Thailand Outlaws Cosmetic Castration

[Earl]

Thailand are cracking down on teenage boys that can't afford a full sex-change operation, and instead choose to just have their cock and bollocks chopped off in a cheap 15-minute operation!

Having your crown jewels removed doesn't sound like a quick operation to me, they must be fucking mental.

Thailand Bans Cosmetic Castration | The Morningstarr*

[Gemo52]

This is one way, used by hijras in India.

According to a case in Salunke's article reported in Illustrated Weekly of India (8 August 1976), the following procedure was adopted. A hijra explains:

"I was lifted by four hijras and put on a heap of ashes. They held me tight, while the rest (of the hijras) kept on singing and dancing in the adjoining hall. The drumbeats now rose to a frenzy. The old hijra came to me and seized my genitals with his left hand, and with his right hand, slit the bamboo lath in the centre, running it down quite close to my pubis. The slit firmly held my genital at the root. The burly hijra ran down his sharp razor along the face of the lath and removed my penis, testicles and scrotum in one swoop. Leaving a large bleeding wound. Soon another hijra poured boiling oil to stanch the bleeding. The wound was covered with a rag soaked in warm oil."

[Earl]

Sounds like a walk in the park!

[lohi1]

Bloody hell!

[timey]

I saw a programme about this once on TV. In India it is quite common to get this done in the way described in Gemo's post. Mind, you they can't walk for about a week afterwards, so they must be pretty sure that this is what they really want.

[lohi1]

Why would anybody want to do that?

[timey]

They want to be women, I guess.

Removing the old meat and two veg is, let’s face it, the first major step to becoming a lady and typically highly desired for any man wanting to stop being a man.

[Alpha]

Ouch!

[lohi1]

Still! Self mutilation is not the way to do it!

[Gemo52]

My mate's been cursing me ever since I told him about hijras. He's been having nightmares about it. I was going to look up other ways of carrying out the operation – John Irving describes a method using a rope in A Son of the Circus – maybe I'd best not tell him about my finds.