New Survey

[JesusA]

Interest in Castration: Origins & Outcomes

We invite you to participate in a survey of the Eunuch Archive community. The survey is for eunuchs, eunuch wannabes, and any and all others who may have interests in castration, whether as fantasy or academic interest. After taking the survey yourself, please ask others interested in castration to also take it.

This survey follows two previous surveys posted on the Eunuch Archive in 2005 (922 participants) and 2008 (3086 participants). The results of those studies have been published in a series of scientific papers, and we would be happy to send copies of those papers to anyone who requests them. I will be posting a list of the papers and how to access them soon.

This survey will take approximately 30-45 minutes to complete. Most of the questions require only checking the appropriate box, however some questions are open-ended and ask for a brief written response. Some of you may even want to give longer responses on one or two questions (and the response boxes will expand to any length you care to write).

One of the two researchers, Dr. Thomas Johnson, is a member of the Eunuch Archive Board. Tom is a retired professor of Medical Anthropology from California State University, Chico.

Because of the personal nature of the questions we are asking, it is very important that everyone understand their answers will be completely confidential. At no time will we ask for your name or email address. Your confidentiality will be completely protected and nothing you say or write will be traceable to you individually. This survey has been approved by the Human Subjects Research Board of the California State University, Chico in advance of posting on the Survey Monkey website. Before starting the questionnaire, you will be asked to read about this project and give your consent to participate in the study. Participation in this survey is on voluntary basis.

You can access the survey directly at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FLRFNLH

[JesusA]

The first two surveys of the Eunuch Archive community have resulted in a series of academic papers that have raised awareness of eunuch-related issues in the medical and psychological communities. There are more counselors willing to work with those who are interested in castration and an increasing number of surgeons are willing to provide care to those with castration interest.

We hope that papers based on the Third Survey (which is currently open to participants) will provide even more visibility for those who are interested in castration.

Below is a listing of papers published to date. I will be happy to send PDF copies to anyone who requests them. To simplify the process, each essay is numbered in square brackets after its listing.

If you would like copies, send me a request that includes an email address that will accept PDF attachments and the number(s) for the essays that you want. While I will be happy to send all 23 articles, please request them in batches of no more than five at a time. I hope that you will be willing to comment on the articles, either here on the Archive or in emails back to me. Your feedback is important as we move forward.

You can send your requests to:

TWJ-(at)-sonic-(dot)-net

Papers Based on Previous Eunuch Archive Surveys

First Survey (2005)

Johnson TW, Brett MA, Roberts LF, Wassersug, RJ. (2007). Eunuchs in contemporary society: Characterizing men who are voluntarily castrated. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 4:930-945. [EU-01]

Brett, MA, Roberts LF, Johnson TW, Wassersug, RJ. (2007). Eunuchs in contemporary society: Expectations, consequences and adjustments to castration. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 4:946-955. [EU-02]

Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2007). Modern-day eunuchs: Motivations for and consequences of contemporary castration. Perspectives in Biology & Medicine; 50:544-56. [EU-03]

Roberts LF, Brett MA, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2008). A passion for castration: Characterizing men who are fascinated with castration, but have not been castrated. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 5:1169-1680. [EU-04]

Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ, Roberts LF, Sutherland MB, First MB. (2010). Desire for castration is not a Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID): A response. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 7:852-855. [EU-05]

Second Survey (2008)

Wassersug RJ, Lieberman T. (2010). Contemporary castration: why the modern day eunuch remains invisible. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20719851) BMJ;341:c4509. [EU-06]

Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2010). Gender identity disorder outside the binary: When gender identity disorder-not otherwise specified is not good enough. Archives of Sexual Behavior; 39:597-598. [EU-07]

Vale K, Johnson TW, Jansen MS, Lawson BK, Lieberman T, Willett KH, Wassersug RJ. (2010). The development of standards of care for individuals with a male-to-eunuch gender identity disorder. International Journal of Transgenderism; 12:40-51. [EU-08]

Wibowo E, Wassersug R, Warkentin K, Walker L, Robinson J, Brotto L, Johnson TW. (2012). Impact of androgen deprivation therapy on sexual function: A response. Asian Journal of Andrology; 14:793-794. [EU-09]

