Hello all, my name is Martin. I live in Illinois. I am married. I am a recovering sex addict. I have talked with my wife and marriage counselor about having my testicles removed, bilateral orchiectomy to lower and or simply eliminate my sex drive/libido. My wife is supportive and all for it especially with the side effects of having a bilateral orchiectomy. Our marriage counselor is supportive of it as well. I have done my research about it honestly looking forward to that calming effect I have read a lot of people talking about. Any who, through my research of what to expect, the pros and cons of the procedure a lot of links were coming up about sex offenders, prostate cancer, and Male to female transgender. So, no I am NOT a sec offender, and I do not have prostate cancer. As I continued to research my thought process was also thinking, castration removes testosterone in the body, some places I have researched mentioned how the human body does need some source of hormone to prevent certain things that would occur in the body. I didnt want to take testosterone because I feel that would be taking a huge step back so figured since I am out of the reproductive gene pool might as well continue moving forward and choose the female hormone replacement therapy. Keep in mind I am still a man. I have talked with my wife who again is still very supportive. As she mentioned, she has a low sex drive to begin with, and says that we are true soul mates, that we can please one another to a sexual climax in other ways. That this shows you (me) it is purely love we have between us that keeps us together. I am 45 by the way. So that is a snippet of me and who I am, what I will be doing down the road. Also wonder if there are other recovering sex addicts who have gone down and or chosen the same path as I am embarking on.
