Re: Is Being a Eunuch a Disability?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:27 pm
kristoff wrote: Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:00 pm I think eunuchism can be a precipitant of disability. For example, many folks who undergo castration (involuntary, as well as voluntarily) will experience mental distress to one extent or another. Certainly not all, but many. For most it takes the form of depression. Its severity can be tremendous (I speak from experience). Sometimes reactions can be so severe as to constitute psychosis. Sometimes psychosis precipitates the castration.
While castration may not, in and of itself be a disability (as a primary complaint, I don't believe it is), secondary or incidental to a mental health crisis, it can sometimes be a disability, even a very severe disability.
Further, for comment by others, would chronic orchalgia constitute a disability?
You answered this question better then any of us. I think the answer to both is yes. Its a disability if "it disables you" So for a guy with chronic pains that functions 100% in day to day life? Not disabled. If a person is castrated in the war and has massive depression over it and can not function? Disabled. And btw using my own dumb analogy the women with the Hysterectomy that is depressed and out of her head? Yes, she IS disabled.
I was "rong!"
