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Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:24 am
by experiment (imported)
I have noticed that a number of individuals just sort of move on and very little is heard from them after castration and all residual T is out of their body. Is there a possibility that after a male is castrated and he does not take any T replacement therapy there is little incentive to remain as active members of the Eunuch Archive?
As ones libido decreases I can see a decrease in interest in discussions and just a "moving on" for many castrated men. Perhaps with near zero T levels there is little of interest for them and the effects of the so called Eunuch calm take over? Just curious if anyone else has noticed the decrease in participation.
experiment
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 3:20 am
by kristoff
A lot of people come here simply because of voyeurism (my guess is about 95%). We let them in because it can educate the ill-informed or those with no understanding.
Of those who come here on serious business, a lot of them stay for a while, educate themselves, and leave when they are satisfied with their knowledge, taking their balls with them.
Of those who actually follow through and get castrated or nullified, or some variation thereof, a lot seem to stick around for a while and then fade away. For some it is a longer stay, while others may stick long enough to share their experience.
Of those who stay, they often pass along their experience, and realize the importance of this site, and educate and help folks to adjust. A number of us stick around a long time -- we are the data base that others can mine and question. And they are the ones who maintain this site and keep it up to date and safe.
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 5:27 am
by T van Keel
I think it's not a question whether someone still has T or he doesn't. Once you have reached the goal, or the goal isn't of interest anymore, there's simply no need anymore to visit this forum for information about the topic and so most people leave sooner or later. That's quite common, also in other forums with other topics. It's not a special thing related to castration.
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 6:50 am
by JesusA
The Eunuch Archive has been on-line since at least 1998. Over the years, many members have registered, received the information and support that they needed, and moved on with their lives. Our latest member, as I write, is the 122,282nd registration. There are currently 6,195 members registered, about 5% of all those who have ever registered. As Kristoff wrote, many are just here to read the Fiction Archive. Of the 6,195 registered members, only 731 (12%) have ever made even a single post. Most of those who read the bulletin boards are NOT registered members. At any given time there may be fewer than 5% of those reading who are actual members. At one point our ISP reported how many DIFFERENT IP addresses accessed the EA each month (no IP numbers, just number of different ones). Most months were over 100,000 different computers logged onto the EA.
I do know what has happened to some members. "Philip," who joined in 2004, posts once a year to keep his membership active. His autobiography on the Archive is well worth reading. The last time that I telephoned "Andrew," formerly our most active member, his answering machine reported that he was the active harem eunuch watching over his harem of rescue pussycats. When he left active membership he reported that he was just tired of answering the same questions over and over. The last Christmas card that I received from "TerryUK" noted that he had just celebrated his 84th birthday and was still a happy eunuch. That was about seven years ago and I have received no response to cards I've sent to him since. People move on for various reasons....
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 7:02 am
by Uncle Flo (imported)
I have not left EA although I am much less active in recent times. Some of my lack of activity can be attributed to old age and part to changing interests. That said I have no reason to leave the site. I was castrated 13 years ago and I have been a member much longer than that and I still have not lost interest in castration in all of it's many varieties. --FLO--
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:11 am
by Origen22 (imported)
I am not a eunuch but I know two eunuchs who eventually disliked their eunuch identity and remasculinized. They just wanted to just live as men . In both cases they were castrated at very early ages.
I should also mention there are now other websites with more open websites where topics late more broadly discussed without encouraging anything illegal.
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2020 9:22 pm
by Begoneboy (imported)
I was nullified for before this site even existed. Only discovered the Eunuch Archive 3 or so years ago. Since then have supported the site financially and with a number of posts. The EA is an important part of my life for its support and friendships developed here. I am very thankful for The site and it's members many different points of view, people come and go in every organization as each one has their own life agenda. That's what makes everything work.
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:55 am
by Evolve
I'm post op, coming up on five months. I'm still here and have no plans to leave/drop off. To me, this site is more than a means to the goal( Eunuch status/castration). It is about community and friendship within the brotherhood. It is also about promoting awareness of the community and legitimizing our needs in the medical field(s). My journey has only just begun.
I've been a member of this site since January and already, you all are like family to me.
-E-
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:21 am
by cutnbulls2ox (imported)
I m guessing most men are more curious than anything. They research a little on here just to find out what castration does to a man s body and mind. Where else are they going to ask anyone and get anywhere near as much correct castration information as they can confidentially read on here ?
For the men thinking of castration as a possibility, they gain a treasure trove of knowledge, facts, and other men s real life experiences on this great website. I have referred men here to find out solid factual information when they are considering a fantasy becoming reality.
For the men seriously considering getting castrated by choice or for medical necessity, this website gives them far more factual information and real life experiences and talented aftercare information and support than any dr ever could or would !
Its perfectly logical for the men successfully castrated to come here for research and to answer their questions and seek support through their pre surgery, surgery, and healing and eunuch adjustment process. Then, some time later, they are adjusted to their new life and have all of their questions answered. Likely their reduced libido makes any sex topics suddenly much less interesting or relevant in their lives. And their intense need, drives, and desires to be castrated are satisfied. They spend less time on sex related topics and shift their time into other topics in their new life as a eunuch. That makes perfect sense.
The vast majority of men and women on here are simply here to enjoy the topic and enjoy the incredible fiction stories in the EA archives. The site useage numbers are incredibly high for such a taboo and rarely discussed topic. But where else can they access such a goldmine of fiction stories of every kind on this subject ? This website is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in this subject.
