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From: w.p.coyne@uk.ac.newcastle
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Subject: Eunuchs, Castration and Erections
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Date: 10 Apr 91 07:40:24 GMT
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       Eunuchs, Castrastion and Erections 
      OR Improve your sex live with one swift cut :-)
 
In Tom Burnam's "The Dictionary of Misinformation", copyright 1975 he has
a paragraph on eunuchs and erections.
He says that provided the castration involves removal only of the testicles
and takes place after puberty then they can have them.  He also says that it
was reported that in ancient Rome women preferred them as lovers because there
was no risk of pregnancy and because they were able to maintain an erection
longer than uncastrated males.

I was under the inpression that castration removed sexual desire, and the
penis would cease to be able to erect?

 
Is it true that eunuchs can maintian erections for longer?
If so people should know, especially those people who are helping drive the
rhino to extinction, in their demand for rhino horn :-)
 
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