Deconstruction of the Penis

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Grindr may provide men with some relief from their anxiety and depression. But it’s temporary.

For some users I talked to, the allure of Grindr was not just the rush to feel good. It was to stop feeling bad. Users told me they log on when they feel sad, anxious, or lonely. Grindr can make those feelings go away. The attention and potential for sex distract from painful emotions.

A staggering number of gay men suffer from depression, with some estimates as high as 50 percent. Because gay men’s anxiety and depression often stem from childhood rejection for being gay, messages of affirmation from other gay men are particularly appealing. Unfortunately, these messages are typically only skin-deep: “Hey man, cute pic. Looking to ****?”

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CORRECTION: There are FIVE guys who died trying a burdizzo castration, just from the experience of one paramedic quoted below. I can't even imagine what the numbers are globally. The burdizzo is barbaric and extremely dangerous, and its time the castration / eunuch community stops fetishizing and normalizing it. By the way, the death rate from modern castration performed by a medical doctor is less than .1%, in other words its 99.9% safe.

As its done underground and its victims often disappear and go unreported, there is no way to guess what the true risk of burdizzo castration is, but if you are considering it I would conservatively estimate your risk of major complications requiring hospitalization are probably 33%, and your chance of death is probably between 5% and 10% depending on your age, health and luck. And patients who self harm are commonly committed to a period of involuntary psychiatric evaluation.

OK there's a grey zone in the world of castration, and that is the underground, dangerous and illegal procedures many men have resorted to for lack of other options.  And there are some communities that actually fetishize extreme means of getting castrated, for example by Burdizzo, a clamp designed for the castration of animal livestock.

Because many HAVE been successful in "killing" their testicles this way, it seems to be accepted in some quarters of the eunuch community that going this route is an acceptable option.  

The problem is nobody ever hears about the attempts that have failed, and the person dies. I did some Googling to see just what the dangers of Burdizzo castration might be, and here is just ONE quote about it:

"As a professional Paramedic with 28 years experience DO NOT USE THAT DEVICE!!! I have run across seven guys who tried to use it and two died as a result of infection and (3) of massive blood loss. DO NOT USE IT!!! THROW IT AWAY NOW!! You will run the risk of NEVER getting SRS if you use this device. Insurance will only cover saving your life which is what you are risking. You use it and you will never be the same if you survive. You need to listen to me on this." -- Jessica from Susans.org

From Eunuch.org thread on Burdizzo castration:

"There are a couple guys that have claimed to have used it successfully (I'm skeptical) and lots of guys with bad experiences. Basically, you are very likely to rupture the blood supply and have your scrotum fill up with blood -- I know it happened to me. It is also painful, causes problems with the scrotum as well (basically kills the skin where you do the clamping)." Jesaispas, 1/9/2010

"Shortly after Bill's failed self-castration attempt with a burdizzo, he was brought to the hospital for surgery where he died."" -- MRT, 1/15/10

Burdizzo, if "successful" causes "dry gangrene" inside of your body, which is tissue death. The human body does not like dead tissue inside, and it will often mount a massive immune response to internal dying tissue.  The other extreme risk of burdizzo castration is that you are creating coagulated blood and destroyed veins and arteries, and once a clot gets into the circulatory system it can migrate into the lungs and cause sudden death.

The other factor with Burdizzo use is the extreme pain it causes. For some perhaps this is a sadomasochistic fantasy, but passing out from off the chart pain while being mutilated by a tool designed for animal castration doesn't sound like a day in the park to me.

There are predators on the internet who encourage men to engage in acts of self mutilation such as the Burdizzo which is actually quite dangerous. They also sell and make money off videos of young men giving themselves self castrations and penectomies, and never report the suicidal aftermath of such an extreme act.  

So to the eunuchs or guys reading this that think burdizzo should be an acceptable part of the eunuch community: YOU are part of the problem, not the solution to easy, affordable access to castration for men.  As more men come forward to therapists and request castration as part of M2E transition, the legal options open up for safe castration for all.   As long as guys are going to fetish websites and risking their lives for castration, it will continue to brand the entire movement as desperate, psychotic individuals who need psychiatric observation.

There actually is a "right" way for men to get voluntary castration, and if I could get it anybody can. I will never understand those who out of sheer laziness or ignorance or for a quick thrill place their entire life in danger. Its just not worth it.

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