I recently read an article which dealt with how traffic on the internet is affected by links from one web page to another, and also by whether a website is mentioned on certain web pages. Apparently, if, for example, Drudgereport.com puts up a link to an obscure website, the number of hits on the site can increase by hundreds of times overnight. For some well known websites like weather.com, myspace.com, amazon.com, espn.go.com and ebay.com, there are tens or hundreds of thousands of links to those sites from other web pages.

This got me thinking about whether there are a lot of links from other web pages to eunuch.org. I originally accessed this site from a link on BME, but I have never seen any other link to eunuch.org anywhere else, and I don't think I have ever actually seen a reference to the website on any other web page. That may be partly because I don't access a lot of sites which would have links to this one. I think that most people would consider the subject of this website rather odd and obscure, so it would be surprising if there were a lot of sites which linked to it. All the same, there are a lot of Archive members, and they all got to the site from somewhere; some must have come to eunuch.org from someplace besides BME or search engines.

So, I'm curious as to whether anyone knows, or could make an educated guess, as to how many links there are to eunuch.org on other websites. I would think this is the sort of thing which is tough to find out or even to accurately guess, since nobody actually has to report that he has created a link, and huge numbers of them are created every day. Big internet servers have data cached from large numbers of websites, and I would guess that, theoretically, those caches could be searched for specific links--but only by whoever owns or manages the servers. I don't think any server actually has more than a fraction of all websites on it, anyway.

According to the article I read, links are a critical factor in the success of some websites, and it's conceivable that, if links to eunuch.org were put in certain places, the type of people who post regularly to the message board or who frequent the chat room, might be attracted to the site, and use of these parts of the Archive would increase. Of course, it's also possible that more individuals who were for some reason undesirable would access the site if there were more links to it.

I believe I have seen references to EA in some yahoo groups and maybe transgender pages, but I don't remember any links being posted. I think this site has also been mentioned in a movie or two. In the movie "Hard Candy", a site was mentioned for eunuchs. I think it was "eunuch questions". I don't think it exists though. I don't know why they didn't mention EA. It might be a good thing though, we would maybe just end up getting a lot of hecklers. According to my wife castration is not a normal thing men want to talk about let alone have done. She says that we castrated guys are a very small minority of the men on this planet. I wonder how many of us there actually are.

While I’m not sure what sites currently link to the Eunuch Archive, I do have in my file a request from one site, dated December 8, 2004, that requested a cross linkage with our site

I am the volunteer administrator for the Acne Resource Center, an informational resource about Acne; how it develops, the science behind it, and how to cope. In our efforts to promote awareness about acne, we have been looking for websites to exchange links with. I have taken a look at your site, and it seems as if it would be a resource that people might also be interested in viewing.

If you will link to "The Acne Resource Center", located at

http://www.acne-resource.org

(our website) and send me an email listing where the link can be found on your site, I will add your reciporical link to our site within 24 hours.

Please just let me know what you'd like us to link to (if you would like to include a short byline for your site, please include that with your email and I'll be happy to include that as well). You will get free traffic to your site and we would get a database of quality sites to offer our viewers.

Hairless (imported) wrote: Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:56 pm I believe I have seen references to EA in some yahoo groups and maybe transgender pages, but I don't remember any links being posted. I think this site has also been mentioned in a movie or two. In the movie "Hard Candy", a site was mentioned for eunuchs. I think it was "eunuch questions". I don't think it exists though. I don't know why they didn't mention EA. It might be a good thing though, we would maybe just end up getting a lot of hecklers. According to my wife castration is not a normal thing men want to talk about let alone have done. She says that we castrated guys are a very small minority of the men on this planet. I wonder how many of us there actually are.

The EA has been cited in probably several hundred different places. It is rather widely cached on search engines. I am aware of links being directly posted in about 2 dozen locations, such as Nifty, as well as BME (our hosts). Most often, our membership rises dramatically after a bit of publicity. Last year about February Bart Blast-His-Game published an article in Details magazine (disgusting pile of shit - him and the article). Our enrollments increased about 400 in 30 days as a result. Of course most are now being purged because of inactivity. This is a frequently repeated occurance. The questions site you are referring to is "Alt.Eunuchs.Questions." Not sure if it still exists, but I suspect it does - havent checked in a couple of years. It got crushed by spammers and trolls - most folks from there are now here. While voluntary castration involves an extremely small minority of men, castration is not that uncommon an occurence - it is actually very common as a result of prostate and testicular cancers as well as injuries. Medicare alone pays for about 80,000 a year in the US as a result of treatment for prostate cancer. Doing some extrapolating based on increase longevity of such persons, there are probably 1.5 to 2 million castrates in the US alone as a result of prostate cancer.

alt.eunuchs.questions is a Usenet group, not an actual website. Usenet groups require a newsreader application such as Agent or the like to access. They are not web pages.

I also seriously doubt if that acne research site was for real. Somehow, I don't think castration as a cure for acne is going to catch on much with teenage boys - the primary victims of it who COULD benefit from a lower testosterone level!

Paolo wrote: Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:50 pm I also seriously doubt if that acne research site was for real. Somehow, I don't think castration as a cure for acne is going to catch on much with teenage boys - the primary victims of it who COULD benefit from a lower testosterone level!

A couple of us checked it out at the time. The Acne Resource Center was (and is) real. The person who contacted us was listed as one of their administrators. Maybe he knew something that the rest of us didn't....

I had a roommate in college who might actually have chosen castration to get rid of the worst case of acne I have ever seen on a real, live human. It covered nearly every inch of his entire body with great pustules. Massive doses of medication did not help. In his 60s, he still has major acne and has had only a single girlfriend (for only a short while) in the past 40 years.