A rather bizarre question on my personal blog

[seanthomas (imported)]

This morning I posted my thoughts on masculinity after castration on my personal blog and shortly thereafter received an email from a prostate cancer victim asking if "chemical castration could turn him gay". Now I maintain this blog to share my "Wisdom" (read that with a tone of sarcasm) and it's read by people on forums related to prostate and testicular cancer. Although I am not a cancer survivor I simply share what it's like to be a Eunuch and strongly advocate surgical over chemical castration for a number of health and financial reasons.

First I thought I could not give this man a legitimate answer, for in my youth my libido drove me to sexual pleasure regardless of my partner's gender. Though monogamously married for a quarter century, I still consider myself "philosophically bi-sexual" and that did not change after my castration.

I gave the man a decisive NO, that being castrated had no effect on sexual orientation. However, in retrospect I'd like to hear from others their thoughts on this matter.

Gay, straight, transgender or otherwise, does anyone disagree with my premise that castration has no effect on sexual orientation?

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

No easy answer. Perhaps castration releases an exclusive gender identity preferences too?

[Losethem (imported)]

Decisive NO is correct.

Where do people come up with this stuff?

[Begoneboy (imported)]

seanthomas:

Absolutely you answered honestly from how you believe. That is all we can do in life. I happen to agree with you categorically by the way. Our personality is developed long before we become sexually active with puberty. Of course our personality continues to evolve throughout our lives but the core basics from youth don't change much. Your blog is a great insight of rational and I appreciate your comments found in the blog as straight forward and honestly sincere. Becomeing castrated does not change who we were previously. If we were straight, gay, bi or whatever that will not change. Some effects of hormone or lack of them will make some differences in how we feel. But won't change who we are. When I finally rid myself of the external male organs it did not change the person I had been. It simply made me whole in my viewpoint. Granted, as an intact male I never satisfied myself with another male. I rather suspect if I had been female I would also have never satisfied myself with a female. Now that I don't consider myself either both, both are fair game to my way of thinking. Does that make me gay or trans something. Me thinks not since I am now neither. At least in my viewpoint.

[daifu-orchid (imported)]

My! these are absolute and definitive positions.

While we are who we are inside, we are also influenced by environment, including hormones. To deny this is to ignore PMS, menopause, post castration depression and probably much more.

Pruning our bodies doesn't change the inside, but it can make an enormous difference to how they work.

-Or maybe we wound't do it?

[JesusA (imported)]

Based on the surveys that have been posted on the Eunuch Archive, we have some real data about this. 323 men who had already been castrated provided information about their sexuality before and after castration. NOT ONE SINGLE ONE of them changed from exclusively heterosexual to homosexual or from exclusively homosexual to heterosexual. 193 (59.8%) reported no change whatsoever in their sexual attractions. 61 (18.9%) reported that they had become asexual or non-sexual in their interests.

What was most interesting was that 69 (21.4%) reported an expansion in their sexual interests. While still attracted to the same sex/gender as before their castration, they also expressed some interest in others that they had not before. There was more sexual “fluidity” where interests were based more on how pleasant a person was, less so on their sex.