Question for eunuchs

[Woggler58 (imported)]

A belated reply, pertaining to nature and quantity of semen after radiation of one's prostate (and its vicinity) for prostate cancer, with or without TRT afterward for low T. Refer to nvrgag44's reply #5 in this thread. I share his age and prostate cancer treatment situation except that I did go on TRT in generous dosage after my T levels fell to 200, post-radiation.

My previously normal white, jelled, fertile ejaculate ceased being emitted at orgasm during the 6 weeks of radiation in daily small increments. A few months after the end of treatments, a small amount of precum-like clear, slippery, slightly salty-tasting fluid would slowly ooze out as the normal ejaculatory pumping action was ending -- about 1/4 teaspoon. No longer was there that chlorine bleach-like odor. Six + years later, that's what still happens at orgasm, which feels as it always had except for absence of thick semen being propelled under pressure through the last inch of my penis's urethra.

I understand that one's prostate gland makes most of the semen volume and that the two tributary seminal vesicles make the rest, which is fed into the ejaculate as a "chaser" to enhance fertility effects within the receiving female parts. It may be that my clear ejaculate is largely from my seminal vesicles--there's a lot more of it than I ever produced as Cowper's gland pre-cum.

Due to possible cancer relapse, in Feb 2014 I had a biopsy which sampled all regions of my previously radiated prostate (in late 2007) plus the right seminal vesicle. Every core had the same favorable diagnosis: There is marked glandular atrophy with cytologic atypia, representing [previous] treatment effect. No residual adenocarcinoma is identified in these biopsies.

I regard changes in my semen from pre-radiation to result from the radiation-induced atrophy of all that wasn't cancerous, and to be irreversible. The fact that there is a pittance of clear ejaculate is how my "milage" varied from nvrgag's.

For those men who instead chose prostatectomy, they lost their entire prostate plus both seminal vesicles, and thus have no supply of semen at all to ejaculate. (Those who hadn't had a vasectomy before will in effect obtain it at the outlet end of their sperm-carrying vas tubes where they are cut free of the parts removed by prostatectomy.) Those who have their prostate cancer treated by freezing or by cooking by ultrasound will have effects similar to radiation's.

It's known that normal prostate size and semen-making function depend on a supply of normal amounts of testosterone. Castrated men will have shrunken prostates and lowered PSA levels for that reason, same as for shrunken penises.

Prostate cancer patients whose primary, cure-intended, localized treatments fail at preventing relapse are the ones for whom whole-body retardation of their cancer's re-growth may be obtained by whole-body reduction of circulating testosterone to 20 or less by surgical castration or by drug-induced means of inhibiting its natural production.

As EA's Jesus posted in another thread a few months back re old men and orchiectomy, about one in 24 men will at some point in their life get to decide which way they will henceforth become eunuchs. (One in 6 men get prostate cancer; one in 4 of those are already metastatic or have it return after treatment and fail any attempted "salvage" treatment. Of that one in 24 going off T, one in 4 will choose the surgical route, hence about one in every 96 men will eventually have no testicles.)

[Kangan2008 (imported)]

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hence about one in every 96 men will eventually have no testicles.)

I think that the average is higher than that, as anyone who has had hernia repairs might also be missing a testicle or two. Dr. Kimmel told me that he had castrated many elderly men who wanted to stay faithful to their (now aged & ugly) wives. Castration would eliminate the desire to have an affair with a more desirable (sexy) younger woman.