Zoroaster (imported) wrote: Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:38 am I'm kinda living evidence that pain is sufficient in some cases. I was castrated friday night (in a hospital, by a doctor) after having injured mine pretty badly. El doctor was willing to leave my fucked up nuts in, but they hurt and I asked for them to be removed (plus, well, I do hang out here, after all) and he said the pain was enough to justify it in his opinion. He presented the case at a conference and said for the first time in history, about 30 urologists were unanimous in saying yeah, take 'em out.
Now, mine were mostly nonfunctional as well, and fertility is not an issue for me (eek. Kids. no thanks...my dog's all the child I need), so I was able to make a pretty strong argument that there's no reason to leave them in.
(Incidentally, I do plan to post the full story of my awful hospital trip when I'm done writing it up; it's good for a few laughs)
Congrats. I'm sure all of us are looking forward to the write-up.
When I finally sought to have my balls harvested, I was told of a couple of instances where medical practicioners had removed guys' balls for reason of pain (maybe non-functionality as well?), but I couldn't discover the names of the practicioners that'd done it. So when I ran into the vet's ass't that said he'd do it, I was confident that I could get it done with little fuss and bother. There was some risk because my friend wasn't a medical practicioner, but I figured that he'd done a couple of hundred domestic animals was sufficient qualification even though he'd never done a human before. I think I could've eventually found a local practicioner to castrate me, but the notion of not waiting was too appealing. My doc didn't seem too alarmed when I told him. I've since found out that the gay clinic at which my doc practices treats about half a dozen ballless guys. The nurse says they were all done by 'cutters.'
