Atreyu69 (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:54 pm
had I been nullified at age 10 or 11 I think the change in my anatomy might have driven me even more to boy interests just to prove to myself that having (or not having) a dick wasn't everything. I'd like to think that I was more than plumbing, more than my genitals.
One of the errors parents make is to force sexual characteristics on very young children; I.E. boys are cowboys and girls are princesses. I'm not aware of any studies that have been done specifically on this but, yes, I think we can and do have "masculine boys", nullified or not. Think about castrati singers, primarily in the Catholic Church, castrated at very young ages and well before Testosterone was even known, not all developed into largely feminine characteristics, genetics has great pull on what we do, are and how we do it. As a child I had no use for the stereotypical things but, like another poster, had telescopes, lab sets, magnifying glasses....interests that stayed with me. Possibly why I became first a Physicist and then a Surgeon. I was castrated many years ago, do take testosterone although for another reason and am as manly or masculine as any man would wish to be. It is a fascinating question that will increasingly be studied as stereotypes in child raising change.
CircItaly (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 1:38 pm
Wish to have a time machine to prove it
If nullification had been offered to me at age 10 or 11 I'd have been tempted but I'm pretty sure I'd have turned it down and kept my stuff. I just didn't have the guts back then and I still don't today.
PetJohan (imported) wrote: Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:30 pm
Think about castrati singers, primarily in the Catholic Church, castrated at very young ages and well before Testosterone was even known, not all developed into largely feminine characteristics,
Just think of what the reaction would be if people were making new castrati singers today. It would spark another civil war. It's odd how attitudes about kid castration has changed over the years. 150 it wasn't considered such a big deal and that was long before antibiotics and pain killers. It sure must have sucked to be a boy in the olden days!
It sucked even more to be a defeated soldier or conquered adult males after losing wars back when mass castrations of all the defeated males was a battle victory enjoyed by the winning soldiers, along with breeding all the conquered females of the newly made eunuchs as the spoils of war.
Any females wanting kids had only the victors sperm and dicks to get pregnant with. Their grown men knew exactly what they as sexual men lost. And eunuchs had to watch the enemy breed their wives and daughters and then help to care for and raise their enemies kids as their own.
