Variation in perceptions of genital ablation between aspiring eunuchs and individuals with paraphilic sexual fantasies
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Background: Although uncommon, some individuals assigned male at birth (AMAB) seek voluntary genital ablative procedures, and others fantasize about it. Aim: To learn more about the views of genital ablation and injuries in those who aspire to be castrated as compared with those who only fantasize about it. Methods: A survey was run on the Eunuch Archive internet community. Content analysis was conducted on the responses of 342 AMAB individuals with castration fantasy but no desire for actual surgery (fantasizers) vs 294 AMAB individuals who expressed a desire for genital ablation (aspiring). Outcomes: Study outcomes were responses to open-ended questions about genital ablations and injury. Results: Aspiring individuals were more likely to perceive a "physical appearance benefit" from orchiectomy, but fewer could recall how they first learned about the procedure. Some reasons that aspiring persons gave for desiring an orchiectomy included "achieving preferred self" and "health reasons." Fantasizers, in contrast, worried about the potential side effects of orchiectomy, and more believed there to be no benefit to it. Clinical Implications: Psychiatrists and other clinicians need to understand their patients' views on genital ablation to properly diagnose and provide the best personalized care. Strengths and Limitations: Strengths include a large sample of respondents. Limitations include the accuracy of the anonymous survey data. Conclusions: This study demonstrates divergent interests on genital ablation among AMAB individuals who have not had an any genital ablation yet have intense interest in the topic.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it