As a Chat Room Op, it greatly saddens me that we no longer have any legal Doctor that we can recommend to someone who longs to become a Eunuch. I look at this as an end of an Era. Those of us who are Eunuch will evenually die off and in time there will be an end to the Third Gender.

Perhaps this will cause a spike or rise in self-attempted castrations. It is hard to believe that getting castrated will become more difficult; because of the requirements that most physicians put in place,

but maybe that's a good thing. With Dr. Kimmel anyone could basically walk in and get castrated, but some regretted it later. Now, because castration will become more difficult to achieve, hopefully there will be fewer who regret being castrated. But I suppose the opposite might be true, if it's more difficult to find a doctor willing to castrate you, more men will take matters into their own hands. Time will tell.

It seems likely that people do not spend years of their lives and thousands of dollars going to MED school, to seek a career, or sub-career, in doing voluntary castrations. Toss in consequences of becoming a professional and social outcast plus legal restrictions and liabiality issues and one can imagine that there are many dis-incentives for any qualified person to perform such operations.

Even so, at some point there is bound to be someone who falls out of grace in their profession for one reason or another, but is otherwise licensed and qualified, and they need to make money, and they might add voluntary castration to their menu of services.

I wonder just how far off shore a ship must sail, and under what flag it must fly, before legal and liability issues can be avoided; not that this would be an affordable alternative.

Many natural non-toxic herbs are available at affordable prices that can provide some assistance in the battle to destroy those nastly little testosterone hormones. A visit to any number of male body building web sites will provide lots of information; their goal is to pump up testosterone and there is loads of information on what to take to pump up testosterone, and what to avoid that interferes with testosterone.

nullorchis (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:52 am I wonder just how far off shore a ship must sail, and under what flag it must fly, before legal and liability issues can be avoided; not that this would be an affordable alternative.

Wikipedia says - 24 nautical miles to the exclusive economic zone, 200 nautical miles to international waters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_waters

PS. Probably not on ship - but on floating platform... but we are going off topic here...

I know that we all expected Dr. Kimmel to retire sometime soon. His advancing age was beginning to show in his work. What is unexpected is its suddenness and his lack of provision for a successor.

The one positive that I can report so far is that our presentation to

JesusA (imported) wrote: Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:46 pm the American Urological Association

resulted in a request for more information, not a rejection. It’s much too early to tell what the final result will be, but we are optimistic that there will be urologists/surgeons willing to help.

Hi,

As previously mentioned in this thread by Mr. T, I for one would highly recommend Dr. Marci Bowers as an alternative to those seeking an orchi.

She is an extremely competent surgeon and her degree of medical experience in this area is at least equal to or may exceed those of Dr. Kimmel, especially considering his advanced age.

No need to panic about Dr. Kimmel's departure from the scene. We know there are about six doctors around the country who do elective castrations and other genital surgeries. One is Dr. Reed in Miami. What is the difference between flying to Philly or Miami. Flight is about the same, but Miami Beach is the logical choice. I spoke with him for a while and he is a very personable, friendly and non-judgemental. He takes his time to describe things to you. With his consultation fee of $250 and castration fee of $2500 he is about $750 above where Kimmel was. He referred me to several therapists who could do most of the work over the phone and a visit when you come for surgery. Two referrals are required. I am just making a guess of $150 each. A nice motel where his patients usually stay is nearby and depending on season could be comparable to the Philly motel. Also, if you go to his web site the facility is absolutely top notch. It will cost more, maybe $1000, but looks worth it.

Do we know who the others are?