Castration may also become a preoccupation among those with sexual fantasies that disturb them, or that they fear they may act on.
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For some individuals, the fantasy of being castrated is enough. For others, the fantasy reaches further. A survey conducted on a castration fetish website in 2008 found that 20% of respondents had extreme desires to live out their fantasies around erotic castration; 19% of those had attempted self castration. Castration fantasies are common in the BDSM community as a form of emasculation or humiliation. Some play out these fantasies via cock and ball torture since the physiological repercussions of actual castration are dramatic and irreversible.