Eunichs 'n such

I was just reading this article from Philly's City Paper on elective castration. I thought that this quote was especially interesting:

Jim, a 57-year-old eunuch castrated on a friend's kitchen table eight years ago, believes it is a gross double standard. "If a woman went in and said she wanted her ovaries removed, the doctor would say, 'We can set you up on this date and it'll cost you X amount of dollars,'" says Jim. "Male goes in and says 'I want 'em removed,' it ain't gonna happen. We're left out in no-man's-land."

Now granted, a quick google search on women who chose to remove their ovaries (or elective oophorectomy, if you want to be precise) will reveal that most of these procedures are due to previous hysterectomy or high risk of ovarian cancer. In contrast, all of the men in the article underwent castration because they simply didn't want testicles. (Forty thousand men a year are surgically castrated for what the article calls "oncological reasons.)

A man who hates his testicles may need psychological treatment in addition to surgical treatment, but why should we treat that with more derision than this?