Hi, I'm new here. I've been fascinated by castration for some time, I found EA a couple weeks ago and have been lurking.

I'm 48, married... Very happily to a wonderful and supportive woman who I can talk to about ANYTHING, I guess I'm lucky in that department. I have a strong libido, and have 2 teen children. We're done making children.

I had a vasectomy 10 years ago. The surgeon was concerned and asking questions, "why would you want to be fixed at such a young age?" I had very good answers for him that need not be talked about here, right now. I had my vasectomy soon after. My point is, I understand why surgeons ask questions and I understand that they may refuse to make changes to a person that they may regret in the future.

I have some questions for the people here. And, thank you in advance for your answers.

1) if a 50 year old man went to his PCP, a therapist, a urologist and then a surgeon with his supportive bride at his side and discussed his desire for voluntary castration with them, would the 50 year old man be viewed differently than a 22 year old single man who desires castration and who has the prime of his life in front of him? I apologize if that sounds arrogant, I don't mean it to be.

2) if one of the reasons for voluntary castration is to cut the sex drive, and you were on HRT afterwards to combat the side effects, wouldn't the HRT negate that reason for the castration in the first place?

3) has anyone read "Castration" by Victor Cheney? Available at Amazon, is it worth it?

4) are there other middle aged straight married men like me here, who have been voluntarily castrated, and who have supportive wives?

I would be happy to talk to anyone about this subject, and read your posts. I'd especially like to hear from married straight men who have gone through with the change, and hear from supportive women.

Thank you for your time!

Hi. I'm not straight, but I wanted to let you know that my age definitely made a difference when I asked my urologist to be castrated. He was very reluctant to castrate, despite my complaints of pain, me for two reasons: the permanence of sterility and the lack of testosterone. I already had near-castrate levels of testosterone and was already taking testosterone replacement, so we agreed that wasn't an issue. I told him that I was 50 and married to a man my age, and there was NO way we ever wanted to bear children by any method. That seemed to seal the deal.

From my experience I doubt that a run of the mill urologist would remove healthy tissue. As you probably are aware of there are at least 10 or more specialisst in the United States that will do an elective orchiecetomy, some needing additional recommendations from a therapist, some not. It may be possible to get a prescription from a local urologist or endocrinologist for chemical castration. If by chance your testes happen to be "damaged" non-functional the probability is much greater. It is difficult to broach the subject to a urologist especially just to find out over the phone if they ever do elective orchiecetomy. It took me many visits with many different urologist, plastic surgeons and endocrinologist to finally succeed over a three year prior. This was only after doing much harm by alcohol and calcium chloride injections.

I am nullified and, although I am not married anymore, other women who knows about me have no problem. I also have not encountered any man, yet, who treats me badly or joke about my nullification. Some are curious to know how I'm able to deal with my nullification regarding sexual frustration. I just explain to them that I don't experience sexual frustration...which is true, by the way. Cape Town is much like San Fransisco. People stay out of each other's business and pretty anything goes. Actually, most of South Africa is like this...except maybe Bloemfontein or some other orthodox Afrikaner community...like those American rednecks or Texans.

My answers:

1. I believe the majority of urologists would not consider age a factor. You might find one or two who would take that into consideration. I doubt that taking your supportive wife along to the appointment would sway any therapist or doctor. Most would view your desire to be castrated odd or strange. Most medical practitioners have taken the Hippocratic oath, which generally means they will not do anything not medically necessary.

2. Castration to reduce sex drive and adding HRT afterwards. You need to understand that hormones vary greatly from one man to another, however, if you get castrated to reduce your sex drive, you're probably going to the extreme. You see, some testosterone is necessary to prevent osteoporosis and severe depression. I wanted to be castrated, not to reduce my sex drive, but because I needed to be, let's leave it at that. However, once castrated I nose dived into severe depression, a result of hormone deprivation, adding back just a small amount of testosterone helped relieve my depression and helped to prevent osteoporosis. So do not get castrated to reduce your sex drive, castration will all but eliminate it in most men, not all, but most. You might ask your urologist for Depo-provera to reduce your sex drive, which is essentially chemical castration. http://www.drugs.com/answers/when-a-man ... 90705.html It will/can reduce your libido, but not eliminate it.

