You really have to consider some health aspects. Walking around with a scrotum full of dead tissue sounds like a great way to get an infection and (Spellxing?) Gangreen. EIther of those can kill you. I can't imagine this not causing you pain on a level you can't quite imagine.

Second the issue of the cords full of really trauma filled nerves seems to scream for long term chronic pain. I've had to deal with Orchialgia and thats a great way to ruin your day every day. Driving, sleeping etc? All a pain horror show. You really need to ponder some better solutions to your problem. Why do you find it so important to remove your testicles? Have you really tried living without Testosterone for any length of time? Its not just about sex drive. If you really need to control your sex drive what other schemes have you looked at? Are you talking to a therapist? Are you TS?

Self castration (A really BAD idea)

I guess I wasn't entirely clear about my post. The technique I described is not something that I propose to do; it is what I DID a couple of years ago. I have no problem controlling sex drive because I have none - my T levels are consistently in low double digits. And, no I have no chronic pain or any other undesirable after effects. The "dead tissue" was absorbed back into the body, just as it is in the case of sheep castrated using the identical process - cutting off the blood to the testes until they die, while the nerves are completely sensation-free downstream of the clamping. Since my objective was to eliminate libido, not achieve a smooth appearance, the small (grape-sized) material remaining is of little consequence to me.

As to alternatives - I tried chemical control for a while (Spironolactone) but the expense and side effects argued against that as a permanent solution. And while I heartily agree that self castration is far from an optimal fix (no pun intended), as the vast majority of posts on this archive demonstrate, until castration is made available as a relatively inexpensive and value-neutral procedure, DYI is going to remain the only option for many.

There is an interesting statement on BMEzine that Burdizzo castration is safer than surgical castration.

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Burdizzo

I don't see the source of origin of this data unfortunately.

This BME article seems to have changed since the last time I saw it. --FLO--

The advantage of the Burdizzo is that you don't cut right through the skin, which means that there is far far less chance of introducing infection. It does not cut the cords either, it crushes them. This means the blood vessels don't need to be tied off as they 'tissue up'.

I have read warnings that things can go wrong with this method (ie. previous posts in this thread) but I must have missed the actual reports. The main down side as far as I can see is that it isn't a sure fire method, but there are plenty of people who claim to have used the method successfully. The trouble is that until a proper medical study is conducted we have no statistics to look at.

Riven (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:08 am The advantage of the Burdizzo is that you don't cut right through the skin, which means that there is far far less chance of introducing infection. It does not cut the cords either, it crushes them. This means the blood vessels don't need to be tied off as they 'tissue up'.

I have read warnings that things can go wrong with this method (ie. previous posts in this thread) but I must have missed the actual reports. The main down side as far as I can see is that it isn't a sure fire method, but there are plenty of people who claim to have used the method successfully. The trouble is that until a proper medical study is conducted we have no statistics to look at.

Burdizzo is designed for one type of sack. The sack of an animal is different then human. You cannot control how much force you use with a burdizzo. It is fixed force. Either open or closed fully. Cutting you sack open in a human is far different then an animal. If you ever felt the sack of an animal you would notice the big difference in texture and thickness.

You say "

Riven (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:08 am but there are plenty of people who claim to have used the method successfully

" That would imply that many did not use this method successfully. Big difference from one that "claim's" they had no problems. In reality do you think most would post that they "DID" have problems.

a hospital in southafrica has used a burdizzo on 50 men with 2 failures so far

they redid those to complete success

more testing is being conducted

more results later

Self castration (A really BAD idea)

There are risk with just about anything you do. All I can say is the day I cut my guys off was one of the best days of my life. I had a qualified friend that did most of the work, but when he handed me the scissors and said cut here it was one of the liberating things I have ever done.

Hy bobbie! i dont believe, that our sack is so much different than this of a animal. i have some sacks of my rams cutted off and there are also some layers of tissue, the cords and two thick eggs, much more greater than my owns, haha, thats the biggest differenc: their weigth and greathness, what huge balls has such a ramm!!! and so his sack is bigger and hangs much lower than my own...

We men are over 98% mammals, only a little much more brain....

halfcock (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:15 am Hy bobbie! i dont believe, that our sack is so much different than this of a animal. i have some sacks of my rams cutted off and there are also some layers of tissue, the cords and two thick eggs, much more greater than my owns, haha, thats the biggest differenc: their weigth and greathness, what huge balls has such a ramm!!! and so his sack is bigger and hangs much lower than my own...

We men are over 98% mammals, only a little much more brain....

Are you saying that there is a difference between the rams sack and balls then a humans? If so that is my point there is a difference. They are different and will be effected different with the clamp.