Is Self-Castration Insanity?

[JesusA (imported)]

A post from the blog “Unwillingly Celibate,” by Eduardo Monteverde. While I doubt that Monteverde is a member here, I thought that some of this group might be interested in his take on castration.

Is Self-Castration Insanity? Maybe not.

February 25, 2010

I once knew a guy who castrated himself. At that time, I thought the guy must be out of his mind. After all, what sort of person would mutilate himself in such a permanent way, making sure he never would have sex again.

The thought of never having sex with a woman ever again —or any kind of sex, for that matter—was horrifying to me.

But now that I’m a lot older, and after not having sex for over seven years, I’ve discovered that it’s unlikely I’ll ever have sex again. I’m facing up to the realization that I’m probably impotent. And, I’ve gradually gotten used to the idea over the past month or so. And frankly, now I don’t give a damn.

The fellow who had clipped his nuts off was actually very happy about the result. He told me, “Hey look, I’m completely free of the need for women.” And as I got to know him better, I realized that he was very happy not needing or wanting women—which is a freedom that I haven’t known since I was 14 years old. He truly had absolutely no use for a woman whatsoever. The very concept astounds me.

It truly is the ultimate form of male freedom. Those damn testicles swinging down there between my legs have kept me imprisoned all of my entire adult life. They are the source of obsessive-compulsive behavior that has made me a slave to one woman or another since puberty.

So yes, the idea of self-castration is appealing to me. However, I’ll admit that I’m not just a little afraid of the pain—and the possible outcome. I’m thinking there might be all sort of unintended consequences. Speaking honestly, I guess I just don’t have the balls to do it.

http://celibateguys.wordpress.com/2010/ ... maybe-not/

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Thanks for the thoughts.

I have actually thought about asking the difference between aging and chemical castration. It gets into so many things, like how does a relationship work if you don't have sex to "work out" the inevitable conflicts between two people? I just never really followed the thoughts thru enough to be able to do a concise post.

There are many other points of discussion. For example, I find travelling that there is the occassional opportunity for an unauthorized romp. I have not done it, but it does get my juices flowing just having the opportunity. Does it leave an empty hole when that no longer presents itself? A hole big enough that one questions the value of life?

Given the balance of less sex and definitely less drinking and carousing in my life now vs. the respect I have as a very experienced professional, I would take my current age over younger any time. Maybe it is just ego. I kind of gather you have reached that age where you have respect and access to people that you never would have at age 30. Can I ask, in your heart of hearts is life now better than 40 years ago (despite the loss of some things)?

Maybe others can comment on some of those things also - or add other thoughts.

[mrt (imported)]

A post from the blog “Unwillingly Celibate,”

by Eduardo Monteverde. While I doubt that Monteverde is a member here, I thought that some of this group might be interested in his take on castration.

Is Self-Castration Insanity? Maybe not.

February 25, 2010

I once knew a guy who castrated himself. At that time, I thought the guy must be out of his mind. After all, what sort of person would mutilate himself in such a permanent way, making sure he never would have sex again.

The thought of never having sex with a woman ever again

—or any kind of sex, for that matter—

was horrifying to me.

But now that I’m a lot older, and after not having sex for over seven years, I

’ve discovered that it’s unlikely I’ll ever have sex again. I’

m facing up to the realization that I

’m probably impotent. And, I’

ve gradually gotten used to the idea over the past month or so. And frankly, now I don’t give a damn.

The fellow who had clipped his nuts off was actually very happy about the result. He told me, “Hey look, I’m completely free of the need for women.” And as I got to know him better, I realized that he was very happy not needing or wanting women

—which is a freedom that I haven’

t known since I was 14 years old. He truly had absolutely no use for a woman whatsoever. The very concept astounds me.

It truly is the ultimate form of male freedom. Those damn testicles swinging down there between my legs have kept me imprisoned all of my entire adult life. They are the source of obsessive-compulsive behavior that has made me a slave to one woman or another since puberty.

So yes, the idea of self-castration is appealing to me. However, I

’ll admit that I’m not just a little afraid of the pain—and the possible outcome. I’

m thinking there might be all sort of unintended consequences. Speaking honestly, I guess I just don’t have the balls to do it.

http://celibateguys.wordpress.com/2010/ ... maybe-not/

I think this makes some pretty wacky assumptions. One that once you've lost your testes you never going to have sex again. Some Eunuchs retain a sex drive and some (like me) take HRT and have a pretty robust sex life. The second is that having a sex drive makes it impossible to think. That it controls your life and your obsessed with sex. I think this is just damned silly. Its like saying everyone who drinks can't control it. Sure some people can not control it but the vast majority can.

