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I don't know that it actually has any application here, but, according to what I have read, there is apparently no "natural" limitation of sexuality to two sexes. Research has, I guess, shown that there are some simple organisms that have more than one sex, and a few have more than four sexes. I'm ...

This is a question that came up a while ago. I didn't pursue it, but perhaps someone who has done some research, could answer it.

The question is, does the body increase production of certain hormones or similar substances, after the testes are excised? Of course, the levels of hormones produced by ...

Phil--

You may already have looked into this, and concluded that it doesn't work, but I thought I'd mention it, as I remember reading that some people had found it useful. A few years ago, I read several articles about alpha wave conditioning, as a way of modulating mood swings, shaping attitudes ...

Curious--Can a website like eunuch.org (or, for that matter, BME) be partitioned, so that a sanitized version can be sent to ip addresses specific to a country like the UK, and the full version can be sent to places without restrictive laws? According to what I have read, something like this is done ...

I may have made too many assumptions again. I thought that the word "eunuchoid" was primarily used as a noun--come to think of it, though, I can't remember any specific instance where I saw it as that part of speech. Maybe the Oxford English Dictionary can provide a definitive usage framework for ...

Of course, I was, in part, just buttering up Rog, so I might be able to press him into service as a tour guide, if I ever get back to England. Ever since reading about the romantic poets of the nineteenth century, I've wanted to see the Lake District, but never got anywhere near there. Also would ...

Rog--

I didn't read most of your posts to the archive a couple of years in the past, but I'm impressed by your intelligence and attitude. My own take on the whole subject of voluntary eunuchism is, that it is only part of a larger process of rethinking and restructuring the way that society deals ...

One possibility--It might make some sense to explain in Wikipedia the distinction between "eunuch" and "eunuchoid," since the two terms overlap somewhat, in terms of what is described. I think some individuals who post to the archive and describe themselves as eunuchs, might actually be more ...

A few more terms for a group of eunuchs, which have been suggested:

A banding of eunuchs (re: elastrator)

A choir or eunuchs (maybe appropriate for castrati)

A cutting of eunuchs (as in a "cutting of hay.")

A nuttin' of eunuchs (as in, for example, "Harry, dear, what you got in that bag?" Answer ...

I guess there's no question about it. Andrew may be getting long in the tooth, but he can still pun with the worst of them!

Philip--

There are very few individuals who are both good creative artists and good welders. By all means, you should do some experimenting in this area, since welded sculpture has unique features that can't be duplicated in any other medium. I'm not sure whether there are outlets for metal ...

Although I actually find this a little outside my own experience, I would guess that there may be a larger question here. That is to say, is there something about the human mind (or, perhaps, the minds of mammals, in general) which generates in some individuals a "third gender type?" I think Jesus ...

If I understand this correctly, is the Fraj saying that those who desire orchiectomy, are attempting to attain harmony between their own mental perceptions of their gender identity--something which may have been determined before they were born--and the physical characteristics of their bodies?

I ...

I wonder if advancing age degrades an individual's ability to formulate bad puns. Also, Andrew, I may have missed this--are you all done with bankruptcy court?

Interesting to speculate whether, had the Fraj required the surgery for cancer, or had the organs been lost in an accident, he would have adapted more positively to the situation. My impression is that, for most who, like Mr. Wassersug, have had orchiectomy for urgent medical reasons, the adaptation ...

Philip--

Having once learned to weld with an arc welder myself, I can understand the satisfaction which comes from having done a competent welding job. Never actually was employed as a welder, though.

Just a question. Since you moved from one of the most socially liberal areas of the country to ...

Plix, about all I can tell you, is that you live in a world in which most of what people expect from you, makes no sense, and it's largely part of a control system that is intended to be used to manipulate you and everybody around you. Try to stop concentrating all the time about what other people ...

Someone else who logs onto this archive occasionally (in recent weeks, more often than I do) made this comment a while ago: "The ones who look good down there seem more satisfied and positive than the others." This is a woman who emphasizes neatness, and,to her, "looking good" means that the scrotum ...

I have to agree with A-1 and Flo, and this thread frankly appalls me. If Dutchbob's "master" is going to pressure him into what is described, then the fellow has no concern for Dutchbob's safety or well being.

It looks as if the HIV angle on this has been dropped, but I just might add that an acquaintance who was involved in AIDS patient care in the past (but not at present) says that a number of people knowledgeable about the disease, think that there is a very low rate of infection when there is no ...

Since transgendering seems to be widely accepted in the medical community, it seems odd to me that the performance of an orchiectomy--a much less invasive procedure--should be considered cause for making a complaint against a surgeon. I guess the idea is what sets people off. How many orchiectomies ...

I was recently asked whether the name of a website I administer, is trademarked. (It isn't, at present.) This got me to thinking whether various websites I frequently access are trademarked--one of which, of course, would be the Eunuch Archive. So, this is just a question--is the archive trademarked ...

Phil--

This is, I think, the only thread in the archive which is in (more or less) a journal or diary format, and which details the process of someone going from the sex condition of an uncastrated male, to the eunuch condition. And I would guess that is the reason why the thread has gotten 19,000 ...

Decided to see if I could find an example of the sculpture type described above. This one isn't particularly good, but you can get the idea. Click on "herms," and you get a little background info.

http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/objects/o9917.html

Reminds me of the practice which some sculptors followed in ancient times, of sculpting a head or bust of someone, then sculpting a set of sex organs (presumably those of the subject) at the bottom of the block--of course, without the body in between. Offhand, I think that type of sculpture might ...