RE: [b] -- How to cut off a blokes testicles

[Paul Gill <p_gill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First thing you do is you shave the area, or if he is already shaved, that's
fine.  You scrub the area very well with antibacterial soap, and dry that
off with nice, clean, very hot, dry towels. As sterile as you can get them.
A friend of mind likes to bake his towels for a couple hours in the oven.
Says it helps. Probably does. 

Then you scrub down the skin with sponges, or bandages, soaked in Betadine,
a disinfectant. It is purple, and it stains terribly. You use sterile
procedure gloves, which guys who don't know any better often don't do. You
can get them through medical-supply stores. They come in specially wrapped
packages. You unwrap them and use the wrapping to lay down on the table so
that, if you want to put anything down, you have got a sterile place to put
it. 

Then you very carefully make an incision in the scrotum, just off center,
using a scalpel. If you are doing a bilateral orchiectomy [the medical term
for castration], you go down the center line. If you are just taking out
one, then you go down the center of that side. Then you pick up your
sterile, sharp-tipped surgical scissors, and you begin removing tissues
which overlie the testicles. 

The object is to expose the cord that connects the testicles to the body.
"The cord actually consists of two cords close together: One is the vas
deferens [which carries the semen], and the other one is the blood supply.
Surgeons cut the two apart, but it is just as simple just to tie them off. ?
Really, the best thing to do with the cord is to suture it to the scrotum.
Loose cords can cause problems." 

"So," he continues, climbing back up the ladder, "you have got the cord tied
off, then you check for hemostasis, which is control of the blood, because
you don't want the poor guy bleeding after you cut the cord. So you nick the
side of the cord below the sutures to make sure they are not leaking. If it
leaks, you haven't tied it tight enough. Once you determine there is no
bleeding, at that point you can go ahead and snip. That's it. One is off." 

Repeat for the second testicle, then suture the scrotum closed. Typically it
takes about seven stitches, he says. 


"Good ol' Creations"


 All Hail Henderson, Emperor of Root Beer


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