Some of us here, who are "voluntary eunuchs" have studied biology and/or medicine enough to have a rather clear sense of the nature of biological diversity (for those who prefer jargon, independent assortment of genotypic and phenotypic traits), may be unwilling to predict the results for any particular person following orchiectomy.

Because I have what I guess is a decent grasp of biology, I only describe what happened to me, and never intend to suggest that anyone else will have similar results. For me, the main result is terribly simple. I have managed to stay alive, plausibly because of surgeries done to minimize cancer risk for a genetic condition I share with my late dad and brother, which surgeries have apparently allowed me to be alive at an age significantly greater than their ages when they died.

Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is one of the rare (supposedly in the range of 1 in 20,000 people) genetic conditions which, if not sufficiently treated medically, tends to result in death at a comparatively young age (the average age of death in the medical literature, without sufficient surgical intervention, seems to be around 42 years).

There is a fair chance that no other Eunuch Archive member has the FAP gene, and therefore, my results may, in at least one way, be unique.

I have long viewed life as being the having of problems, such that, if I do not have problems, I am dead.

The news may be: I am having problems, therefore, I am alive.

My purely-hormone-driven biological demand for orgasms when awake, or if ignored while awake, then while asleep, faded away quickly, as I recall, within a week or so of the orchiectomy. The interference with clarity of thought that accompanied testosterone faded away in about the same amount of time.

Absent my sense of cancer risk, I would have lived with hormone-mandated orgasms and with testosterone brain fog for the rest of my life (which I have no clue how would have happened).

I figured that, dead from cancer, I would have no choice regarding sex. Without testicles and alive, I would have much more choice than if dead.

Simple choice for me.

I decided to do whatever I thought might conserve my life. Does that make me into a pro-life conservative?

You do not have a genetic condition which can take out the making of a tumor suppressor protein? Your results may be very different than mine.

I do not base my life on outcome-based goals. Too many aspects of life which are outside my practical control affect outcomes. I base my life upon the effort I can make, and nothing more.

I'm 28yo and it has been 5 months since I was castrated and i'm not on any male hormones and yes i have no sex drive at all. After my castration i have been unable to get any type of erection i have no sexual desire at all

I'd say it depends on your definition of sex drive. The conventional adult male drive for orgasm and ejaculation seems to be avoidable. But there's something else. Starting the day we're born, all human beings need and want physical contact with other human beings. This gives comfort, contentment, reassurance, a sense of closeness. Call it what you will, people need to touch and be touched by others, to hold and to be held. Since this is felt long before puberty, literally from day one, I wouldn't call it sex, at least not in the usual adult sense. But it's very strong. The older I get, and the weaker my normal sex drive becomes, the more I notice my need for physical intimacy with others. I crave closeness, and have never got enough of it. I wish there were someone I could hug right now, but there isn't.

Have any of you found your need for touching to be affected by castration?