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Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:04 pm
by Begoneboy (imported)
I also found the survey to be rather pointed toward creating a stereotype description of eunuch. The vast majority of the questionnaire assumes that there is some form of sexual arousal in virtually every aspect of a persons life which could not be further than the truth.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:17 pm
by Uncle Flo (imported)
I suggest that the author will be able to discover his own errors in this survey either errors in the concept or errors in his construction of it. If we give him a chance he will learn as much, or even more, about authoring surveys as he will about eunuchs. If he learns about either subject we may have a valuable ally to help accustom the medical world to us and our needs. --FLO--
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 7:21 pm
by tugon (imported)
As a 20 year eunuch I did not think much pertained to me. The questions to me were more directed to wannabes and recent eunuchs. I am curious to read if there is any new information gathered about the eunuch community.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:10 pm
by Losethem (imported)
I may have been brash before. OK, yes I was. The issue I have with it is I do not see how this survey learns anything about us as a community. Jesus has authentically studied us for decades. I'm surprised he didn't flush this one before it got off the ground in it's present form, by telling the author that he's going to get an incredibly negative reaction from us.
Looking a bit more objectively, this survey is light years BEHIND where the eunuch and nullo community is at the moment. It may as well have been put together and offered up in the early 90's. I can handle a difficult truth, but this came off to me as nothing but wanting to know about our sex lives and fantasies. If the intent is to help our community or learn about it in authentic ways, this survey is far off the mark, and entirely too intrusive into things which don't matter.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:25 am
by Zebedeee (imported)
Having decided that I may have been a bit hasty to begin with, I took another look and started the survey. Unfortunately I found the questions about arousal and fantasy to be mostly irrelevant and in some cases distasteful, and I’m sorry but I gave up quite quickly as I was feeling a little creeped out by it.
For me castration is about my gender identity and has nothing whatsoever to do with fantasy.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:07 am
by sakebigoe (imported)
This is an interesting study and I would love to see where its results lead. Hopefully it will allow those of us who are either currently eunuchs or seeking to become eunuchs to explore our motivations and desires in a more healthy and understanding environment. while this community is one of the most insightful I have come across it could be helpful to receive an outside perspective.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 6:32 am
by nutless1 (imported)
I took the survey and now understand the "why" things were done for the survey.
Being a eunuch is more spiritual than sexual for me, so it was easy to rate the sexual parts of the survey lower given the scale range.
I believe it is important to gather information from we eunuchs to better understand and serve our community, so I encourage others to participate in this surveey and other surveys too.
sexualitylab (imported) wrote: Sun Mar 04, 2018 11:39 am
This is Kevin Hsu, the PhD student conducting the research survey of eunuchs and eunuch wannabes that was graciously posted in this thread. First, I want to thank every person who has taken the survey so far. I know that it is not a short or easy survey and that not all of the questions (perhaps any) apply to your individual experiences. And so I really, really appreciate your time and help.
I would like to respond to some of the comments in this thread, because I think it is important that researchers be open and receptive to feedback and criticism. I also think it is important that they be transparent with participants, so I want to do my best to show that I take seriously both the positive takeaways and the concerns that have been raised.
tugon, daifu-orchid, and IncestCirc - thank you for participating and for finding the survey to be enlightening and potentially helpful for understanding the eunuch community among medical professionals, the greater public, etc.
Freddyjack, Oyktiro1, Ernie of Maine - thank you for your feedback. Yes, I understand that castration or being castrated is not sexual for everyone. I am sorry to hear that it felt that the survey assumed this. That was not my intention. I think it is extremely important that I do have responses from persons like yourselves, who do not find castration or being castrated to be sexual. I think we want to know whether any sexual aspects of being a eunuch or eunuch wannabe are related to aspects of identity and personality, and we want to have a wide range of individuals with differing feelings (for example, from those who do not find it sexual at all, to those who find it extremely sexual). There is a lot of diversity in sexuality, including among the eunuch/eunuch wannabe community. I would like to capture that diversity in my survey results, so I hope that you will consider completing the survey even if it means putting "0" or "no" to many questions about your sexual interests related to castration or being castrated.
shydudexx - I'm sorry if some of the instructions were not clear. You are able, as IncestCirc and fhunter pointed out, to put 0 for those slider questions. You just click on the slider, and it will drop onto wherever you want. I also want to point out that I ask about sexual interests that some may find objectionable simply for comparison. I do not assume that everyone has such interests. But I would like to assess a broader range of interests than what most surveys of sexuality typically ask. Our lab asks the same questions of other populations that have been understudied or misunderstood with respect to their sexuality, which I will address next.
Zebedee - I apologize about the title. I am also studying another population/community - adult baby/diaper lovers - as part of my dissertation. I am studying them separately, without any assumption that they may be similar except in the fact that both involve online communities. The reason they are together in the same title is because both involve surveys, and I submitted the proposal for both together as one "project" to our ethics review board (IRB) to expedite the review process. It is required that we use the title of the project submitted to the IRB. You are seeing an entirely different survey than the one that the adult/baby diaper community will see. Again, I'm sorry for the confusion.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:00 pm
by Nidaho Rachel (imported)
It was a Interesting survey to take! Hopefully we will be able to view the results when they come back.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 3:11 pm
by experiment (imported)
I did find the survey interesting. it made me think a lot about my own behavior and where I am going with it.
Re: Important New Survey
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 7:32 pm
by JesusA (imported)
The Education of Kevin Hsu
some new, young academic who will devote time and energy to research and writing about the voluntary eunuch community. A lot has been accomplished in the past few years, but there is still much more that needs to be done.
At 75, Im beginning to wind down my own research and writing. I lost my entire set of books and notes in the Wine Country Fire. I will need to start over from scratch for any documentation toward more publications. The outline, notes, and all reference materials for the book that I had promised are now part of a large ash heap and I dont have enough years left to recreate them. (My library had over 6000 volumes and Im now up to about two dozen.)
Kevin is young, bright, and enthusiastic. He is planning to devote his career to research and writing about sex and gender issues. The survey is his first attempt to understand the eunuch community and a number of you have pointed out flaws that he needs to be aware of. Its a learning experience for him and all of your responses to his survey will help to guide his future work. We want him to continue to consider eunuchs as part of his field of interest.
Answer honestly and you will help Kevin to focus better on what is most important. You want to help him to understand what needs to be done next.