I concur with your article on the " Although not bearing my cross, you have spoken admirably about the strange dance of males with their glands. A prostatectomy three years ago followed by intense testosterone suppression hormone therapy has left me with a unique trifecta: impotence, incontinence and sexlessness (total absence of desire).

The first time after the surgery I saw a group of strapping, robust teenage males walking toward me, I had an inner disquiet I had not felt since my pre-pubescent days in the presence of older young men. The downside of this strange journey of total and perhaps permanent sexual inadequacy is an equally strange release and realization I had been a prisoner to testosterone for nearly half a century. I had spent every hour of every day since I was thirteen driven by an inner force that was at once angelic and demonic. Now I was paroled into a world that no longer holds any desire for me.