I have known men who come in, research, get castrated, and then are never heard from again. Much like a surgeon s office would be. Once they get cut, they don t have much need or use for the surgeon after that. So they don t come around the surgeon s office after they are healed up.
This website is very much like a resource center for men considering if their interest is purely fantasy, or really considering getting cut, actively preparing for castration, or healing up and adjusting T dosages and beginning their new life as eunuchs. This website serves all of those men remarkably well.
Its great how most men can enjoy their fantasies on here in the fiction archives and do research on how far their own interest really takes them on here. And with no hassles or pressures or demands on them in using this site or the fiction archives.
I m surprised by how few people make any forum or story comments. I guess this is a very private topic for most users. But to each his own. That is a great beauty of this website. Men get to decide for themselves with no hassles.
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:29 am
by JockItch (imported)
I was castrated 7 yrs ago, and I still hang out
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:43 am
by JockItch (imported)
Just without my yamsac lol !
JockItch (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 2:29 am
I was castrated 7 yrs ago, and I still hang out
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:50 am
by Losethem (imported)
I'm one of the long term members, joining when the Eunuch Archive started way back when. My user registration number is only 3 digits long, while newer members are 6 digits. I can remember coming on when I was in my late 20's back around 1997-98, and I'm nearly 50 now. Before that we had the usenet groups, which I frequented since I was 24. So overall, I started interacting with the online eunuch community in the mid-1990's, long before Katie Couric made her somewhat famous comment on the Today Show, asking her producer, "What is Internet?"
I can clearly remember the first time I encountered a photo of a castrated man online, sometime around 1995. It was the first time I spontaneously ejaculated looking at a mere photo. Why? I found it extremely hot and, 2. it looked like what I felt was the right thing for me.
As a gay male, I found nothing hotter than to finally find a photo of a man who was like I wanted to be. I still have that photo on my computer... somewhere. Then came the first time I encountered a photo of a nullo... yet another spontaneous sexual event. He was the more famous then than now, NulloTom. Nobody has heard from him in years, perhaps he's passed on. My younger nullo friend (age 33 and nullified 4 years ago) found photos of NulloTom online when he was 14. He felt different than other boys and after seeing that photo had an overwhelming feeling of that is what would be right for him. He had finally encountered "correctness" in how his body was meant to be. He pursued it for 15 years until he finally achieved his goal and is happier now than he's ever been. Finding NulloTom online was a significant event in his coming of age.
I've been in the online eunuch world longer as a eunuch than I was as an intact man. I was here around 11 years intact, and now it's nearly 15 years as a eunuch, and just over 5 as a nullo.
I suppose some consider me the eunuchworld curmudgeon, and despite mellowing out A LOT since I was nullified, others still speak negatively of me on other sites despite that mellowing out as of late. It's quite frustrating. Guess I'll have to bear that cross forever.
The reason I stick around is to help folks who are just getting here and starting to navigate their reality and thinking they're the only guy out there who wants to remove his male parts and remain otherwise male. It's a lonely existence, I know from experience. There is a TON of inaccurate information floating around about what it is like to be a eunuch and/or nullo. Folks who have had these surgeries in reality are the fount of knowledge which Kristoff mentioned counteracting the inaccurate information people learn on the street.
What I can tell you is in 1994 this community, at least to the medical world, was operating as an underground institution, with most men who got something done to their bodies, having their various genital flesh removals done by people who were not classically trained in the medical arts (Read: People who are not medical doctors). We've gone from that environment in the 1990's, of desire for a life without testicles and/or penis, and having to resort to those underground people doing it for us, to 2020 where we have a choice of doctors who can do this for us, legitimately and above board. Granted, it's a small group of doctors who will help us, but it's a virtual stadium full of them compared to where we were 25 years ago.
Sadly, we still do not have a standards of care to help men like us navigate to a successful and healthy outcome, but at least we're no longer regarded as crazy by the medical community, so that's progress.
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:07 am
by GordonGG (imported)
Losethem (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:50 am
I suppose some consider me the eunuchworld curmudgeon, and despite mellowing out A LOT since I was nullified, others still speak negatively of me on other sites despite that mellowing out as of late. It's quite frustrating. Guess I'll have to bear that cross forever.
I'm curious about these other sites you mention. Can you point me to them?
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 2:05 am
by Origen22 (imported)
GordonGG (imported) wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2020 10:07 am
I'm curious about these other sites you mention. Can you point me to them?
The other sites have more verified eunuchs participating and seemly younger eunuchs. I guess aside from that on the other no one attempts to speak for all eunuchs and straight jacket the conversation into their own concepts. That site is by invitation, if I understand correctly
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 5:31 am
by seanthomas (imported)
I've been relatively inactive for months but still visit occasionally. I haven't had much time lately and haven't even updated my blog. Life sometimes gets in the way and just because I'm a Eunuch doesn't mean I free of all the daily hassles that leave you exhausted by days end and just wanting a still drink, mindless TV and sleep.
Re: Do Eunuchs just leave the EA after a long period of castration?
Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2020 5:56 am
by Supranatural (imported)
I intend to stay here. I have only experienced the eunuch calm erratically since my op due to being on TRT for a long time (I'm not now, but I'm trying to get back onto it). Eunuch related stuff is a bit of an interest of mine now, this site provides that.