Sparkey49,

Yes, having you trying to hide it and seeming embarrassed to be a eunuch would be much more upsetting and disturbing to your grandsons than bravely admitting that castration is part of life for some men and presenting your being a eunuch as ok and nothing to be ashamed or fearful about. I had an uncle who lost a limb in an accident when he was young. It scared all of us as kids but we got used to it and we saw it as reality that some people do get hurt so bad that drs can t put them back together again. It made us all think and act more carefully ourselves. But hiding his missing limb would have been impossible to do. But he d take off his artificial limb in front of us and we all got used to it and we respected him for not being embarrassed or trying to hide it from us kids.

Traveling for work, I stopped at a bookstore. I, of course, headed straight to the sex books section for some inspirational on the road reading materials.

A few minutes later, two high school aged jock types joined me in looking through the different sex themed books. They were talking and showing each other stuff in the books. I ignored them as being jail bait and too young to chase.

One guy points to a page in a book and tells his friend, " This is what ( some friend s name) wants to get done ! Castration ! He says he wants to get his balls cut off as soon as he turns 18 and he doesn t need his parents permission to get it done. What do you think ? You want to get cut like this ? "

His friends says, " I don t know, I like my balls a lot."

The first guy says, " I think its cool ! He really wants to do it ! I m thinking about it ! "

I m debating whether to butt in and say anything, explain what happens when a man is castrated. I decide its none of my business and I should keep out of it. They have mandatory health and sex ed classes in school so they should already know what a man gives up in getting castrated, especially at 18 years old and castrated at the peak of his sexual abilities.

I ask them what are the best gay bars in that area. The one talking about castration says, " we re not old enough to drink. We can t go to any bars. We don t know anything about them. "

I m thinking, too young to drink but talking about castration. How does that make any sense ? But I just said ok and kept reading as they looked at book after book and talking.

Young guys do talk about castration more than people think they do. These guys friend was already eagerly planning his castration. So us grown men need to decide if we speak up and talk to them about it openly or don t we ?

When I was growing up it was a very open family and we talked about anything nothing was taboo my folks thought it was better to get information at home than misinformation wherever. My wife and I raised our kids that way and it will continue with our grandkids (age appropriate of course). I knew about castrations since a very early age from the time I was old enough to carry the jewels bucket(the bucket the balls were put in during castrating calves). Our daughter carried the bucket at 5 or 6 taking turns with her cousins. Kids will get answers somewhere better to have the discussion where there is constructive input!

Paolo wrote: Sat Jun 30, 2018 7:48 pm Now, imagine my shock when I find out that the "runt" of this litter wants to know about gay sex, and that his friend B. wants to try it with him, although he declares that he is totally straight. Well, let's give him 95%, OK? But I had to swear that I would never tell their parents about THAT part of the talk! Then it's off to buy a carton of condoms. Another dirty secret. As it turned out, they'd already tried anal with Mr. 95 attempting to top Runt, and failing. I had to makes sketches. It wasn't that good... so Runt gets online and goes to X-Tube... I nearly fainted.

Paolo it's remarkable that the boys were that honest with you especially the runt considering, how shall I put this, his position. More than once I've had boys ask me to buy them condoms but they're always quick to add that it isn't for anything gay. Nick claimed that he just wanted to see if his dick was big enough to fit into one without it falling off. The very next time I saw him he proudly reported that he was large enough!

My Godson's mother: "Where did this BOX of condoms come from?!" (When cleaning out his room)

Me: Making a quiet exit out the front door...