Hi guys

I've been lurking around here for quite some time now, off an on.

Lately, my fetish has been getting stronger and sometimes I think I must be crazy.

Wishing to be castrated? A healthy, straight guy? WTF?

I just wonder where this idea comes from.

Some kind of guilt? Something that happened when I was really small and I don't remember?

Have I got a hidden, secret wish to be female?

Hey @Wannabe2,

First welcome out of lurking shadows.

If castration is a fetish, enjoy the fiction archives. It is full of castration fetishes.

Most people on here are a real desire to either be castrated, to have sex with eunuchs or to support those that want to be castrated. If your fetish becomes a genuine castration desire, everyone here will support you.

TMFL

Don t worry, men getting interested in castration as a sexual turn on is very common, especially if you grew up around livestock getting castrated in agriculture.

Also, History is full of normal straight men castrating each other after wars, as slaves, to dominate and subjugate other men, as punishment, male birth control, religions, rituals, and countless other reasons. Its only in recent civilization that men s desire to castrate has been stifled.

Getting stronger cravings for castration in men s 50s and 60s is very common also. Those are likely the ages where men finally do get castrated voluntarily the most. After enjoying decades of great sex, and being done needing sperm to impregnate, finally make castration less frightening and less impossible to think of than for younger men who are planning to impregnate and looking forward to decades of great sex ahead of them.

Lots of eunuchs take testosterone after castration to remain as masculine and sexually active as possible or at self controlled amounts to control their libido and masculinity. Most who only enjoy castration don t wish to be females or have female bodies. Castration is a small part of what a male to female interested person is interested in or thinks about as their ultimate goals.

Both circumcised and uncircumcised men can desire castration. So getting circumcised as a newborn or kid might or might not be related.

Mens desire to be rid of the constant male desires and needs for endless sex and for ever increasing, risky, new, novel, and wilder sexual stimulation and experiences can be a motivation for castration. A desire to avoid sleeping around and harming wives, children, jobs, and lives can motivate castration desires and interest. Avoiding criminal sexual desires by voluntary castration also motivates some men s desires. So can desires to avoid marriage, children, sex, and other male hassles in life. These can motivate some men to look into castration.

Most men into castration usually do wonder and ask themselves why they enjoy these ideas so much ? Most never really find any root cause or reasons. They just relax and enjoy it as a harmless fantasy. Or they investigate how serious they are about getting themselves castrated. And how it would affect their body, mind, sexuality, and life. And then decide if castration is right for them to get or not.

Most fans never get castrated. They just enjoy the pleasures these ideas give them.

Hi @TopManFL

Thanks for the pointer for 'fiction archives'. I was wondering where the stories went since the last time I've read some of them. Must have been longer ago than I thought.

Hi @cutnbulls2ox

Thanks for this overview. There's a few things you mention that resonate very well with me, e.g. '

cutnbulls2ox (imported) wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 1:55 am less frightening and less impossible to think of

', 'to be rid of ... desires', 'avoid sleeping around'.

Somehow, I'm in a process of self-discovery, again. That's fun sometimes and often astonishing. Let's see where this leads.

Rather than a fetish (technically, a paraphilia), some find that their desire to be castrated is gender euphoria, the flip side of gender dysphoria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria

This leads to the conclusion that those who wish to be castrated may have a nonbinary transgender identity. The Genderbread Person v4.0 Poster provides some ideas about how to break down gender into its parts:

https://www.genderbread.org/resource/ge ... 4-0-poster

In particular, gender identity can be described using two independent dimensions: femininity and masculinity. This means that one can want to reduce masculinity (transitioning towards agender) without increasing femininity. This is how I think of Male-to-Eunuch transition.

Thanks catoboros for the Genderbread Person v4.0 poster.

This is how I came to think of things some years ago. In the past binary world you were classified as either one thing or the other - male or female, gay or straight and the gender clinics in the UK worked along some of these fixed lines. I felt I was being understood to a point, and then pushed into a standard box.

For me it helps to visualise one of those computer software colour adjustment windows. You move the mouse around and the colour changes by small amounts. You can go from black to white and every other possible colour in between. There is more to this image though. There is another adjustment for brightness which equates (in my mind) to the desire/urge to make those changes.

From this I see a world of infinite possibility in the human form. You are never going to fit into one group exactly, but it is comforting to find acceptance for those many combinations.

I like this site - I have read many messages from those who think in this multi-option way. Life is frustratingly complex and beautiful at the same time.

Hi @catoboros

Thanks for the idea of 'gender euphoria'. Hadn't heard this before.

I'll have to think about the genderbread person for a while. Don't see myself in this picture yet.