posted January 20, 2005 08:10 PM         

Reno man taken to hospital after self-castration procedure

Staff Report
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
1/19/2005 10:23 pm




A 50-year-old Reno man told authorities he castrated himself to lower his libido and learned of the procedure on the Internet, police said.

Washoe Medical Center officials cited privacy issues on why they could not release any information on the man.

About 1:30 a.m. Monday, police said the man called 911 and asked for help because he could not stop the bleeding from a self-castration operation.

Reno police and medics responded to the man’s home near Brinkby Avenue and Robinhood Drive, and he was taken by ambulance to the hospital.

Hospital officials said the man successfully castrated himself, police reported. No further information was available.

“The man obviously needs some sort of counseling,” Reno police Lt. Ron Donnelly said.

posted January 22, 2005 12:40 PM         

Peace and Love

posted January 22, 2005 03:08 PM         

My guess was actually a deduction, based on reading, studying, talking with people who work with pedophiles, and even visiting a pedophilia building at a local state prison. They are kept separate from the other inmates. There is no cure for pedophilia. None. The only thing close is the lowering of the libido. There are pedophiles (though few, as many cannot admit they have done anything wrong) who come to aggreeing that their sexual desires are abberant in our western civilization, and try to do something pro-active to preempt themselves from their behavior.

My further deduction was that he didn't do this as a masochist, to feel pain as any sort of pleasure, but again, as a means to an end (the end being the lowering of the libido).

I'm not a psychologist. I've no idea what really went on in his mind, and prefaced my post with "My guess is..." And my further guess is that while he may or may not have been molested as a child, it doesn't really fit any patterned behavior that I'm aware of as an act in response to that molestation. This wasn't so much an act of self-harming, as it was, again, as an attempted means to an end (the lowering of the libido).

If there is someone here with first hand experience, perhaps he or she can share more with us.

But we all make assumptions and deductions, Moonshine, whether we like it or not. You assumed it was terribe for that person to harm himself, but if he was trying to keep himself from molesting children, then it's not so terrible, is it? It may have been painful, he may have performed it incorrectly, but he was trying to achieve a higher good.

posted April 14, 2005 08:12 AM         

- Matthew 19;12

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.