Orchitectomy on Old people

[ducker005 (imported)]

I was really surprised when I overheard the next patients medical history in my dents' office.

The old man, obviously over 70's said that he had the testicles removed while he was crossing his legs, so calm that one would think he was talking about having a tooth pulled out or hair cut.

I was really surprised. Is it normal for people to have their testicles removed after some age?

[talula]

Only if Paolo gets ahold of you.

[C&TL2745 (imported)]

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Is it normal for people to have their testicles removed after some age?

Only for men.

But seriously, the older someone gets, the more likely he is to get cancer, and the gentleman may have had testicular or prostate cancer, the treatment for each of which is sometimes castration. Why he was so matter-of-fact about it is anybody's guess.

Sandi

[ducker005 (imported)]

Well, I adjust wanted to learn the motive behind this. Is it something that you can chose when you are wealthy enough to benefit from the fact that eunuchs live longer.

As I have said before there were other medical conditions but the man never talked about cancer, or prostate related problems.

It was just like I got them removed because they don't have a use anymore

[considering (imported)]

I was in my mid sixties when I had mine removed. At the time I was still fully functional, could easily get an erection, produce semen although what the count might have been is questionable. It was something I'd wanted to do for some little while and finally did. If there's one thing for doing at an advanced age, you're absolutely certain this is something you want to do. No spur of the moment whacking them off, no doing it to please another, it's your decision and, I found, surgeons respected that more than had I been substantially younger. I don't know that they had no further use for them, just nothing I could think of. I had a plastic surgeon remove the scrotal sac so now it's just a flat space. Thought about getting a tat there but then thought...why? So few would see it. Rather get the penis done instead. And I should imagine that's another thing that older men seldom do.

[jako9999 (imported)]

I think it more strange that someone in their 20's would go ahead with it its to young to decide, after all you may still want kids and don't even know it then. Mine went at 44 after 3 children and being sterile for 8 years yes I wanted it much younger but waited till I knew they were of no further use that was two years ago now and no regrets.

[kristoff]

I think it more strange that someone in their 20's would go ahead with it its to young to decide, after all you may still want kids and don't even know it then. Mine went at 44 after 3 children and being sterile for 8 years yes I wanted it much younger but waited till I knew they were of no further use that was two years ago now and no regrets.

This provokes a debate we had on here years ago. What is the minimum age someone should be before castration? Should there be any age requirements?

I'll start a new thread with these questions. Feel free to discuss it at length. It is good to talk about stuff like this.

[JesusA (imported)]

Kristoff neglected to note the title or location of his new thread:

Minimum Age for Castration?

http://www.eunuch.org/forums/showthread ... Castration

Back on topic for this thread:

About one in 24 men in North America will be castrated as treatment for prostate cancer. The ratio is currently about one-quarter surgically and three-quarters chemically. There may, though, be a push to do more surgery. It's both much cheaper and recent studies have found that the chemicals cause an increased rate of heart attack and stroke that the surgery does not.

[considering (imported)]

I would never accept chemicals when an orchiectomy is offered. Either way, the result is the same so what we're discussing is the vanity or the ability to accept what some might see as an "incomplete" male body. I wish I could cite the specific study but it says very clearly that vanity and a man's sense of his sexuality has killed more men than are cured of prostate cancer, testicular cancer and penile cancer. How many man do each of us know who, if a prostate exam was suggested, would flat out refuse as it would "violate them"? Sadly, the number is quite high. I asked my personal physician who routinely does a digital prostate exam if he had any male patients that declined. His answer surprized me; The said that, yep, he had former patients who had refused and that's why they were former patients. He did not want the responsibility of allowing them, some of whom from blood work ups he knew to be borderline cancer patients, to continue as his patients "against medical advice". I don't know the ethics of this but I do understand his reasoning.

[nvrgag44 (imported)]

I've often said I'd readily be castrated if the prostate cancer returned. I'd hope to have the scrotum removed also, preferably by a skilled plastic surgeon. I think when it's done right it's beautiful as well as erotic.