Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses use of the testicles: the male gonad. Surgical castration is bilateral orchiectomy (excision of both testicles), while chemical castration uses pharmaceutical drugs to deactivate the testes. Some forms of castration cause sterilization (permanently preventing the castrated person or animal from reproducing); it ...
What happens when men are castrated? Castration, the surgical removal of the testicles, leads to profound and often irreversible physiological and psychological changes in men, primarily due to the dramatic reduction in testosterone production.