The great collective wisdom here
Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:33 am
You know, I'm somewhat embarrassed that I thought I had castrated myself with only speaker wire. (It was effective short term.) But then I realized that not even my shrink could tell me the real situation--except that I wasn't in any real danger.
That was my point earlier about not "being lucky" because I wasn't in danger. I had researched DIY castration enough to know where the worst and most common dangers lurk. I had researched it enough to know that though I couldn't expect an orchidectomy through my insurance, I could start the process, go to ER, and have them finish the job. And I knew that suffering pain before going to the ER was smarter than suffering blood loss by having my arteries draw up into my body because I had cut them without first tying them off twice and keeping enough sterilized suturing device hanging out to pull them out of any cavity.
All those DIY dangers lurk on the oozing side of cutting, of blood loss. But I guess permanent castration is virtually impossible without some kind of blood loss. I only recently realized that a Burdizzo works because it ruptures the walls of the arteries so that they break and leak blood into the scrotum. By the time the arteries heal themselves, the testicles have been deprived of blood long enough to have died off permanently. THAT'S how a Burdizzo works and that's what I didn't understand because I had never read it anywhere. Though things like leather shoelaces and speaker wire can cut off circulation of the arteries temporarily, they can't cut off circulation long enough or strong enough to castrate permanently.
But my shrink admitted on our first visit that he didn't know much about the subject of castration. My GP didn't even know the word orchidectomy! So it appears that my GP is even dumber than my shrink about the issue! Remember my GP offering me Viagra, me, an HIV+ man? And he deals frequently with HIV+ men! Wow! Is that depressing or is that depressing?
So think about it! OMG! That's pretty sad. In other words, the collective wisdom here on castration EXCEEDS that of the professional community concerning one of the oldest surgeries known to humanity! Am I the only one who is scared by that fact? No wonder I don't trust their judgment! Then there is the worse subject of global warming and those money-mad clowns running the planet! Whoops! There seems to be a pattern here. "We wrestle against spiritual wickedness in high place," St. Paul wrote. That's pretty obvious spiritual wickedness in both places: the medical community and those who control the environment. And I can think of a lot of other places, too. See the pattern?
Money is power but knowledge and wisdom are greater powers and we can't have them without communication. And we can't have communication without forgiveness.
Thanks for all your input but I'm feeling pretty irritated right now and would prefer to not engage anybody one on one. I'm in a state of mind where I could say something mean and stupid.
By the way, did you know that when poor European boys were castrated to be singers between around 1550 and 1870, they often died not because of blood loss but because of being given too much opium to kill the pain?
That was my point earlier about not "being lucky" because I wasn't in danger. I had researched DIY castration enough to know where the worst and most common dangers lurk. I had researched it enough to know that though I couldn't expect an orchidectomy through my insurance, I could start the process, go to ER, and have them finish the job. And I knew that suffering pain before going to the ER was smarter than suffering blood loss by having my arteries draw up into my body because I had cut them without first tying them off twice and keeping enough sterilized suturing device hanging out to pull them out of any cavity.
All those DIY dangers lurk on the oozing side of cutting, of blood loss. But I guess permanent castration is virtually impossible without some kind of blood loss. I only recently realized that a Burdizzo works because it ruptures the walls of the arteries so that they break and leak blood into the scrotum. By the time the arteries heal themselves, the testicles have been deprived of blood long enough to have died off permanently. THAT'S how a Burdizzo works and that's what I didn't understand because I had never read it anywhere. Though things like leather shoelaces and speaker wire can cut off circulation of the arteries temporarily, they can't cut off circulation long enough or strong enough to castrate permanently.
But my shrink admitted on our first visit that he didn't know much about the subject of castration. My GP didn't even know the word orchidectomy! So it appears that my GP is even dumber than my shrink about the issue! Remember my GP offering me Viagra, me, an HIV+ man? And he deals frequently with HIV+ men! Wow! Is that depressing or is that depressing?
So think about it! OMG! That's pretty sad. In other words, the collective wisdom here on castration EXCEEDS that of the professional community concerning one of the oldest surgeries known to humanity! Am I the only one who is scared by that fact? No wonder I don't trust their judgment! Then there is the worse subject of global warming and those money-mad clowns running the planet! Whoops! There seems to be a pattern here. "We wrestle against spiritual wickedness in high place," St. Paul wrote. That's pretty obvious spiritual wickedness in both places: the medical community and those who control the environment. And I can think of a lot of other places, too. See the pattern?
Money is power but knowledge and wisdom are greater powers and we can't have them without communication. And we can't have communication without forgiveness.
Thanks for all your input but I'm feeling pretty irritated right now and would prefer to not engage anybody one on one. I'm in a state of mind where I could say something mean and stupid.
By the way, did you know that when poor European boys were castrated to be singers between around 1550 and 1870, they often died not because of blood loss but because of being given too much opium to kill the pain?
