MichaelMN's thread reinforces

my curiosity about location.

This new thread was started

because the fortitude of his

resolve appears beyond these

considerations.

Perhaps some surveys on the issue

would be useful. (Rural Vs Urban)

I would not know how to phrase

them, or how close would be too

close. Maybe it is not an issue.

If a person were living in a rural

community as a straight single male,

and for whatever reason, chose to be

castrated, and that choice somehow

became known by the community,

wouldn't that potentially set the stage

for a difficult situation.

Wouldn't it be beneficial to create

a medical excuse for the choice.

If the issues of the EA become the

basis for a life style, rather than

a medical necessity, I would expect

violence to begin or increase toward

the people involved.

It is to be expected that, just as gay

people are identified with transvestites,

transexuals, gardening, and any thing

else that happens along, they can

expect to be associated with castration

and penectomy as a life style.

Would it be wrong to be more

concerned about a straight person

making such changes, than a gay

person, on the presumption that

gay people may be less optimistic

about societal integration.

Considering the threat people feel

from homosexuality, I can imagine

an elective eunoch as the object

of similar social problems.

The idea that someone who has

sex drive issues in a rural commuity

gets chemically castrated and this

solves their problems seems too

optimistic. It may ameliorate their

internal turmoil and deliver them

into a social turmoil.