Wassersug RJ (http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user ... =en&oi=sra), McKenna E, Lieberman T. (2012). Eunuch as a gender identity after castration (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1 ... 012.681178). Journal of Gender Studies; 21:253-270. [EU-10]

Johnson, TW. (2012). Castrati Singers - All for fame: A commentary. Journal of Sexual Medicine; 10:618-619. [EU-11]

Treleaven MMM, Jackowich RA, Roberts L, Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2013). Castration and personality: Correlation of androgen deprivation and estrogen supplementation with the big five fFactor personality traits of adult males. Journal of Research in Personality; 47:376-379. [EU-12]

Jackowich RA, Johnson TW, Brassard, P, Bélanger M, Wassersug R. (2013) Age of sex reassignment surgery for male-to-female transsexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior; 43:13-15. [EU-13]

Vale K, Siemens I, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2013). Religiosity, childhood abuse, and other risk factors correlated with voluntary genital ablation. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science; 45:230-237. [EU-14]

Johnson TW, Irwig MJ. (2014). What's missing? The hidden world of castration and testicular self-injury among eunuchs. Nature Reviews / Urology; 11:297-300. [EU-15]

Jackowich RA, Vale R, Vale K, Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2014). Voluntary genital ablations: Contrasting the cutters and their clients. Sexual Medicine; 2:121-132. [EU-16]

Wassersug RJ, Johnson TW. (2015). Castration. The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, ed. by P.Whelehan & A.Bolin. New York: John Wiley & Sons. [EU-17]

Johnson, TW, Wassersug RJ. (2015). Eunuchs. The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality, ed. by P.Whelehan & A.Bolin. New York: John Wiley & Sons. [EU-18]

Handy AB, Wassersug RJ, Ketter JTJ, Johnson TW. (2015). The sexual side of castration narratives: Fiction written by and for eunuchs and eunuch "wannabes". The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality; 24:151-159. [EU-19]

Handy AB, Johnson TW. (2015). Eunuchs online. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly; 2:710-716. [EU-20]

Wibowo E, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2016). Infertility, impotence, and emasculation - Psychosocial contexts for abandoning reproduction. Asian Journal of Andrology; 18:403-408. [EU-21]

Handy AB, Jackowich BA, Wibowo E, Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2016). Gender preference in the sexual attractions, fantasies, and relationships of voluntarily castrated men. Sexual Medicine; 4:e51-e59. [EU-22]

Johnson TW, Wassersug RJ. (2016). Recognition of gender variants outside the binary in WPATH Standards of Care, Version 7.0. International Journal of Transgenderism; 17:1-3. [EU-23]

[sparkey49 (imported)]

Filled it out completely and am glad it exists and hope it is helpful for understanding our community.

[uncowled (imported)]

I Likewise

[ambiguous (imported)]

I did it as well however some of the questions I think they may be well off the scent with.

[Hopeful1 (imported)]

Done. In the education questions, there needs to be an option for a two year, Associate degree.

[kristoff]

Completed the survey.

[gandalf (imported)]

Completed the survey.

[Wolf-Pup (imported)]

Took the survey

[aeunuch2 (imported)]

Completed the survey. I was disappointed in the narrow focus of the questions. Did not apply much to my castration and thought of peneoctomy.

[kristoff]

Completed the survey. I was disappointed in the narrow focus of the questions. Did not apply much to my castration and thought of peneoctomy.

Keep in mind that the first two surveys covered much territory, and that this, the third, is a continuation from those first two.

[JesusA]

References for Questions used in 'Interest in Castration'

To add to Kristoff's comment, this is our third survey of the Eunuch Archive community. While a few of the questions are duplicates from earlier surveys (to allow us to compare the results), most are new and are designed to add on to the existing knowledge. (The second survey, alone, had 502 questions!)

In addition to questions that we have designed specifically for this survey, in order to be able to compare those who have an interest in castration with other populations that have been well studied, we have used a number of existing questionnaires. Some of the questions may seem irrelevant, but the full set is important for proper comparison. We hope that this will provide greater understanding and access to help.

