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Miss Poubelle's friend Sig has had a broad experience with the range of gay male sexuality. But even Sig was surprised when he met a big Quebecois trucker who wanted to be punched in the nuts. Sig began with a few tentative slaps, but given the evident pleasure this produced in his partner, he soon found himself engaged in some heavy testicular abuse. Eventually the Canadian produced a thundering orgasm, emptying his abused balls of a huge load.

For most men, the intense and sickening pain associated with rough treatment of the nuts is the furthest thing from a turn on. But given the almost unlimited erotic potential of the human mind, it should come as little surprise that some men have learned to become aroused by having their balls slapped, punched, or kicked.

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Perhaps some of the erotic charge comes from the frequency in which punches to the nuts are a part of adolescent male aggression. Miss Poubelle remembers gym classes where a guy would pound his fist into another's crotch, shouting "cup check" in the process. The idea was that if a guy was wearing a cup, the punch wouldn't do any damage. But since teenage boys rarely wear cups during gym class, the usual result was a victim curled up on the floor in pain.

Nut-punching was a form of bullying in Miss Poubelle's high school, and she suspects that this was common in other schools as well. Eroticizing the bully is a common theme in gay sexuality, and for many men testicular abuse may be a turn-on due to their experiences with bullies. In the lingo of personal ads, a desire for this kind of treatment is usually called cock and ball torture, abbreviated CBT.

Given the relative frequency with which personal ads express an interest in CBT, perhaps we should not be surprised that there are some men whose desires for testicular punishment extend to having their balls cut off. This would seem to be the ultimate form of CBT. At www.eunuch.org, one can read a variety of personal ads from those who wish to be castrated during an act of sex.

It is perhaps revealing, however, that very few ads seem to be from those who have actually gone all the way. This might suggest that for most visitors to or members of www.eunuch.org, castration is mostly a fantasy which they will probably never act out. It might alternately suggest that once the operation has been done, the newly ball-less don't have much interest in further participation in the eunuch scene. Perhaps the most perverse thing at the eunuch.org site is a long work of eunuch fiction in which Harry Potter agrees to have his balls cut off to become a more powerful wizard!

While voluntary eunuchs are a largely invisible part of American society, eunuchs are much more visible in places like India. Most Indian eunuchs belong to a group called the hijra, who recruit young men to join them and submit to castration. Eunuchs have a somewhat mixed status in Indian society. Some portions of traditional society view them as quasi-auspicious figures who have the power to bestow an important blessing on the birth of a child. However, society often views hijras with suspicion or contempt as well. Hijras often arrive uninvited at a household and refuse to leave until they have been given food, drink, or offerings.

In India, eunuchs have become surprisingly involved in the political process and have won elections in a number of districts. Since corruption and nepotism are frequent problems in Indian politics, voters appear to view eunuchs are less potentially corruptible than other candidates since they typically have no families to favor. In 1996, a eunuch ran unsuccessfully for Parliament under the slogan: "You don't need genitals for politics. You need brains."

Since Miss Poubelle supports the rights of people to do anything they like with their bodies, she firmly believes that anyone who wants to have himself castrated should have the right to do so. But she wonders whether such a fetish veers so close to pathological that prospective eunuchs should seek psychiatric advice before proceeding. Politics may not require genitals, but the best chance of happiness for most people will come from a happy relationship between our genitals and our brains.