New age eunuchs: Motivation and rationale for voluntary castration

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 433-442

  Wassersug, Richard J ^a   Zelenietz, Sari A ^a   Squire, G Farrell ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Arbody   (United States)

Author keywords

castration; eunuch; fetish; Internet; orchiectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTOMUTILATION; CASTRATION; FANTASY; FETISHISM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIBIDO; LITERATURE; MALE; MOTIVATION; ORCHIECTOMY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FANTASY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERNET; LIBIDO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; ORCHIECTOMY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX EDUCATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4344611062     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ASEB.0000037424.94190.df     Document Type: Review

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