I don't know how old you are, but I started my pension last March.

My first recallection of castration was around age 8. I don't think that it was more than a week later when I went to the tack shed alone and banded my balls for the first time. I was curious. When the docking was done I asked why and the adults told me that it was done so the little boys couldn't make babies.

The next year at docking time, I'd ask about it and if I could be castrated. This disturbed my parents, and I was taken to a priest for a talk.

I didn't want children. Through college I had considered a vasectomy. My uncle and cousin went on "A Hunting trip" to another state and were cut together without their wives consent. Causing a stir in the family and the town.

I later got married, and had kids, for which I am greatful.

That Menopause word came around. I'm still horny as ever. The wife isn't. I still have the castration fantasy so, after the wife tried HRT, and didn't do well with it, I tried chemical castration.

Chemical castration didn't take away the desire for me only made the erection and ejaculation damn difficult.

As I left a sex club one night the attendant asked how I liked my stay, 6 ejaculations for a 60 year old wasn't all that bad.

In reality I have had the ability to castrate myself since back when elastrator bands were black and flat instead of green cheerios. I've been banding my balls for nearly 60 years but realize for me it's just a fantasy.

As for the priest that told me I was a shameful sinner that was going to hell.

I don't believe in his imaginary friends any more, much less that his holy spook tells me what to do.

Looking back I think the youngest age should be when you can understand the consequences.

I did not think I could qualify for a response then read the next post and the guy is 60. I'll be sixty four next month and have a similar answer. I hated my little dick when I was eleven at summer camp and saw all the other boys' penises flying around like rubber hoses. I didn't know much about sex but I knew I liked girls. What I didn't know is that girls like big dicks or certainly not micropenises. After having a daughter, a divorce, several relationships, I got a vasectomy. After the "last relationship" with a woman of eleven years, I started thinking about castration. Several years ago my therapist talked me out of this. Beginning a month ago, I was so mixed up being impotent with a lot of Paxil and my past bi sexual experiences, I was thinking some real crazy stuff. So I went to my new therapist (it was our first session) and demanded to be castrated. He sent me to the psych ward where I was deemed sane,depressed with an above average IQ. Hence, my story can only conclude one thing: if a boy is eleven and hates his penis, the parent should pick up on this and do something about it. What about the family doctor? Should there be a practise of asking the boy about his sex organ? I think so.

I have been following what seems to be a very poor outcome of someone who was castrated in their 20's which is usually considered old enough to make the decision. They do not want to take T and although other medications maybe influencing the situation, the person has fallen into an acute state of depression and has not been able to function. This seems to have happened about 2 months after castration. I guess that the T levels in a man in his early 20's are so much higher than say someone in his late forties that the risk of depression are greater.. as they drop. I know other non T eunuchs on here have been castrated without severe depression, but I believe that this individuals age has been an aggravating factor...

Legalities aside. I would suggest that early teens would be the minimum age in reality. The recent cases of the 2 young TS cases in Europe illustrate that young teens are very much sexually aware, if not active. Surely, the desire to be rid of ones balls is no more an outlandish desire than to be a girl, and yet the medical profession has listened to these young people and acted accordingly. Perhaps the medical profession should listen to any young teen (or older) who wishes to be castrated, and then guide them, especially with regards to health and hormones etc. so that they may enjoy life the way they wish, regardless of sexuality.

JesusA (imported) wrote: Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:12 pm Here I would like to have some input from Archive members with BIID as to their thoughts about demanding that someone wait, and if so, for how long. At what age did YOU first want your testicles removed? How did you feel about waiting? Should someone who is not yet 18 (or 25) have to wait? Why? Why not?

I'll respond to this line of questioning. As a child I was quite content with the fact that visually I did not have testicles. they were there, but embedded deeply in me, I knew of them cause the doctors talked about them. I actually found them to be kind of disgusting on the boys I knew , when I saw them. I was glad that mine didn't show.

At 16 , when they were finally visible for a short time, I was deeply depressed, and very distraught due to their presence. I begged for them to be removed. Not just because of body image, but also due to the discomfort that they caused. The pain was no fun, and the barbaric treatments that I endured trying to "make them work ", in my teens only cemented my desire to be free of them.

For the several years that they were visible and attempting to stretch skin to accomodate them, I tried to avoid being seen nude. I was embarrassed that they had shown up, and felt unnatural with them there. By the time I was 20 they had retreated back into the inguinal canals. and for the most part were there for the next 30 years. I again felt correct, and sought out sexual partners again.

Now that I have passed a full year since their removal, my only regret is that I didn't meet a doctor who would have done it much earlier in my life. Functionally I was HRT dependant and sterile anyway, and they were more often than not painful, its amazing to me how resistant the medical community is to make such a simple procedure available to a person like myself who could only benefit from castration.

In my life , owing to my own situation, I have had the fortune to know quite a few eunuchs, both natural ones, and those created by surgery or accident. There are myriad ways that a male can find himself ball less, and just as many reasons for choosing that option. I know of only one who truly regrets the decision to remove them, and that is largely coupled with a bad mix of male and female hormones, and antidepressants that have left him somewhat immune to the benefits of testosterone. I think that if that issue were resolved, his regrets would fade away quickly.

In my own case, I was making the right decision at age 16 when I was begging to be castrated, as it would have eliminated years of discomfort from both pain , and the emotional trauma of having this part of me that I wasn't supposed to have. I am not sure that all guys are equipped to make that decision at that age, but many are, and truthfully with proper counseling and support there is no reason why a 16 year old would not be prepared to make that life changing decision. I do believe that young straight or gay men who opt for castration should bank sperm , "just in case" they want children later, but no one requires that you use it.

As to depression, well, that is something that needs to be dealt with , most easily by small doses of Testosterone, but also with other drugs as well. Continued therapy as they transition from male to eunuch is also a good idea.

I feel that I am a well rounded person , with widely varied interests , who just happens to be a eunuch. It is part of my everyday life, but does not consume it. I strive to assist those who are struggling with the decision, and make their own choice a bit easier. For me, removing my tiny shriveled testicles in 2008 was the cure for the one thing that really messed with my life. My body and mind are now in accord, and I am the happiest I have ever been in all my years. It does help too, to be pain free, but its the lifting of the weight that having an incorrect body part caused that really is the best change.

Raymar

I think appropriate age depends on the functionality of the testicles and the ultimate outcome for the guy involved. If the testes are not functioning at all, then it doesn't matter what age, so long as the man is fully informed. If the desire is like mine (Wishing to remain otherwise male, but has functioning testes), I'd say 25 is a good age minimum as the testes produce many hormones other than testosterone and those are need for the full formation of the human male body. By age 25 the growth and development has finished, or at least mostly happened. At that point, any need for the testicles beyond reproduction has finished.

25 is a good minimum age to make this life long choice.

Thirteen would be a much better age to make this life long choice for those with extenuating circumstances such as xy-pais, xxy, and other circumstances, etc.

Fifteen for those xx persons who want to become male.

Seventeen for those xy persons who simply want to be female.

Medical reasons for castrating a guy at a young age, well there's a few I suppose, torsion, cancer of the testes, or some type of major damage to them.

But, would you consider a guy having gender identity disorder as a medically viable reason for castration?

It should be a personal choice, not dictated by law. There are too many needless laws know taking away our freedoms.

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