speedvogel (imported) wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:35 pm Sure there is female castration. It is called Bilateral Oophorectomy. It is almost always done in conjunction with a hysterectomy. In other words, the doctor will remove the woman's uterus and ovaries. Side effects are usually unpleasant. Many women seem to feel this will solve various problems and many doctors are too lazy to treat the real problem, so they just jerk the organs out. In a typical year over 600,000 women are castrated in the USA.

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Really? Really, is that what we do? You seem to be an expert on this. Not quite what I learned in medical school. Ovaries are always spared in a hysterectomy if they are normal and functioning. If the woman is post menapausal they are not functioning and therefore removed. In rare occasions, if there is strong familial history of ovarian cancer the doctor may allow for an elective procedure. Please don't take your frustrations with your doctors out on the rest of us with broad sweeping generalizations. Some of us are in the same boat as you. -- typed on my phone please excuse any typo's