How might I go about being castrated?

Uh, hyperbole much?

Seriously - if you feel that you absolutely must do something, do NOT do it yourself or get some shady unqualified person to do it. You might damage other things, or get an infection, or bleed to death, or God knows what else.

I would speak to your doctor - both psychiatrist and GP.

Is chemical castration permanent? I was under the impression it wasn't.

No, Loni. That is NOT hyperbole. I've had a bone in my arm snapped, and a swift kick to the nads is at least a dozen times worse. Cutting them off by yourself, with no anesthetic, presumably with just a regular knife as opposed to a scalpel, would be a form of torture so bad that even the most brutal of psychopaths refrains from it.

edited 29th Apr '11 9:01:13 PM by Diamonnes

I highly doubt that. Worse than breaking your arm, OK, I'll buy that. Worse than "any pain any creature could suffer ever"? No.

Seriously, animals get castrated with knives all the time and they're up and walking about in no time.

It's not the same man.

IT'S NOT THE SAME.

You can't compare the suffering of a beast to the suffering of a man.

edited 29th Apr '11 9:34:03 PM by joeyjojo

But man is a beast. Just a very smart one. Though animals have us beat in many ways.

I'm sure there are much, much worse forms of torture than castration.

Though I'm sure there's a big psychological aspect to getting your balls cut off.

I'm an abolitionist about animal use. Very anti-speciesist too. Biology doesn't matter, it's sentience that counts.

Depends how your cutting them off, if you were to do a home job it would be pretty much the worst pain possible outside of some very horrific horror movies.

I wasn't thinking so much about cutting it off. I was relying on this source about DIY castration mostly. [1]

*Sees the picture on the page*

BARF

edited 29th Apr '11 10:12:20 PM by NexusCell

You're a vegan, this explains things a tad.

Man is a social animal and insecure one at that. 

A farmyard beast which loses its testicles will bleat for a while and going back to his grazing.

A man who loses his testicles has lost part of his physical identity and manhood.

Why do you want to be rid of that so badly love happiness?

edited 29th Apr '11 10:29:23 PM by joeyjojo

I have several questions relating to that page, but the first that come to mind are "Why does this exist?", "Why did I read it?", and, of course, "Did they really have to mention the idea of eating the castrated testicles?"

Spoilered for Squick.

I think the issue is that he doesn't like that part of his identity and wants to be rid of it. But I don't think that it's even likely to do that properly.

However, I was speaking of purely physical pain, not psychological.

edited 29th Apr '11 10:40:03 PM by LoniJay

FWIW, Love, if your doctor is at all ethical, they're almost outright guaranteed to make you go to a therapist first before performing any sort of castration, in instances where it's not needed for an actual physical illness.

I really would just, well, go do that instead.

edited 29th Apr '11 10:50:29 PM by Jeysie

There's a few questions I'd like to ask to help with the context for this decision.

1: How old are you?

2: For how long have you wanted this procedure?

3: Who have you consulted about it?

4: Why do you feel castration is necessary?

edited 29th Apr '11 10:53:01 PM by thatguythere47

What the fuck dude...

your loss...

edited 29th Apr '11 11:08:30 PM by KShade

Love, please ask your doctor to refer you to a therapist. If it's sexual urges that you're worried about, there is cognitive therapy available that can help you deal with those without the need to physically alter yourself; and if there are genderqueer issues here (i.e., you really don't want to be biologically / sexually male or active), medical professionals are obligated to either help you with those or refer you on to somebody who can. Chemical castration might be on the cards eventually if that's what you really want, but please get yourself seen to psychologically first to make sure there are no underlying issues that are coming out as frustration with your body.

And to n-th what everybody else is saying, please, please for the love of God don't cut your genitals off.

Piss off the wrong kind of woman.

/serious mode.

Don't.

I'm sure other tropers have/will give better and more comprehensive advice.

And I'm sure all of it will amount to in the simple form of.

Don't.

You have some issues if you're considering such a thing.

Even if you were using the excuse, "But my religion told me to!"

The first step would be to ask for advice from people who actually respect your wishes, not people who are guaranteed to try to dissuade you.

Everything everyone has said. Castration is a very life changing decision and I would advice anyone to not take it without being absolutely sure what they are doing.

Most mental injuries can be healed to some extent. Most diseases can be cured. A severed body part will never grow back.

It would help if he didn't ask for a How-To on self mutilation D:

Sorry Love Happiness but if you're going to post messed up psychological stuff like this all you're going to get is people to telling you to see a therapist.

I for one have to agree with them.

edited 30th Apr '11 1:26:00 AM by joeyjojo

Have we established why the hell Love Happiness wants to do this in the first place?

Well, I don't have anything against castration on the whole, if it's something that would actually improve someone's situation.

But I both one, don't think it's what Love needs in particular based on what he's shared here, and two, self-mutilation is so very not the way to go about doing it even if it is what he needs.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13036851080A07132500

edited 30th Apr '11 1:35:22 AM by Jeysie