One of my deciding points for castration was based on my sex addiction future. I want to first say I have never been attracted to children. The occasional 17 or 18 year old boy but no children. I was always surprised when I would read of elderly grandfathers and uncles that would molest children at an age when you would think that the sex drive would be over. I looked forward to old age and the loss of drive before I found a way to be castrated. So I was surprised that these men were not only active but abusing children.

I began to look at myself and wonder if my addiction goes unchecked what will I be like in my 70's and 80's. As I have mentioned before when I have talked about addiction the drive to greater thrills and bigger risks was getting out of hand. I began to wonder how I would feed the addiction as I aged. Would I one day turn to children to fuel my desires. At the time I could not imagine it but in the same breath I could not imagine some of the other things I was doing.

I do not know how far I might have gone down that path. I do not know if those elder men were pedophiles all along and lost their self control. Castration was important to me because I did not want to find out where I would end up as a 70 year old addict.

Tugon,

In agreement with you. Natural age-diminishment of my libido wasn't coming soon enough for me, so I placed matters into Dr. Kimmel's capable hands.

Sexual misbehavior is particularly unbecoming in elderly folks. I take some comfort knowing I'll never be a "dirty old man." (Hopefully not a dirty old lady either.)

Terri

Tugon,

I don't think you would become a pedophile if you aren't already. However, you can still be a "dirty old man" without being a pedophile, and I understand the pain of being under the control of sexual urges. Even just spending your life and money on porn and prostitutes can be crippling emotionally.

Cheers!

SD

Sex addiction can be very harmful on your life as much as thoes around you.I know that feeling and by the grace of God I dont have to worry about that anymore.In fact i am now closer to God now that my head is clear and I can concencrate on what i should be doing and not on working so hard on the things that were of no benifit to me or others.