Interest in Castration: Origins & Outcomes

We invite you to participate in a survey of the Eunuch Archive community. The survey is for eunuchs, eunuch wannabes, and any and all others who may have interests in castration, whether as fantasy or academic interest. After taking the survey yourself, please ask others interested in castration to also take it.

This survey follows two previous surveys posted on the Eunuch Archive in 2005 (922 participants) and 2008 (3086 participants). The results of those studies have been published in a series of scientific papers, and we would be happy to send copies of those papers to anyone who requests them. I will be posting a list of the papers and how to access them soon.

This survey will take approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. Most of the questions require only checking the appropriate box, however some questions are open-ended and ask for a brief written response. Some of you may even want to give longer responses on one or two questions (and the response boxes will expand to any length you care to write).

One of the two researchers, Dr. Thomas Johnson, is a member of the Eunuch Archive Board. Tom is a retired professor of Medical Anthropology from California State University, Chico.

Because of the personal nature of the questions we are asking, it is very important that everyone understand their answers will be completely confidential. At no time will we ask for your name or email address. Your confidentiality will be completely protected and nothing you say or write will be traceable to you individually. This survey has been approved by the Human Subjects Research Board of the California State University, Chico in advance of posting on the Survey Monkey website. Before starting the questionnaire, you will be asked to read about this project and give your consent to participate in the study. Participation in this survey is on voluntary basis.

You can access the survey directly at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FLRFNLH

The first two surveys of the Eunuch Archive community have resulted in a series of academic papers that have raised awareness of eunuch-related issues in the medical and psychological communities. There are more counselors willing to work with those who are interested in castration and an increasing number of surgeons are willing to provide care to those with castration interest.

We hope that papers based on the Third Survey (which is currently open to participants) will provide even more visibility for those who are interested in castration.

Below is a listing of papers published to date. I will be happy to send PDF copies to anyone who requests them. To simplify the process, each essay is numbered in square brackets after its listing.

If you would like copies, send me a request that includes an email address that will accept PDF attachments and the number(s) for the essays that you want. While I will be happy to send all 23 articles, please request them in batches of no more than five at a time. I hope that you will be willing to comment on the articles, either here on the Archive or in emails back to me. Your feedback is important as we move forward.

You can send your requests to:

TWJ-(at)-sonic-(dot)-net

Papers Based on Previous Eunuch Archive Surveys

First Survey (2005)

Johnson TW, Brett MA, Roberts LF, Wassersug, RJ. (2007). Eunuchs in contemporary society: Characterizing men who are voluntarily castrated. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 4:930–945. [EU-01]

Brett, MA, Roberts LF, Johnson TW, Wassersug, RJ. (2007). Eunuchs in contemporary society: Expectations, consequences and adjustments to castration. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 4:946–955. [EU-02]

Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2007). Modern-day eunuchs: Motivations for and consequences of contemporary castration. Perspectives in Biology & Medicine; 50:544–56. [EU-03]

Roberts LF, Brett MA, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2008). A passion for castration: Characterizing men who are fascinated with castration, but have not been castrated. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 5:1169–1680. [EU-04]

Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ, Roberts LF, Sutherland MB, First MB. (2010). Desire for castration is not a Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID): A response. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 7:852-855. [EU-05]

Second Survey (2008)

Wassersug RJ, Lieberman T. (2010). Contemporary castration: why the modern day eunuch remains invisible. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20719851) BMJ;341:c4509. [EU-06]

Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2010). Gender identity disorder outside the binary: When gender identity disorder-not otherwise specified is not good enough. Archives of Sexual Behavior; 39:597-598. [EU-07]

Vale K, Johnson TW, Jansen MS, Lawson BK, Lieberman T, Willett KH, Wassersug RJ. (2010). The development of standards of care for individuals with a male-to-eunuch gender identity disorder. International Journal of Transgenderism; 12:40-51. [EU-08]

Wibowo E, Wassersug R, Warkentin K, Walker L, Robinson J, Brotto L, Johnson TW. (2012). Impact of androgen deprivation therapy on sexual function: A response. Asian Journal of Andrology; 14:793-794. [EU-09]

Wassersug RJ (http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user ... =en&oi=sra), McKenna E, Lieberman T. (2012). Eunuch as a gender identity after castration (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... 012.681178). Journal of Gender Studies; 21:253-270. [EU-10]

Johnson, TW. (2012). Castrati Singers – All for fame: A commentary. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 10:618-619. [EU-11]

Treleaven MMM, Jackowich RA, Roberts L, Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2013). Castration and personality: Correlation of androgen deprivation and estrogen supplementation with the big five fFactor personality traits of adult males. Journal of Research in Personality; 47:376-379. [EU-12]

Jackowich RA, Johnson TW, Brassard, P, Bélanger M, Wassersug R. (2013) Age of sex reassignment surgery for male-to-female transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior; 43:13-15. [EU-13]

Vale K, Siemens I, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2013). Religiosity, childhood abuse, and other risk factors correlated with voluntary genital ablation. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science; 45:230-237. [EU-14]

Johnson TW, Irwig MJ. (2014). What's missing? The hidden world of castration and testicular self-injury among eunuchs. Nature Reviews / Urology; 11:297-300. [EU-15]

Jackowich RA, Vale R, Vale K, Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2014). Voluntary genital ablations: Contrasting the cutters and their clients. Sexual Medicine; 2:121-132. [EU-16]

Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2015). Castration. The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, ed. by P.Whelehan & A.Bolin. New York: John Wiley & Sons. [EU-17]

Johnson, TW, Wassersug RJ. (2015). Eunuchs. The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, ed. by P.Whelehan & A.Bolin. New York: John Wiley & Sons. [EU-18]

Handy AB, Wassersug RJ, Ketter JTJ, Johnson TW. (2015). The sexual side of castration narratives: Fiction written by and for eunuchs and eunuch "wannabes". The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality; 24:151-159. [EU-19]

Handy AB, Johnson TW. (2015). Eunuchs online. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly; 2:710-716. [EU-20]

Wibowo E, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2016). Infertility, impotence, and emasculation – Psychosocial contexts for abandoning reproduction. Asian Journal of Andrology; 18:403-408. [EU-21]

Handy AB, Jackowich BA, Wibowo E, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2016). Gender preference in the sexual attractions, fantasies, and relationships of voluntarily castrated men. Sexual Medicine; 4:e51-e59. [EU-22]

Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2016). Recognition of gender variants outside the binary in WPATH Standards of Care, Version 7.0. International Journal of Transgenderism; 17:1-3. [EU-23]

Filled it out completely and am glad it exists and hope it is helpful for understanding our community.

I Likewise

I did it as well however some of the questions I think they may be well off the scent with.

Done. In the education questions, there needs to be an option for a two year, Associate degree.

Completed the survey.

Completed the survey.

Took the survey

Completed the survey. I was disappointed in the narrow focus of the questions. Did not apply much to my castration and thought of peneoctomy.