Castration: DISCUSSION

[bernie]

To begin with: I love castrated transsexuals, especially those with medium sized dicks, tiny natural tits and a slightly chubby figure. Orchiectomy has ? in contrast to sex reassignment surgery (SRS) ? the advantage of retaining the penis and therewith a more or less marked ?male? sexual reaction. Isn?t it the ?male? in the ? otherwise feminised ? transsexual that turns us on? It?s it the possibility of sucking a dick in a ?woman? and/or the chance to be fucked by a ?woman? that makes the trans?sexuals so precious to us. Inasmuch as SRS takes most of this preciousness away, castration retains most of it while still leaving us with a likewise feminised individual. Orchiectomy makes e.g. tucking much easier and our transsexual loved ones may wear tight pants and jeans, or even one-piece swimsuits, without having to fear uncovering. Castration puts the transsexual both physically and mentally in an intermediate position between ?male? and ?female?, with advantages and disadvantages of both of them without actually belonging to either side.
And of course it?s true that castration has a lot of advantages compared to intense and long term consumption of hormones and antihormones (hormone blockers). Especially when taken in form of pills, liver damages is one of the main problems incurred by that.
But there are many other aspects of castration (bilateral orchiectomy):
 Often referred to is the fact, that your cum is different (clear) and less in terms of quantity. That?s because cum is only partly produced in the balls (testes) and the rest in produced in the prostate gland, and that part is the relatively clear liquid.
 The balls aren?t the only producer of testosterone in the male body, although they are by far the main producer. The adrenal glands actually do produce ca 5 % of the testosterone. That means that castration does not completely determine the production of male hormones.
 Hormones do not only have a wide influence on the human body but also on the human mind (psyche). With certain reservations you can safely say that the effects of castration in a male body and mind are in a way similar to the changes during the climacteric period in women. This is underlined by the observation that elderly castrated men tend to develop a matronly appearance.
 (Long term) physical effects are ? some more, some less pronounced:
o Loss of muscle mass, especially in the arms and subsequent loss of physical strength (due to modified proteolysis muscles [not only in the arms] will eventually evolve into connective tissue)
o Redistribution of body fat according to a more female pattern (due to modified lipid metabolism). Hips, buttocks, mons pubis, thighs, upper arms, torso ? especially breasts ? will develop more fat tissue, the figure will by tendency shape up from male ?apple? to female ?pear? (and thereby sometimes become portly)
o body hair will become fewer and finer and pubic hair growth will align to the female triangle
(Beard growth will in nearly all cases not be affected; here depilation is definitely needed)
o Hair growth on scull will in contrast increase; boldness is either stopped or even reduced
o Reduction of (manly) body odour
o Tenderisation of the skin; body skin will become more fine pored
 Sexual effects will be
o Immediate and complete loss of reproductiveness (balls are the only producer of sperms)
o Because of failure of most of testosterone production, sex drive will decline in due course
o Frequency, duration and intensity of erections will decline as well
(In both cases this does greatly depend on the individual?s predisposition. If you indulged in intense and continuous sexual activities ? and be it masturbation ? prior to orchiectomy, your chance of retaining most of your libido and erection-ability is much more probable than if not. On the other side even complete disappearance of sex drive and total inability of erection may [gradually] occur)
 Lack of testosterone does not only lead to physical and sexual consequences but may also lead to changes in mind, emotions and character. It will make you (as a rule and in the long run)
o less aggressive
o tendentially docile and submissive
o more sentimental and in need of affection
o susceptible to mood swings
o more thin-skinned and touchy
o more inclined to burst into tears over trivialities and
o contingent to spells of depression
 In all, one can safely say, that orchiectomy has ? as for transsexuals ? both pleasant and unpleasant implications of which ? in my opinion ? the more pleasant are by far in majority.
But ? as has been pointed out elsewhere ? sustainable feminisation implicates still the persistent and regular intake of female hormones even though on a clearly reduced level ? in spite of and additional to orchiectomy.
And to belie contrary reports: many (if not most) of the transsexual models and performers in the so-called ?adult industry? need auxiliary pharmaceutical agents to get and/or maintain an erection, including many of those who ?only? take hormones and never had an orchiectomy (so informed insiders state).

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Originally Posted by bernie

... Isn’t it the ‘male’ in the – otherwise feminised – transsexual that turns us on? It’s it the possibility of sucking a dick in a ‘woman’ and/or the chance to be fucked by a ‘woman’ that makes the trans?sexuals so precious to us. Inasmuch as SRS takes most of this preciousness away, castration retains most of it while still leaving us with a likewise feminised individual. Orchiectomy makes e.g. tucking much easier and our transsexual loved ones may wear tight pants and jeans, or even one-piece swimsuits, without having to fear uncovering. Castration puts the transsexual both physically and mentally in an intermediate position between ‘male’ and ‘female’, with advantages and disadvantages of both of them without actually belonging to either side. ..."

Your post has been moved to the appropriate thread, i.e., this "Castration: DISCUSSION" thread. It had been in Freebies. Most of what you write has already been stated in this discussion thread.

I want to concentrate, though, on the part of your long post that I quote just above. It is not acceptable to put quotation marks around the word WOMAN as you have done. This is ungendering. Read here:

http://forum.transladyboy.com/showthread.php?t=7311

Ungendering is not allowed on this site. I hope yours is unintentional, and that you do not see the world this way. I also hope that some of our transwomen members will chime in to remind all of us how disrespectful it is to write things in a way that suggests they are any less women than any other women -- as the use of quotation marks clearly does.