Hehe, on a less (http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=8039) serious note, I wanted to mention my other Great Fear of castration is that it would make me dumb. I've gotten over this fear though, because have you ever seen a man acting intelligent around nubile women? It's pretty obvious testosterone, and the male sexual response, doesn't have much to do with intelligence.

I am castrated and do not think I am any different then when I had balls. I am no smarter of dumber now. Wish I was smarter.

testosterone doesn't affect intelegence however my memory is somewhat affected by the loss of most of my testosterone production. This is something I work arround with notes and caffeene.

Phillip,

I think it's one of those buddist, middle-path, things - when my testosterone was very low (before a doctor realized I had a problem in my mid-teens) I had a lot of trouble with spatial relationships, abstract relations, and memorization of abstract processes (I was a math major).

But then I got a little help in the form of testosterone. Depending on which doctor I was seeing my testosterone would average between 110 and 3300. At 110 I was pretty smart. But at 3300 a close friend remarked that I was smarter when I my testosterone was low. I was broody at 3300. I didn't have as much interest in the finer points of math. I wanted to push heavy weights around. I had low tolerance for tedium.

The funny thing is that different feelings predominate at different testosterone levels. At 110-650 I was ripe for math. From 1150 to 1500 I was hot for sex and family and work and home repair. Above that, sex was less interesting, I was more into gladiating and empire building (just kidding), but I was more into exercise and sports.

There is a middle road where everything is perfect. It's different for different people. I guess the best way to say it is,

Your-mileage-may-vary,

DocT

When my Testosterone was low I was totaly unable to retrace my steps on a map or do anything complex. When I went on HRT my mental fog burned off! I also get interested in sex and fixing things again.

I have to agree that my memory is not as good as it was but I am still able to solve complex problems. My mind used to wander while thinking about sex. Not as much of a problem now.

Well, I'm on estrogen so maybe I don't count, but I find myself being neither smarter nor dumber than before castration.

DocT (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:36 pm I think it's one of those buddist, middle-path, things - when my testosterone was very low (before a doctor realized I had a problem in my mid-teens) I had a lot of trouble with spatial relationships, abstract relations, and memorization of abstract processes (I was a math major).

But then I got a little help in the form of testosterone. Depending on which doctor I was seeing my testosterone would average between 110 and 3300. At 110 I was pretty smart. But at 3300 a close friend remarked that I was smarter when I my testosterone was low. I was broody at 3300. I didn't have as much interest in the finer points of math. I wanted to push heavy weights around. I had low tolerance for tedium.

My doc warned me when I first initiated testosterone supplementation that it's main noticeable side effect would be improved short-term memory. Some loss of memory had been one of my symptoms of low testosterone levels. He told me not to get to acustomed to it, as his objective was to have me go back off the supplements. He was so on!

Of course and mostly for reasons of pain and discomfort, especially in one testicle, I later had them removed. The other one only wasn't a source of discomfort because it had been severely damaged as a result of a hernia - or repairing it - in which a bunch of intestine invaded my sac as a youth.