On Vulcans
Decades of study have shown that testosterone can impede concentration, reduce motivation, and slow learning. Many drugs exist that can either counter some of the undesirable symptoms caused by the hormone, and others directly reduce the generation of testosterone in the body. Those commonly known as "Vulcans" however, take a different approach. The man's testes are the source of all (or nearly all) of the testosterone created in the male body. While drugs invariably have side effects, the complete removal of the testicles has been found to sharply reduce the volume of annoying hormones in the system while causing relatively few problems.
The medical world calls them Voluntary Castration Patients. The term shortened to Vol-Cas in colloquial use. The term "Vulcan" quickly replaced Vol-Cas due to the similarity in sound and the Vol-Cas Patients' tendencies to be stone-faced, humorless, emotionless, and highly intelligent -- much like the pointy-eared race of beings in the fictional Star Trek universe. Vulcans are also generally pale and thin both due to their hormone deficiencies and because they spend so much time in windowless labs, workshops, and offices. For reasons not entirely understood, Vulcans live 24 years longer on average than men who keep their testicles.
The procedure is hardly popular, but those who choose this path are almost invariably men with an insatiable desire to accomplish more and learn faster -- and who have no patience for or understanding of the more delicate emotions. These men devote their whole lives to their intellectual passions and forever abandon the unstable sex-driven emotions of the inferior majority they laughingly call "Humans."
The medical world calls them Voluntary Castration Patients. The term shortened to Vol-Cas in colloquial use. The term "Vulcan" quickly replaced Vol-Cas due to the similarity in sound and the Vol-Cas Patients' tendencies to be stone-faced, humorless, emotionless, and highly intelligent -- much like the pointy-eared race of beings in the fictional Star Trek universe. Vulcans are also generally pale and thin both due to their hormone deficiencies and because they spend so much time in windowless labs, workshops, and offices. For reasons not entirely understood, Vulcans live 24 years longer on average than men who keep their testicles.
The procedure is hardly popular, but those who choose this path are almost invariably men with an insatiable desire to accomplish more and learn faster -- and who have no patience for or understanding of the more delicate emotions. These men devote their whole lives to their intellectual passions and forever abandon the unstable sex-driven emotions of the inferior majority they laughingly call "Humans."
posted by TBone at 11:42 AM
5 Comments:
No offense but you might want to cite a source or three.
If the major male hormone associated with aggressiveness is radically reduced, then logically the post-op Vulcans might no longer have "an insatiable desire to accomplish more." Similarly, if they originally "have no patience for or understanding of the more delicate emotions", they arguably move in that direction with castration, no?
To be honest, I have no sources to cite. No research and very little thought went into this post.
I completely agree that such an operation might, in truth, have no such effect. In fact, upon brief reflection, it would almost certainly have the opposite effect -- as I assume estrogen levels would go up.
It's just something that leapt into my head and was typed out stream-of-consciousness style.
Oh, you're here. :)
I went back and read some earlier posts of yours. It's like beginnings of stories? Are the dreams true? (I.e. real dreams, lol.)
I admire good writing. Have you seen The Dead Postman?
They're pieces of stories, sort of. Just things that have popped into my head, good and bad.
The dreams aren't real in the sense that I dreamed them myself while asleep. They're like meta-dreams.
No, I haven't seen The Dead Postman. It looks very interesting. I like what I see so far.
Thanks for reading, and for commenting. May I ask what led you here?
Hm, it was probably surfing the 'newly updated blogs' or whatever that rolls past in the Blogger Dashboard when one is not signed in. I look for interesting blog titles. It's a painful process, and I find mo' bettah blogs by trying the links listed on other ppl's blogs.
:)
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