wikipedia search for Eunuch / Castration.

[homptydumpty (imported)]

Let me start with an off topic question. Is castration considered amputation?

If so, by me being castrated am i therefor an amputee?

Needless to say i fee like an amputee.

I was searching threw wikipedia & came across the eunuch article as well as the castration article. I am upset that no real mention of modern day eunuch's or elective castration is mentioned. Is this a shady topic? does it not deserve light?

Mostly i am upset because really i feel that something is to be said for us, we are here, alive, living & breathing, making a difference. Yet we are not notable? Its not really any one of us as a individual, more its us as an archive or collective community of like minded or maybe just like bodied individuals.

I am upset & would like to rectify the situation by revising or contributing somehow to the wikipedia article yet need help....

Any advice?!

z

[streetglide (imported)]

Z,

My Dad is an amputee...he's got special tags on his car and gets the good parking spots!

We're amputee's also...oh, it might be a little strange explaining this one at the DMV wouldn't it!

I know what you mean though. For me it's not something I want to draw attention to, so I'll just live with it!:D

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

I believe some members of the EA have revised the Wikipedia article on castration and eunuchs in the past only to find the articles have been revised again to resemble the original text. --FLO--

[Jean Op den Kamp (imported)]

I believe some members of the EA have revised the Wikipedia article on castration and eunuchs in the past only to find the articles have been revised again to resemble the original text. --FLO--

Are you telling us that there are other people who are more patient and calm then eunuchs............I didn't know that

loveUall

Jean

[Uncle Flo (imported)]

I have heard the dead are very patient and calm. --FLO--

[JesusA (imported)]

User-written Internet content is open to all kinds of problems. While much of Wikipedia is quite good, it can never really be trusted as a source. EVERYTHING needs to be carefully checked.

When I first became aware of the article on eunuchs, I saw that it had many serious errors. I spent a couple of days going through my historical and medical sources and wrote a large section to replace some of the most egregious errors in the article. I posted it and then checked back a few days later to discover that several of the corrections I had made (from very respectable and highly academic sources in several languages) had been replaced by the original errors. The last time I checked, every change that I had made but TWO had been replaced or removed.

Of my two, one is actually a small error that could be quickly caught by anyone who checked the original source that I cited. It's there for the same reason that map makers always put in minor errors in unimportant places. You can quickly tell when someone copies your work without giving credit.

I have found my intentional Wikipedia error repeated in several different places that did NOT cite Wikipedia as their source. I know immediately that they are not to be trusted.

Thefraj wrote a very nice couple of paragraphs for the Wikipedia article about the modern voluntary eunuch community. None of it remains in the current incarnation of the article.

[Jean Op den Kamp (imported)]

I have heard the dead are very patient and calm. --FLO--

Thanks Flo, maybe the first who understands.

It was only 37 years ago

loveUall

Jean

Hey Jesus, did you Ctrl-c and Ctrl-v and saved your work in a file. If some hours later your result is gone, put it back. Maybe they have another "nun on fire" working at wikipedia

loveU and please look for my email: need you

[homptydumpty (imported)]

Thank you everyone for your valid responses.

I am not sure what to think of all this...

[nullorchis (imported)]

Let me start with an off topic question. Is castration considered amputation?

If so, by me being castrated am i therefor an amputee?

Needless to say i fee like an amputee.

....

Any advice?!

z

My advice: Consult official on line medical institutions, medical journals for fairly reliable information. The internet is a great place for hype.

My thoughts on amputation: It is something that is done because of medical necessity and involves any part of an arm, finger, leg, toe. Removal of internal body parts is referred to as an _______ectomy, like a lumpectomy, a surgical excision of something from inside the body.

I guess you could think of testes as big unwanted lumps and castration as a lumpectomy. But their removal, as we know, is an orchiectomy.

The "o r c h i" coming from "orchis" which comes from ancient Greek word for testicle(s) used like we use the word testes or testicle.

I always wondered why removal of testes wasn't testiclectomy or testesectomy. It's because medicine uses an ancient Greek word "orchis" instead of testes or testicle.

Physically castrated one would be "orchis free".

The word "ORCHID" the flower, came about because the orchid bulb looks very much like a testicle, some more than others.

Orchids are pretty sexy flowers, with long upward pointing stems, and flowery heads.

In my case I am not orchis free, but my orchis are null and void, dead, numb, lifeless, useless. Like having two artificial dangling participles wagging in the breeze. It's pretty cool really, compared to my life before. But I would feel much better getting rid of them, being that they are useless, and they will always pose some risk of tumor or cancer. So far no help from the medical community on that.