Just my 2 cents worth...

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Sure some people can not control it but the vast majority can.

I think you could have made your point building on wording such as this and leaving out wording like wacky. I did not read the original post as anything other than a personal statement of where he is in life. I also wouldn't agree with everything said, but that is an individual's right. I appreciated it as sharing some very personal thoughts and afterwards understanding that person better. Remember, everybody on this site including you and I is "whacky" by many definitions.

[halfcock (imported)]

its each man own thing to do with his balls, what he want. and i believe his life will be much more peacefull and satisfyed without this bowles, with less trouble and problems...atleast in older years, when in the partnership nothing is running more.

[Quillman (imported)]

Here in the UK you still have to see a "shrink" and answer some searching questions in Hospital-(afterwards) mine was 20 years ago and it is still the same. Indeed I understand it is classed as "self-harming" - I suppose it is really, and you can still be Sectioned and locked up.

The only route available in the UK is to change gender- but the Eunuch route is impossible! Sad, but true I'm afraid.

Quillman UK

[punkypink (imported)]

Nope. It is not.

[Elizabeth (imported)]

This is one of those really great subjects to discuss. First we have to decide what is sane and what is not. Then we have to determine a mechanism to determine if self-castration is a normal, but rare human behavior or the product of some defect of the mind or brain.

Being a psyche major, I can report to you that there is a great deal of disagreement about what is and is not sane behavior. The problem is we tend to confuse that which is socially/culturally unacceptable and label anyone with such behavior as being insane. Example, we used to consider homosexuals to be insane. Transsexuality is still considered a mental disorder even though it's treated with hormones and surgery.

I think it is fairly common to consider child rapists and child murderers to be "sick" or to have a mental disorder. In fact it could be argued that anyone who kills another is insane, since most of us can control this urge to kill and not kill anyone.

Being a transgendered person what I can say is: It would be insane if the untreated transsexual did not try to achieve body modification, even if that means self castration and self penectomy. There are many who disagree, but that is my opinion.

The deal is this, there are about 7,000,000,000,000 combination's of the human genetic code. That means that there will have to seven trillion people born before the probability of a person with the same dna pattern as someone already born to take place.

The point is that there is a huge diversity in what a human is. There is no "average" or "normal". Those are made up phrases so people could consider themselves elite. There is a wide diversity in humans and to say that just because any certain behavior may only be seen in a small fraction of the population, that, that means they are defective, is a false premise.

When we study animals we don't say that a behavior is insane because we see it only in a minority of that particular animal. Some female lions will kill all the cubs while the other females are out hunting. No one says that female is insane. It's accepted as part of lion behavior. Just as we see over 60 species that exhibit homosexual behavior, yet some people continue to say that homosexuality is "not natural".

If self-castration brings about happiness, it's difficult to say that the behavior is "insane".

Elizabeth

[mrt (imported)]

I think you could have made your point building on wording such as this and leaving out wording like wacky. I did not read the original post as anything other than a personal statement of where he is in life. I also wouldn't agree with everything said, but that is an individual's right. I appreciated it as sharing some very personal thoughts and afterwards understanding that person better. Remember, everybody on this site including you and I is "whacky" by many definitions.

Ok, instead of "wacky" how about Wrong, incorrect or uninformed? I admit that having self control is not as easy for some people as others but to make statements that everyone with balls/testosterone is out of control and focused only on sex is not correct. Having an opinion is one thing. Saying the moon is made of cheese another.

[Hash (imported)]

Let's start with, "Why would a man castrate himself? What motivates him to do such a thing, if it's not testosterone as MRT believes, then what is it? Why was I motivated to castrate myself, at least partially by myself? It's a hard thing to figure out, but I could not control myself, the desire or thought to castrate myself overwhelmed me, I had to do it. But not because of women or the desire to end my sex life and not because I hated my balls. I believe I partially castrated myself (I had intended to castrate myself fully at the time) because it was a necessity that grew out of frustration. I thought that cutting my balls off would satisfy an inner need. I never thought that they didn't belong there, I just felt compelled to cut them off and eventually I couldn't stop myself from thinking about it. Thinking of getting castrated made me happy. So is this insanity? I don't know. Other than this, I think I'm sane. I work, I play, I do everything else normally, however, I something think about becoming sexless, removing my penis. I can't tell you why I think about this, but I do, occasionally. Maybe it's my genes, maybe it's from when I was a kid and had bad sexual experiences, don't know. It's hard to figure things out, maybe I'm not supposed to have a sex.