The North Carolina Castration Case
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In Waynesville North Carolina, Richard Sciara who calls himself Master Rick and his associates have been arrested for offering men voluntary castration (a felony even if consensual).
Even sympathetic shrinks are baffled by the castration fetish:
“The people who I have seen who have undergone voluntary castration have been psychotic and often in the grip of a delusion that their sexual organs were causing them to behave in evil ways,” said Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.
“And they felt that to rid themselves of that evil, it was necessary to rid themselves of their sexual organs,” said Appelbaum, a past president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Robert McDonald, an Asheville psychologist with 21 years’ experience, said he’s never heard of voluntary castration as part of sadomasochism, and that it doesn’t seem to fit because S&M behavior tends to be an ongoing lifestyle.
“I can’t imagine an experience that’s relatively this brief and that would change one’s being and behavior for such a long time being worth it,” said McDonald, who also serves as the vice chair of the N.C. Association for the Management and Treatment of Sexual Offenders.
I guess orchidectomy is just about the ultimate power exchange.
Possibly these men could’ve satisfied their psychological compulsions though feminization … ?
3 charged in castrations in Haywood ‘dungeon’
The story of Master Rick, the now infamous North Carolina provider of free castrations, continues in the headlines.
Bill Leslie, a lawyer for [Danny] Reeves, insisted that his client had “absolutely nothing to do with” the surgeries, but asserted that the castrations were not related to sadomasochism.
“Our position is it’s certainly not a sexual gratification thing,” he said. Asked if they were performed on men seeking sex changes, he said, “Our position is that’s not the reason either.”
He declined to elaborate. …
Bill Jones, the lawyer for Mendez, said it was incorrect to refer to the castrated men as victims.
“I would hesitate to use that word. Even what the police are saying is that this was consensual,” he said
Both lawyers are going to have a hard time with the jury.
Prosecutor: While cameras rolled, N.C. trio castrated willing men
Dan Savage offers his view:
But some castration fetishists, as we’ve seen in North Carolina, actually do have their balls cut off. While I believe that folks have a right to do what they like with their own bodies, I don’t think a castration fetish is a desire that should be indulged — and certainly not by a non-medical professional winging it in a dungeon in Bumfuck, N.C. Castration cannot be regarded as safe or sane, and even if someone agrees to it — heck, even if they long for it — castration is so extreme that consent to castration has to be regarded as evidence of a man being of unsound mind, and therefore incapable of giving his consent, at least until a qualified shrink and licensed doc determine otherwise.
Earlier: Master Rick’s Castration Service