Title: My Life as a Eunuch - SF Weekly
Headings: My Life as a Eunuch
My Life as a Eunuch
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Content: Today, short of cancer or a desire to become a woman surgically, there is no medical reason to get emasculated. It's certainly not something you can brag about at the class reunion. Even as an extreme punitive measure for sex offenders, castration is looked down upon. All of that makes Gelding a figure of considerable intrigue. Not that you'd know it by looking at him. He stands 5-foot-9 or so and has a beefy build, a trim goatee going gray around the edges, and close-cropped hair. He's openly gay, prefers bottom but will be a top when the situation arises, and calls himself a “bear” because of an impressive crop of body hair. Conversations with him cover a lot of ground, from computer-programming languages to ball torture, from chaos theory to bull ejaculators. ( Gelding's verdict on the fourth: “ Interesting but not particularly pleasurable.”)