterone replacement. What did she say that was wrong?

[A-1 (imported)]

The point is that Mike Huckabee is a STUPID bastard.

That's the point.

...and it has nothing to do with politics. He is stupid in sexual matters.

[foxytaur (imported)]

The desire (or obsession) to have sex and the ability to have sex are two very separate issues. In fact a person with very little desire can have great ability when the occasion arises and conversely one with much desire can have very bad ability.

My ability as a top is so bad that the penis stays limp as a noodle. Masterbating is OK, the desire is almost on 24/7. I have a hyperlibido and oh yes I'm a power bottom.

[Jorge2008 (imported)]

Do you also have sex with women? why do you have trouble with erection if you're hypersexual - you're already using chemical castration drugs? I'm definitely hypersexual and have no trouble with erection though I've been on Triptorelin since May.

My ability as a top is so bad that the penis stays limp as a noodle. Masterbating is OK, the desire is almost on 24/7. I have a hyperlibido and oh yes I'm a power bottom.

[AtomicMush (imported)]

I have no balls, I'm on HRT, and having the best consensual sex in my life. Yes, when the T is low, things don't work as well, but with HRT, my life is normal.

By the way, I lost my ballsies due to cancer, although I'm glad they are gone, I like the way I look and feel, I an happy where I am now with HRT. Before HRT, sex was a fond memory, along with the nasty side effects, life was hell.

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[Jorge2008 (imported)]

How often do you inject/take T? I mean, regularly or only at times when your wife wants to make love?

I have no balls, I'm on HRT, and having the best consensual sex in my life. Yes, when the T is low, things don't work as well, but with HRT, my life is normal.

By the way, I lost my ballsies due to cancer, although I'm glad they are gone, I like the way I look and feel, I an happy where I am now with HRT. Before HRT, sex was a fond memory, along with the nasty side effects, life was hell.

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