I STILL CAN'T TELL MY MOTHER OR ANY OF MY FAMILY ABOUT MY CASTRATION. I CAN TALK ABOUT IT WITH ANYBODY ELSE, BUT THEY DON'T WANT TO LISTEN, THEY THINK I'M WEIRD.

AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT FEELS THIS WAY, OR GET THE SAME REACTIONS FROM YOUR FRIENDS?

I get the feeling that many people (people who don't come to bulletin boards like this one, of course) are uninterested/weirded out by such topics.

think this topic is weird. That doesn't mean they don't share our anxieties and fears. They do.

I keep telling people about my loss of testoterone. Women babble about their loss of hormones, why shouldn't I talk about my own losses.

I let one person in on it (my thoughts on castration, outside of here) ONE time and I'll never do it again. It's not exactly dinner table conversation, you know.

Oh, and please turn your caps lock off.

Telling the family, that was not my first choise but when I did they were fine with it, I think yours may be also. Tell them you had cancer and they had to be removed. For me it has been a good thing.

Riverwind

OH yes, they know about the Eunuch Archives, the Chat room everything.

Good Luck

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:05 pm Telling the family, that was not my first choise but when I did they were fine with it, I think yours may be also. Tell them you had cancer and they had to be removed.

That is, in fact, what I have told my family and friends. And after all, prostate cancer is not that uncommon in men age 57. which I was at the time of the surgery.

As of today, still no regrets, and still think this current calmness to be wonderful.

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Riverwind (imported) wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:05 pm Telling the family, that was not my first choise but when I did they were fine with it, ... Tell them you had cancer and they had to be removed.

Why is it that people can accept anything if it is medically required but not if it is elective? What is so sacred about ones penis and testicles that people can't accept their removal?

I find it amazing how many times I hear things like "Blah, blah, blah, back when I had my hysterectomy, blah" from even casual aquaintences, yet would never EVER expect to hear "Blah, blah, blah, back back when I was castrated, blah" from even close friends.

There is a HUGE difference in what our particular culture/society/time feels it is OK to talk about, and what is hidden and dark.

Just off-hand I'd say that probably only a dozen of the folks I worked with/worked for me at the "Fortune 500" company knew directly from me or discussed it with me.

In the start-up company I formed later, it was much more general knowledge - might have had something to do with the *CHIEF EUNUCH* under my name on my desk and on my office door, eh?

Maybe it was the way I dressed: It was obvious there was nothing in my crotch.

Maybe it was some of the office parties - uh, we'll leave those alone ...

I also had two sets of business cards, one of which listed me as "CTO" and the other as "CTO and Chief Eunuch, " depending on who I was giving it to.

But family? Hmmmmmmm ... If they didn't have to know they didn't hear it from me.

Strange, eh?

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Tomas (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:12 am I find it amazing how many times I hear things like ...

back when I had my hysterectomy ... yet would never EVER expect to hear ...

Tomas (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:12 am back back when I was castrated ...

. ... Strange, eh? It is a real dual standard. Hysterectony is rather common and generally accepted. However, castration and penectony are frowned upon and not openly discussed. WHY?

Andrew wrote:

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Andrew (imported) wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2003 6:18 pm That is, in fact, what I have told my family and friends.

> And after all, prostate cancer is not that uncommon in

> men age 57. which I was at the time of the surgery.

I thought you did have prostate cancer, although it was only at stage A, where using castration to treat it woul

Tomas (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 11, 2003 11:12 am d have been overkill for most people.

Tomas wrote:

> In the start-up company I formed later, it was much

> more general knowledge - might have had something

> to do with the *CHIEF EUNUCH* under my name on my

> desk and on my office door, eh?

I suppose when you're the boss, it's easier to express yourself because it's not like people can decide to fire you because they don't like eunuchs?