When spadonics (testicle castration) only is performed, it seems the consensus of reputable opinion that little if any damage is inflicted upon the sexual passion. Indeed, as has been pointed out by Jäger, and as previously intimated here, women prefer castrated men, not only from immunity from the danger of impregnation, but because of the longer duration of their erections.

Disselhorst has limited the period of sexual potency, as to the act, to ten years after spadonic castration; and Pelikan (Das Skopzenlum in Rüssland), while not fixing a definite limit to the polentia camndi, believes that if castration is performed at puberty, the power of sexual intercourse remains for "a long time afterward."1 Guinard concludes that the sexual power is more persistent under such conditions in man than animals; being sometimes even heightened, and rendered far more susceptible to the influence of peripheral stimulation.3 The conclusion then is that only true castration, removal of both penis and testicles, is capable of destroying the sexual power.