In the paper "Eunuchs in Contemporary Society: Expectations, Consequences, and Adjustments to Castration (Part II)" by Michelle A. Brett, Lesley F. Roberts, Thomas W. Johnson, PhD, and Richard J. Wassersug, PhD, 92 voluntarily surgically castrated genetic XY males were surveyed on many topics ...

I'd wager about 18, I had a vague interest in history and discovered eunuchs and castration from their position in the Eastern Mediterranean. That coupled with my dysphoria gave me an interest in castration.


I was about 11 when I was first exposed to harmful/abusive (really bad stuff) sexual ...

According to everything I've read the Hijras are castrated. Not sure if orchie only, or full nullo though.

One thing that is very different between EA-style voluntary eunuchs and hijras is most of us present as men, while hijras present as women. I know hijras are treated very badly.

"While ...

No chemically castrated yet guess it's harder to obtain compared to physical castration, and it's something you need to take over-time rather than a one-and-done like physical castration.

I've heard younger eunuchs are still employed in Saudi Arabia for the purpose of guarding women and the like. All done very hush-hush, of course.

So intentionally castrating eunuchs for palatial functions only dates back to the 3rd century BCE? Fascinating, I'd have expected it to have occured much sooner. Still their apogee was from 618 to 1644, a thousand years where eunuchs played a key role in political functions. Their inability to ...

Like WheelyFixed said, how effective is it? To quote from another - admittedly unsourced website:

According to most psychiatric diagnoses, the overwhelming majority of rapes are mainly driven by megalomania on the part of the perpetrator—their motive is not merely unfulfilled sexual "needs" but ...

For a double orchiectomy you'd think they could sell it as a two-in-one deal, no?
But really where does the expense come from? We've been performing castrations for centuries now, the most modern thing is the analgesic they give you during the operation, is it that expensive?

To be fair most media that features castration is pretty messed up. Most people are horrified by the very idea castration so it's not common for it to be presented in a positive light.


Can't disagree with you too much, there's the sexual aspect to it which understandably repulses a lot of ...

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Hoping the same as you, the first half of the 20s has been a disaster politically speaking, let's hope it's uphill from here! Where do we talk about politics here anyways? As in, those policies that concern eunuchs that is.