# Man castrates self after rugby game. (TMI.) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322 "2005-11-16T16:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/1 "2005-11-16T16:13:58Z")
Apparently so. He claimed he’d do it, and [he did it!](http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking-news/rugby-fan-cant-explain-cutting-out-testicles/2005/11/16/1132016820398.html?oneclick=true) Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/2 "2005-11-16T16:28:53Z")
What the high holy fuck is wrong with this guy? ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/3 "2005-11-16T16:33:03Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > What the high holy fuck is wrong with this guy? A lot. Forget having kids, he likely won’t be able to please the missus, either. Wonder if he’ll get the prosthetics like they make for dogs? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/4 "2005-11-16T16:45:04Z")
There’s no way in hell I’d let a guy who’d do something like this adopt a kid either. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/5 "2005-11-16T16:50:19Z")
Hmm…the first time I clicked, it wanted me to login. I try again, I can see it just fine. Just in case others can’t get it to work without a log in, here’s a link to [BugMeNot](http://www.bugmenot.com). ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/6 "2005-11-16T16:59:21Z")
Sorry, I forgot to mention it. Beside the login is a “free entry” button. You have to see an ad, but in the upper right-hand corner is a “skip ad” button, so it’s not too much of a pain. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/7 "2005-11-16T17:03:58Z")
And he did this because his team **won**?!? 😕 :eek: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/8 "2005-11-16T17:08:56Z")
Dude’s got… er… _had_ balls. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/9 "2005-11-16T17:11:16Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > What the high holy fuck is wrong with this guy? Beer. :rolleyes: :smack: Next question. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/10 "2005-11-16T17:16:59Z")
Somebody give that man a Darwin Award. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/11 "2005-11-16T17:25:29Z")
If it were a rugby player, I wouldn’t be so surprised. I mean, I love rugby players, but they are a breed apart. But a rugby fan? it boggles. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/12 "2005-11-16T17:42:23Z")
There are men who (for whatever reason) have an overwhelmingly strong compulsion to castrate themselves. I suspect this incident and the self mutliators breezy attitude about being castrated speak more to something he wanted to do and found a convenient excuse to go for it. Plus the horrific description of how much work he had to put into with a blunt pair fo snips speaks to more than just intoxication being the prime mover in this (IMO). ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/13 "2005-11-16T17:44:28Z")
That poor sonofabitch. Temporary insanity anyone? ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/14 "2005-11-16T17:49:52Z")
Wow, a man who can keep a promise. The rarest kind! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/15 "2005-11-16T18:08:41Z")
😕 Serious deja vu going on here. I was just sure the thread itself was a Lazarus thread, raised from the dead, that someone had appended a new post to. I mean, I’m _sure_ I read about the same thing happening awhile back and that I read about it first on an older SDMB thread. (sports fan, statement to other sports fans in bar, specified sports-outcome condition is met, does the deed at home and staggers to bar to show them, everyone freaks, doctor says it’s amazing he could walk that far w/o passing out from blood loss…any of this ringing a bell for anyone else?) ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/16 "2005-11-16T18:09:20Z")
All together, now: Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! OY! OY! OY! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/17 "2005-11-16T18:46:32Z")
Aha, the article _did_ say it happened in February… bingo! [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302480&highlight=testicles](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=302480&highlight=testicles) ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/18 "2005-11-16T18:49:09Z")
heh. If someone kicks him in the balls he can just stand there with a wicked grin on his face. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/19 "2005-11-16T19:07:22Z")
> [@astro](#): > > There are men who (for whatever reason) have an overwhelmingly strong compulsion to castrate themselves. I suspect this incident and the self mutliators breezy attitude about being castrated speak more to something he wanted to do and found a convenient excuse to go for it. I remember reading that there was something of an epidemic of self-castration in Nineteenth Century America. Boston Corbett, the “Jack Ruby of the Lincoln assassination” (that is, the man who shot John Wilkes Booth) was a self-castrator. (Or should I say self-castratee? I guess it’s the same thing.) Which leads one to wonder, is there any act so bizarre, so self-destructive, or so painful that somebody, somewhere doesn’t feel an obsessive compulsion to do it? ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322/20 "2005-11-16T19:43:02Z")
At least he won’t be able to breed kids to pass the stupid gene to. The mind boggles. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-castrates-self-after-rugby-game-tmi/331322.md?page=2)