3. Victor Cheney's book about Castration is probably not worth the money. I bought it, read it, but you can find more info on the internet about castration without spending your money on this book. My opinion, others may differ obviously.

4. I am 58, have a supportive wife, however, I did not include her in my castration quest. To be honest, I made up some story, telling her that I had problems with my testicles. I cannot remember exactly what I told her. I felt guilty doing it, but she would not have accepted me just telling her that I wanted to be castrated. However, she is supportive. She also had a hysterectomy years ago, which lowered her sex drive. When I became a nullo, she really didn't care, but that's another story. She doesn't miss anything because it's no longer important to her at her age.

Answers to your questions (from a guy who has had his penis and testicles removed voluntarily):

1. Possibly, but it would likely be easier for you to travel to Dr. Arnkoff in Michigan and have him remove your testicles. He will do it with only your informed consent, meaning, he will advise you of the side effects, potential complications and have you sign a document that you understand and you request this procedure be done. After you sign that document, he'll cut your balls off.

2. In your situation, I'd try chemical castration first. It will lower your testosterone level and let you try out what life will be like for you before you do anything irreversible to your body. After castration, you may wish to have a small amount of testosterone just to keep the problematic side effects at bay, assuming it doesn't simultaneously cause you to have too high of a libido. If you were doing it simply for aesthetic purposes as I have (you simply didn't want your balls) there would be no point to chemical castration.

3. Victor Cheney is widely considered a hack by those of us who have been at Eunuch Archive for a long time. I wouldn't bother with his book. There is much better information available on this site.

4. I know they exist, but I am not one. I hope such a person or couple reach out to you.

--LT

Archive member for 20 years, eunuch for 10, nullo for 1.

Saco04072 (imported) wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:30 am 1) if a 50 year old man went to his PCP, a therapist, a urologist and then a surgeon with his supportive bride at his side and discussed his desire for voluntary castration with them, would the 50 year old man be viewed differently than a 22 year old single man who desires castration and who has the prime of his life in front of him? I apologize if that sounds arrogant, I don't mean it to be.

2) if one of the reasons for voluntary castration is to cut the sex drive, and you were on HRT afterwards to combat the side effects, wouldn't the HRT negate that reason for the castration in the first place?

3) has anyone read "Castration" by Victor Cheney? Available at Amazon, is it worth it?

4) are there other middle aged straight married men like me here, who have been voluntarily castrated, and who have supportive wives?

I would be happy to talk to anyone about this subject, and read your posts. I'd especially like to hear from married straight men who have gone through with the change, and hear from supportive women.

Thank you for your time!

Hey LT...how's it hangin'?

Yeah! I agree mostly with you. The only difference with Chemical castration, IMO, is that you will still have your balls (and penis) attached so you won't get the "lost them (LT)" experience.

But it is definitely better your way just to make sure one can handle the "feeling" of being without Testosterone...and that you are pretty sure you don't want kids anymore.

Blessings to you!

Hash (imported) wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2016 4:39 am My answers:

1. I believe the majority of urologists would not consider age a factor. You might find one or two who would take that into consideration. I doubt that taking your supportive wife along to the appointment would sway any therapist or doctor. Most would view your desire to be castrated odd or strange. Most medical practitioners have taken the Hippocratic oath, which generally means they will not do anything not medically necessary...

Hi Hash, hope you are still well.

How is it going with you regarding your penectomy? Are you still happy with your decision and how's the healing coming along? Do you enjoy the smooth feeling?

Greetings...

Thank you for your responses. I think I would re-categorize lower sex drive as a benefit of castration, not a primary reason. The primary reason is that I don't want my testicles.

THANK YOU again, LT!

I was going to say that.