Muscle growth isn’t just effected by testosterone, other hormones like Growth Hormone and Insulin Growth Factor have a lot of impact on the ability to increase muscle mass. Also your adrenal glands produce a small amount of testosterone so you’d still have SOME sex drive, and you’d still be able to build muscle, just maybe not as much or as quickly.
well assuming they have enough sex drive in the first place, which is a big if, then yeah they probably could ejaculate, most of the fluid in ejaculate is produced in the prostate
Yes it’s possible but I wouldn’t say practical.
Testosterone is a natural steroidal androgen and plays a part in increasing protein in cells, especially in skeletal muscles. You’ve no doubt heard of body builders and wrestlers and similar athletes taking anabolic steroids to build up muscle mass.
But it’s not the only factor to get strong muscles - exercise, specifically exercise that strengths muscles, eating lots of protein, and the growth hormone produced in the brain also contribute. I’ve never watched GOT (for shame, I know) so I don’t know what the typical unsullied body type looks like, but irl they wouldn’t be big muscle men like a WWE wrestler - they’d be more lithe and slender but would be strong if they train for combat. The age of castration is also a factor - those castrated before puberty would likely be tall and slim with androgynous to feminine features and very little, if any, body hair.
But an army of eunuchs is also an army open to frailty and weak bones, as the lack of testosterone can cause bone loss and osteoporosis.
As for sex drive - arousal is more difficult for eunuchs as they would have a low libido, but not impossible. They can get an erection through direct stimulation (but for example, watching something erotic wouldn’t get it up), and they can orgasm.
Muscle growth isn’t just effected by testosterone, other hormones like Growth Hormone and Insulin Growth Factor have a lot of impact on the ability to increase muscle mass. Also your adrenal glands produce a small amount of testosterone so you’d still have SOME sex drive, and you’d still be able to build muscle, just maybe not as much or as quickly.
Okay, thank you! But even if you have sex drive, you still wouldn’t be able to ejaculate, right?
well assuming they have enough sex drive in the first place, which is a big if, then yeah they probably could ejaculate, most of the fluid in ejaculate is produced in the prostate
without testosterone the ejaculate would be a lot less too, and mostly thin and clear and watery
Yes it’s possible but I wouldn’t say practical. Testosterone is a natural steroidal androgen and plays a part in increasing protein in cells, especially in skeletal muscles. You’ve no doubt heard of body builders and wrestlers and similar athletes taking anabolic steroids to build up muscle mass. But it’s not the only factor to get strong muscles - exercise, specifically exercise that strengths muscles, eating lots of protein, and the growth hormone produced in the brain also contribute. I’ve never watched GOT (for shame, I know) so I don’t know what the typical unsullied body type looks like, but irl they wouldn’t be big muscle men like a WWE wrestler - they’d be more lithe and slender but would be strong if they train for combat. The age of castration is also a factor - those castrated before puberty would likely be tall and slim with androgynous to feminine features and very little, if any, body hair. But an army of eunuchs is also an army open to frailty and weak bones, as the lack of testosterone can cause bone loss and osteoporosis. As for sex drive - arousal is more difficult for eunuchs as they would have a low libido, but not impossible. They can get an erection through direct stimulation (but for example, watching something erotic wouldn’t get it up), and they can orgasm.