Sex and the Pre-pubertal Eunuch

[_g (imported)]

Side question. IF being Castrated before puberty or not having testicles at birth causes arms and legs to grow exceptionally large, Is this a trait found only in Humans or do all Mammals suffer this effect if Castrated before puberty? Do Horses or Cattle grow longer legs than those left intact? Certainly there should be animal husbandry practices that would take this into account, and be a desired goal with certain animals like horses who could cover more ground with longer legs.

There is a very good reason for castrating horse, bulls and rams. By in large one word, Aggression. And the mileage may very with Horses. Aggression is hard on the framers bottom line which is why the studs are not in the herd.

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[ZeuterMe (imported)]

I'm told that someone who knows what they're looking for can tell when a dog was neutered young, so I presume that the effect is simply easier to spot in humans because we're used to looking at how they differ, their proportions, and perhaps most critically, we don't have wildly varying breeds of humanity the way we've got such variation among dogs.

[stephaniesteve1 (imported)]

May be some one can organise a few clinical trials

[devi (imported)]

I had never heard the term "anorchia" before. As for abnormally long legs and arms, I think it develops in some individuals after the age that adolescence was supposed to have ended, due to the fact that certain hormones hadn't come into effect to halt the growth of adolescence. As for being sexual, probably testosterone diminishes the duration of the sex drive to that of a goal oriented endeavor, that is the climax, and after they have achieved that they can fall asleep then.