Why do men get castrated?

Answer 1

a man's sex drive is very intense and takes up a huge amount of time to satisfy, people who are very focused on a career or cause may consider castration because it allows them to peruse other aspects of the human experience.

Answer 2

There is no medical reason for circumcision, and in fact it can be associated with adverse events including bleeding, pain, and infection. Every year there are cases of severe injury or even amputation to the penis during circumcision. While death is very rare from circumcision, it can occur following infection.

because people don't pull back the flap to clean the head of their penis and get infected.

During WWII there was a large number of cases of serious infection in the pacific theater; many cases involved the male genitalia. This was probably more due to war wounds, sexual liberties, and the warm humid conditions soldiers had to endure (crawling and sleeping in the mud). However to put a 'better' spin on things the 'health authorities of the day' blamed failure to circumcise as the main cause, shifting blame from the war to ordinary civilians. The resulting 'fad' continues to this day. I had to insist quite vigorously to keep my wife and her doctor from mutilating my son.

PS the word mutilation is used by Canada's crc childrens rights council maybe US should too?

Answer 3

You do not need to be circumcised. The main concern when men are not circumcised is making sure you keep the the foreskin clean.

Some men get circumcised for religious reasons, others for cultural reasons, and some because of the medical benefit.

Both Jewish and Muslim religions commonly circumcise, and in certain regions it is a cultural norm for the person to be circumcised, while in others it is not.

Circumcision does help to prevent the incidence of some diseases, but some people feel that the benefit is not worth the procedure.

Answer 4

Medically, castration (removal of the testicles) can be used to treat testicular cancer or to reduce testosterone levels, usually as a treatment for prostate cancer.

Historically, it has been used to calm violent behavior, as a punishment or to render a male sexually impotent (usually to guard female members of the royal family).

Answer 5

As uncomfortable as it sounds, the answer is yes; sometimes willingly.

Reasons for castration include:

• Punishment for crimes such as adultery or infidelity.

• As a mark of slavery; this also ensured that the victims would never develop the physique to mount a successful rebellion.

• As a requirement to accept certain court positions, such as master of a harem or service in the Imperial palace. These people were/are called eunuchs (pronounced like the word Unix).

• To prevent the onset of puberty from changing the pitch of their singing voice. Because this was most prevalent in the huge church choirs of Italy, such people are known by the Italian word castrati (singular: castrato).

Over the course of human civilization, there are no hard and fast numbers as to how many people (willingly or unwillingly) suffered this particular form of disfiguration; but a quick estimate puts the tally somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000.

This is even more impressive when you consider that the vast bulk of these mutilations occurred before the end of the 19th century; the practice began being outlawed or discouraged worldwide around 1910, and is almost never seen today.

Answer 6

the main reason for Male circumcision is today is religious/cultural the majority of men that are circumcised are men that are Muslims. They took up the tradition as a result of the Jewish old torah which many Jews believe represents the will of God. It is also done in various more primitive tribal situations throughout the world where it is part of a rite of passage ritual when manhood is made official.

It became popular for a time in English speaking cultures around the time of Queen Victoria from 1850 on as a result of the idea British medics had that masturbation was the cause of a myriad of diseases. Circumcision has the effect of making the penis less pleasurable so it was reasoned that the removal of the prepuce would reduce masturbation and thereby reduce disease

When normal boy is born the the foreskin is fused to the glans of the penis leaving only the very end open to allow him to urinate. In time the glans become separated from the inner lining of the foreskin until the foreskin is completely separate and with some handling becomes capable of being pulled back and forth completely exposing the glans penis.

The need for circumcision is extremely rare and no particular care is required to keep the penis clean. any suggestion that the intact penis is in anyway a hazard to health is no more then an ill informed myth.

So to sum up unless one assumes that religious instruction is a good reason for the genital mutilation of infants and boys there is no need or reason for it.

Answer 7

To ensure sterility or as a torture tactic meant to demean a person.

Answer 8

Because we have a certain affinity to our genitals.