Survey Number 4

[JesusA (imported)]

This survey is designed to help us to understand interest in castration, eunuchs, and related subjects. There will be questions related to your experience in childhood, and also sexual history. Whatever your status—whether you are castrated or not—if you read the Eunuch Archive we hope you will take the survey. What we learn here should help health care providers better serve those who have an interest in castration. The full questionnaire takes approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. Regardless of your level of interest in castration, you are invited to take the survey; all responses are valuable.

The survey includes questions on childhood experiences, castration desire and sexual history. Those who completed our previous questionnaires may recognize some questions repeated here. This repetition is so we can compare the results from the older surveys with results from this newer survey. Some questions may seem irrelevant. Some may be quite uncomfortable. Many are part of questionnaires that have been used with other, quite different, populations to which our findings might be compared. Such comparisons will help to place eunuchs and the eunuch-interested into a larger context. The uncomfortable questions may help us to point out important differences with other populations to whom eunuchs are sometimes compared.

All data collected will be kept completely confidential. We do not ask for names or addresses or any other identifying information.

Please answer as honestly as you can. We hope that you will fill in all the questions, but you should feel free to skip any question that you feel uncomfortable answering. Please also note that “castration” in this questionnaire is defined as any procedure that removes or destroys the testicles themselves or causes them to no longer function. This is not the same as removal of foreskin (circumcision), removal of the penis, which is termed “penectomy” in the questionnaire or “nullification” which means that both testicles and penis have been removed.

Publications that are based on this survey will be announced on the Eunuch Archive and made available to any who request them from the authors. Publications from the earlier surveys (2005, 2008, and 2017) are available from the authors. You can request copies either through the Eunuch Archive or by writing directly to us. A recent post lists the 30 papers currently available: http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... rch-papers

(http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... rch-papers)

If you have any questions about the survey and its use or purposes, feel free to contact Prof. Thomas W. Johnson ([email protected]). I will be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Thank you.

Tom Johnson

The survey is now closed with 850 completed responses.

[WheelyCurious]

Great! I wanted to thank you for sending me the papers that I asked you to (including the earlier survey result papers) and say that I would be willing to participate in any future research.... Looks like the future is now.

(Still feel free to reach out to me if you have any other questions / research you are doing in addition to the survey)

WheelyCurious

[Fixet (imported)]

I did the survey aswell today.

[syndrome2 (imported)]

all is answered

[Valery_V (imported)]

I also took the survey today.

I tried to be helpful to the researchers.

Thanks scientists!

[Losethem (imported)]

That survey was long, but it was also rather thorough. There were some aspects which needed improvements for people who are castrated or nullified. Some questions did not give an option to pick if you had already had these procedures, but demanded an answer even when they did not apply to my situation.

[Wolf-Pup (imported)]

Done! (and just typing "Done!" is too short so you get this bit of bonus message )

[AcordingIP (imported)]

Done. Badly designed. Honestly answered. Anything to promote our community gets the thumbs up from me.

And yes, I used to be a statistician. It's a sad life - imagine the office parties. But some weird questions in there....

[Losethem (imported)]

Done. Badly designed. Honestly answered. Anything to promote our community gets the thumbs up from me.

And yes, I used to be a statistician. It's a sad life - imagine the office parties. But some weird questions in there....

As a fellow statistician and eunuch, I'll take anything which attempts to get at answers needed for legitimate research into our community. A lot of pushback for getting us the care we need openly is due to, "no research", which I'm rapidly learning is WPATH speak for, "go away..." Or at least it seems that way.

There's not enough research is the general chorus, but nobody (except Jesus) seems to have any interest in taking it on.

[AcordingIP (imported)]

LT - I agree.

The devil is always, always, in the detail and much more research is required. At least if only to broaden general acceptance of our requirements. Arguably the medical stuff is already pretty well established. Yet the phycological aspects are rarely understood. And if they are, then rarely countenanced. I've lost count of the number of urology consultants that I have discussed this with. Hence my mildly hesitant decision to forego UK healthcare and put my fate in the hands of a well respected Mexican.