When my post-op pathology unexpectedly came back Gleason 9 with positive margins I was told to expect radiation and two years of chemical castration (ADT). This did not please me and I joined HealingWell to complain, which I did, a lot. Freudian psychoanalysts often talk about
castration anxiety. I suffer from that sometimes. One of the things that sets me off is castration. So I had that very much on my mind as I was looking for a screen name.
I am, by profession, a computer jockey and I spent some time trying to find a funny moniker that combined computer programming with castration. And, no, I an not of the opinion that the world would be a better place if those things were combined more often. The funniest one I came up with was "BSD Eunuchs" (BSD Unix being the operating system on which Apple's OS X is based) but that was rather obscure and would compel us to spend time explaining why we are plural, and besides, when I typed in "BSD Eunuchs" my spelling checker changed it to "Peter DisAbelard."
OK, the spell check thing didn't happen.
I Googled a bit for famous Eunuchs but, of course, who else is there besides Peter Abelard? He was the Dos Equis most interesting man in the twelfth century world, a rock star theologian, a philisopher, and a noted lover before his girl friend's* uncle hired men to set upon him and castrate him.
Here is an illustration that shows the awful event. I always flash back to that first Lupron shot when I look at this engraving, although it probably didn't take six guys to hold me down.
The "Dis" part is a low, slightly crass pun. It's beneath me, I know, but without all the things that are beneath me what would hold me up?
*
Peter and Heloise were secretly married and had a son who they named Astrolabe.