.......My girlfriend simply asked me if I could see any reason why these wives would come to the office and ask about such things because she didn't understand why herself.
....... telling me that such castrating wives don't exist, I'm not worried anymore.
......I am worried about prostate cancer.
....... one of us men who have posted in this thread will get prostate cancer and have to choose between death or living like a eunuch... However, you are not alone. It is said that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 men in the US have been castrated due to prostate cancer.
,,,,, if these men's wives see any benefit from their husbands being castrated, and do these husbands see themselves as eunuchs......
I will treat this with more seriousness than it probably deserves.
I would expect that any woman that wants her husband castrated has her own reasons, and they could range from anger, fear of pregnancy, no longer wanting sex, to saving her husbands life.
Generally it is unethical and illegal to castrate a man except in extreme medical necessity. It is not something a doctor would casually do and then only as a last restort.
A long, long time ago, I found a large lump on one of my testicles and was quickly scheduled for examination by a specialist. I was warned that depending on what the ultrasound looked like, I might be rushed in the next day to have an out patient biopsy of the lump in the testicle and perhaps a couple of lymph nodes/glands, and maybe even the other testicle depending on the doctors review of the imaging. I was further cautioned that if the lump on the testicle was cancerous, depending on how aggressive the cancer might be, they would recommend surgical removal shortly (a couple days) after the biopsy results were in. It was a lot for both me and my wife to take in all at once.
They also suggested that if castration were to be the recommended course of action they would recommend I donate sperm at a sperm bank and they would try to save the other testicle unless the cancer had spread. I was lucky, it turned out to be a badly infected/blocked duct on the outer surface of the testicle that was cleared up with some medicine and hot baths.
Not sure about your statistics, but prostate cancer is pretty common among older men. However, the choice is not death or castration. A lot of prostate cancer is very slow growing, so if you are 85, your chance of dying from something else before the prostate cancer gets you is probably great, which is why for many older men it is just monitor the growth of the cancer. Again, it is not death or castration.
Also often times the surgery for prostate cancer is removal of all or part of the prostate, chemo/radiation treatment, etc. Sometimes that can result in impotence, other times not. Again, treatment does not normally involve castration.
The older men, I know who have faced prostate cancer and surgery, their wives are almost all universally grateful for additional years of their husband's life. So, that is why a wife might want prostrate cancer treatment even in the rare cases where it entails temporarily or permanent castration.
This should not be a fetish item for anyone, medical surgery is serious stuff.
