If this was anyone from the Archive, I hope you are doing okay now.

http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midla ... -27918600/

Derbyshire man cuts off his own testicles in DIY sex change attempt

Jan 1 2011

A MAN was recovering last night after he cut off his testicles and hurled them into a park.

The 22-year-old, from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, is believed to have carried out the DIY castration in a bid to change sex. He waited nearly 24 hours before going to hospital. On arriving at accident and emergency, he told staff he had felt “a lot less pain” than he expected.

He was given stitches and offered psychiatric help.

i will never understand why men cant get a orchiectomy as easily as a vasectomy

because castration has such a ancient history it is stigmatized

i asked a urologist that has a vesectomy pain site if orchiectomy was a option for the pain

he freeked and acted like i was a nut and called it mutilation

as a castrated man..i dont feel mutilated...nobody has ever told me i look mutilated

My wife does say she misses the feel of the testicles slapping against her during sex...then thinks getting pregnant would not be worth it

I wonder just how quickly he castrated himself, if he did not feel to mutch pain, as you would expect with cutting or was it just one hard chop of the knife.

Also i see he waited 24hrs before going to hospital,i wonder what he did to stop the bleeding,or for that matter from bleeding out during the night.

At least they had the foresight to ditch the suckers. And to not die after 24hrs! They must have done something right, or seriously lucked out.

sduyck_2000 (imported) wrote: Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:33 am i will never understand why men cant get a orchiectomy as easily as a vasectomy

because castration has such a ancient history it is stigmatized

i asked a urologist that has a vesectomy pain site if orchiectomy was a option for the pain

he freeked and acted like i was a nut and called it mutilation

As much as I want castration and understand the desire and need for it to be medically available, I also understand why doctors are adverse to it and why even the medical community would consider it mutilation.

Wanting any part of your body voluntarily removed is technically a mental illness. It may be that proper medical care involves completing the removal to align with the mental orientation of the person. But in that case it is really a matter of "minimizing the harm".

It is like abortion. There is no way that anyone can argue that abortion is a good thing. However, since people are going to do it anyway and all sorts of problems can arise if medical support is not provided, then it is better for the medical community to support it.

Another thing is that our perspective (as people with eunuch gender identity) makes us think of our genitals as trivial, unwanted, and even small. However, even the smallest genitals contain as much flesh as a thumb or even more (in my case the combined flesh of my testicles and penis are as large as my fist). So it is not a trivial request.

Perhaps the best way to understand the doctor's perspective is to imagine someone coming to you and saying they wanted some other significant part of their body removed, for example their nose. My reaction would be to say I would not do it, to tell them to get mental counseling etc. If they kept coming to me over a long period, continuing to express distress over the fact that they obsessed over losing their nose, and that they had tried to remove it themselves, eventually I would "give in".

Anyway, I'm saying that there is good reasons that doctors are (and should be) reluctant to perform castration or penectomy and only doing it after a last resort where psychiatric means and long-term evaluation are used.

I'm convinced that once someone obsesses with such a thing that the only real solution is to satisfy the obsession. But again it is a matter of minimizing the harm rather than being overly happy to perform the medical service.

I'm glad that my obsession is castration. While it is a very difficult obsession, imagine if you had the same level of obsession for something even more destructive such as suicide or anorexia, or if you had the same obsession for harming others like rape or pedophilia.