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True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:52 pm
by Kangan (imported)
What I would really like to see are some true stories about castration related themes - not adolescent fantasies about surgical and physical impossiblities.
Please don't get me wrong - Fantasy has its place, and I enjoy it as much as the next person.
Some of the blogs and forum posts about a person's castration are very good informative reading. I think this sort of thing should go into a separate category of true stories. Possible topics would include (but not be limited to): DIY castration attempts and what happened afterwards; reasons for wanting castration giving details of significant events in the author's life; childhood and teenage sexual experiences that determined your sexual orientation; basically eveything that might be of help to someone with anxieties and concerns about sexual orientation, gender issues, transgender mods, etc.
It really pains me (pardon the pun) to read an otherwise true sounding story about a castration attempt only to discover that some sort of weird impossible machine was used or there was a glaring factual error in the surgical procedure....
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:55 pm
by kristoff
Kangan (imported) wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:52 pm
What I would really like to see are some true stories about castration related themes - not adolescent fantasies about surgical and physical impossiblities.
Please don't get me wrong - Fantasy has its place, and I enjoy it as much as the next person.
Some of the blogs and forum posts about a person's castration are very good informative reading. I think this sort of thing should go into a separate category of true stories. Possible topics would include (but not be limited to): DIY castration attempts and what happened afterwards; reasons for wanting castration giving details of significant events in the author's life; childhood and teenage sexual experiences that determined your sexual orientation; basically eveything that might be of help to someone with anxieties and concerns about sexual orientation, gender issues, transgender mods, etc.
It really pains me (pardon the pun) to read an otherwise true sounding story about a castration attempt only to discover that some sort of weird impossible machine was used or there was a glaring factual error in the surgical procedure....
Try looking in the non-fiction forum, specifically for the thread "Consequences of Castration."
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:29 pm
by Kangan (imported)
I think what I was suggesting was a way to separate True Stories from the fantasy ones. There are a number of True Stories in the forums, but you have to dig them out as they are scattered under various threads.
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:42 pm
by Pueros
Problematic here is how you define a 'true' story. For example, a lot of my tales are based on known fact but have a layer of speculation on top to fill the gaps in our knowledge, turning them into what is nicknamed 'faction'.
PUEROS
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:52 am
by Bagoas (imported)
The stories in the Eunuch Archive are, for the most part, FICTION and many of them are accompanied by the familiar disclaimer that "all persons, places, and events are fictional and any resemblance to actual persons, places, and events is purely coincidental."
Any conscientious author, of which I consider myself to be one, researches the subject of his story as painstakingly as possible. Still, unless he is an expert in that particular field, errors are inevitable. Few, if any, of the authors of the stories in the Eunuch Archive are medical doctors. Errors in procedures and techniques, then, should be excused on grounds of ignorance.
Most of us do our best to be accurate.
Reading fiction requires, most of all, "the voluntary suspension of disbelief". If the reader is incapable of that, he had best confine his reading to non-fiction.
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:15 pm
by Slammr (imported)
Bagoas (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:52 am
Reading fiction requires, most of all, "the voluntary suspension of disbelief". If the reader is incapable of that, he had best confine his reading to non-fiction.
Hell, going to a movie requires suspension of belief. It seems that every time I go to one, I shake my head, saying, "No...no. That's impossible. A person couldn't possibly do that." For instance, a person dropping 50-60 feet, then stopping himself by grabbing onto a rope or some other object.
Personally, when I write a story, I try to be as accurate as possible, but having never been castrated myself or having never watched someone being castrated, I have to make it up as I go along. At least, I try to avoid having my subject ejaculate as his balls are cut off. I doubt that would happen, but some seem to think it's a turn on, and that's the reason most of the stories are written -- to turn either the reader or the writer on. Always assume the stories are fiction, unless labeled otherwise.
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 5:17 pm
by Robby (imported)
Wow, not many people on the Boards lately...
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:50 am
by Kangan (imported)
Thanks for the responses. I understand about poetic license or whatever it is called when it comes to writing fiction. If the story is deliberately designed to titilate, then obviously any sort of fictional device or artifice is appropriate.
I had hoped for more true life stories about the actual experience. So far these seem to be few and far between. For example, I find Incubus' experience very enlightening and fascinating. I do wish that we could get some input from someone who has done these operations to come forward with a few stories from their own experience. There do seem to be some "cutter" stories in the archive that suggest a true life experience, but it is difficult to separate the fact from fiction in many cases.
There seems to be some sort of attempt to index the archive by topic, but I haven't a clue how to get this to work.
Both my parents were librarians -- I guess some of that has rubbed off on me.
Re: True stories - not fantasy
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 7:38 pm
by Zoroaster (imported)
as both a writer and somebone lacking testicles, i can say the biggest obstacle to writing realistic accounts is that for the most part, they're pretty much the same. sure, there are some particularly unusual situations, like if they have some unusual scene or whatever, but most people probably just managed to find either a cutter or doctor to do it, and those stories aren't likely to differ much from person to person. especially if you go to a doctor, you may well not even be awake for it (I wasn't).
not to be discouraging or anything.
just trying to point out why you don't see them so often.
and if it helps, I suggest checking out the thread I wrote, "Castration diary," in the biographies section. It is my true account, although not particuarly sexy.