Title: My Life as a Eunuch - SF Weekly
Headings: My Life as a Eunuch
My Life as a Eunuch
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Content: After decades of obsessing over his balls and a botched attempt at cutting them off that could have killed him, he was finally castrated in 1994. For legal reasons “Gelding,” age 54, didn't want his real name used for this story. But he's a legendary figure in the eunuch subculture, where he acts as a kind of den mother for the genitally obsessed, someone to whom a man can turn when he decides the cojones need to go. In the past four years, he's counseled some 4,000 men. He also acts as a broker between cutters and potential cuttees, and, less frequently, performs the surgery himself. “I know what's involved,” he says. “ One of the reasons why I am doing this is to help other guys avoid the problems. In that respect it is humanitarian. In another respect I will admit to a certain amount of sexual excitement from the whole idea.” Castration is a time-honored tradition.