Below is a list of questionnaires and scales that we have used. Most of the surveys have much wider utility than their title may imply and have been widely used for a variety of different populations. If you have any questions about the survey, feel free to contact either Prof. Thomas W. Johnson (TWJ-(at)-sonic-(dot)-net) or Samantha Wong (eunuchsurvey-(at)-gmail-(dot)-com). We will be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Aoyama A, et al. 2012. Impaired spatial-temporal integration of touch in xenomelia (body integrity identity disorder). Spatial Cognition and Computation 12(2-3):96-110.

Cash TF. 2000. The multidimensional body-self relations questionnaire. 3rd rev. Available at www.body-images.com (http://www.body-images.com).

Huber S & Huber OW. 2012. The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS). Religions 3(3):710-724.

Janda LH & Bazemore SD. 2011. The Revised Mosher Sex-Guilt Scale: Its psychometric properties and a proposed ten-item version. Journal of Sex Research 48(4):392-396.

Lippa R. 1998. Gender-related individual differences and the structure of vocational interests: The importance of the people-things dimension. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74(4):996-1009.

Lowe B, et al. 2008. Validation and standardization of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD-7) in the general population. Medical Care 46(3):266-274.

McGahuey CA, et al. 2000. The Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX): Reliability and validity. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy 26(1):25-40.

Miles C, Green R, & Hines M. 2006. Estrogen treatment effects on cognition, memory and mood in male-to-female transsexuals. Hormones and Behavior 50(5):708-717.

Radloff LS. 1977. The CES-D Scale: A self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Applied Psychological Measurement 1(3):385-401.

Shariff AF & Rhemtulla M. 2012. Divergent effects of beliefs in heaven and hell on national crime rates. PLoS One 7(6):e39048.

Thombs BD, et al. 2006. An evaluation of screening questions for childhood abuse in 2 community samples: Implications for clinical practice. Archives of Internal Medicine 166(18):2020-2026.

[christine (imported)]

Completed the survey. Hopefully it will give others a better insight to the desire to be castrated (especially mtf transsexuals)

[Matthias (imported)]

I did it completely. unfortunately lost all answers. Is there a way to read a summery of what I was asked and what I answered?

[Kangan2008 (imported)]

I filled it out, but many of the questions seemed biased towards a specific (preconceived?) area about gender & body image issues. My reasons for castration were much more specific and had little in common with much of the survey. I tried to remedy this in the comments section at the end, although space was limited.... Feel free to contact me privately (email) for the rest of the story. I have *quite* a bit of insight into the how and why of my particular case. In my case castration brought about resolution of a major lifestyle issue that was threatening my future livelihood and wellbeing.... I am at peace now.

The Happy Eunuch.

[nutlessone (imported)]

I did it....! Completely !

[Lyssa-TV (imported)]

The survey certainly seemed narrow. I live in two modes: boy and girl. Many of the questions would be answered differently depending on which mode I happened to be in at the time. For example: my boy mode has happy height/weight, my girl mode is one foot too tall and 150 pounds too heavy.

[Razifrost (imported)]

that, was long.

[Nidaho Rachel (imported)]

Completed it the best I could answer. Like Lyssa-TV, my gender is fluid. I had trouble with answering some of the same questions.

[lookin2losecock (imported)]

Completed. Great survvey

[george2u2 (imported)]

In retrospect, I don't remember a question about orgasm frequency.

[mytyoyamada (imported)]

Completed the survey.

[iBorg317 (imported)]

I got so far in the survey and quit. I'm a medical eunuch. I had a spot on my pituraity gland which ended most of my hormone production. Even using Axiron (three pumps daily or 90 mg of testosterone) my numbers are still at the 240 level. People like me seem somewhat ignored by the survey.

[kristoff]

I got so far in the survey and quit. I'm a medical eunuch. I had a spot on my pituraity gland which ended most of my hormone production. Even using Axiron (three pumps daily or 90 mg of testosterone) my numbers are still at the 240 level. People like me seem somewhat ignored by the survey.

Actually, your response sheds light on areas that need further attention. It will be noted.

[nancydarkrosetv (imported)]

Actually, your response sheds light on areas that need further attention. It will be noted.

Interesting survey. Thanks for asking! Looking forward to see the results.