Substack, a subscription-based online newsletter platform for independent writers, continues to attract extremists and conspiracy theorists who routinely use the site to profit from spreading antisemitism, misinformation, disinformation and hate speech.

Platforms with more lenient content moderation policies, like Substack, provide fertile ground for the spread of hateful rhetoric and false information – a known catalyst for offline harm and violence. For example, seemingly fringe conspiracy theories about QAnon and the Illuminati motivated Matthew Coleman to kidnap and kill his own children in 2021 due to fears that they had “serpent DNA.” Also, the various false narratives surrounding the 2020 Presidential election led to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Concerningly, similar rhetoric has been noted on Substack.

The ADL Center on Extremism observed a recent increase in Substack’s popularity, as well as several conspiratorial or extremist influencers either creating their own Substacks or directing their followers to others. A number of these Substack accounts were dedicated to spreading extremist, antisemitic and conspiratorial narratives, and several problematic authors are popular enough to have earned a “bestseller” ranking on the platform.

From raising unfounded suspicions about mass shootings and elections to spreading blatant hate speech against Jews, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community, these authors are promoting – and in many cases, monetizing – dangerous conspiracy theories, anti-government sentiments, white supremacist discourse and antisemitic tropes.

Paid subscriptions benefit authors and platform

Founded in 2017, Substack aims to build “a better future for writing” by providing a user-friendly and profitable service to independent authors. The “about” page states, “When readers pay writers directly, writers can focus on doing the work they care about most. A few hundred paid subscribers can support a livelihood. A few thousand makes it lucrative.”

Not all Substack authors require their subscribers to pay to read their content, and free content is typically accessible to non-subscribers as well. However, authors will often write articles that are exclusive to paid subscribers only. Subscription plans and fees vary, and are determined by the author. Readers can pay monthly or yearly, and often have additional options such as group plans or a “founding member” status. Additionally, Substack collects a 10% fee, and their credit card processor charges an additional 2.9% +.30 processing fee.

In November of 2022, Substack introduced the “bestseller badge” for accounts with a high enough number of paid subscribers, indicating what Substack refers to as a “top-performing writer.” Bestseller account holders may choose how and where they display their badge, which shows up as a checkmark icon. Each badge color represents different increments of paid subscribers: Purple for “tens of thousands,” orange for “thousands” and white for “hundreds.”

Substack does not display lists or names of subscribers to the public. However, a rounded number of general subscribers, as well as paid subscribers where applicable, appears on the initial landing page of each account.

Accounts promote extremist rhetoric, hate speech and false information

In early 2022, research organizations and media outlets including the Washington Post wrote about the presence of problematic content on Substack, noting its use by spreaders of false information and reporting that the platform has made “millions of dollars off anti-vaccine misinformation.” Today, a wide range of conspiratorial narratives and extremist tropes remain on the platform, and many of the accounts responsible for spreading such rhetoric are labeled as bestsellers – an indication that both the authors and Substack are benefiting financially from this content.

For the purposes of this report, the estimated monthly profits listed below are based on the lowest possible paid subscriber count and the lowest possible paid subscriber fee, minus the percentage collected by Substack and their credit card processor. These estimates are not included for authors whose paid subscriber count is not listed publicly.

The following examples highlight Substack accounts whose articles contain extremist rhetoric, hate speech, harmful conspiracy theories and misleading information.

EXTREMISM & HATE SPEECH

Calvin’s Common Sense Crusade

4,000 + Subscribers

Calvin Robinson, a British deacon and conservative commentator, writes frequently on his Substack about what he finds problematic in “liberalism,” including gay marriage and being transgender. In one article, he rejects the existence of trans people, and calls on his readers to do the same. “People cannot be ‘trans’ gender, race or age,” he writes, adding that “the natural conclusion [of a society that accepts trans people] is paedophilia.” He goes on to challenge readers to “stop conceding ground” to the “delusion” of transgenderism.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Robinson has shared similar sentiments on Twitter and Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Decode The World

A Substack called “Decode the World” by Chris Kitze claims to help readers understand the “Signs and Symbols that Rule the World.” The articles discuss the supposed secret gestures and codes used by figures such as Anthony Fauci and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to signal their affiliation with an evil “cult” of world leaders. Kitze also uses anti-LGBTQ+ tropes to suggest that being transgender implies a connection to the occult, and that “the world is being flooded” by the “perversion” of the LGBTQ+ community.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

In another article, Kitze claims that entities like the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Biden administration and Ukraine’s political leaders have deliberately orchestrated the war in Ukraine in order to create “Greater Israel,” calling the initiative “the re-creation of ancient Khazaria, a foothold in Europe for a Jewish state.” Antisemitic conspiracy theories about Ukraine have circulated since Russia first invaded the country in late February of 2022.

Josh’s Research Archive

A Substack author who simply goes by “Josh” mainly publishes articles espousing false information and conspiracy theories about Jews. One article is titled, “FAKE ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE USSR CREATED BY JEWS TO CONCEAL THE FACT OF JEWISH DOMINATION.” Another article depicts Jews as deceitful and manipulative by nature, stating that “disguises of the shapeshifters are quintessentially Talmudic” and that Jews are taught to disguise themselves when planning “to do evil against gentiles”.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Notably, the name of this account is “Josh’s Research Archive,” and the subhead reads “JQ information archive.” Given the deeply antisemitic content of the articles, it is likely that “JQ” stands for “Jewish Question.” In Nazi Germany, the proposed “final solution” to the so-called “Jewish Question” was the mass extermination of Jews.

Kevin’s Newsletter

4,000+ Subscribers

Hundreds of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $579

“Kevin’s Newsletter” is a Substack run by the antisemitic and anti-Zionist conspiracy theorist Kevin Barrett, who has blamed Jews and Israel for the creation of ISIS, the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and more. In an article published November of 2022, Barrett alleges that “Jewish power” is the result of “the disproportionate presence of Jews in powerful positions in media, politics, and finance.” Later, he makes a series of anti-Zionist statements, referring to “Israel’s transformation into an admittedly genocidal entity.”

In another article, Barrett suggests that people who have a “Jewish handler” are at risk of “being institutionalized and injected,” referring to Ye’s conspiratorial rants about his former personal trainer, Harley Pasternak.

Libs of TikTok

131,000+ Subscribers

Thousands of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $4,055

Also known as Libs of TikTok, Chaya Raichik has gained a large following on social media due to her repeated demonization of the LGBTQ+ community and promotion of the unfounded “groomer” narrative, which she has discussed with prominent conservative media pundits like Tucker Carlson.

Besides Twitter, Raichik relies on Substack as an additional venue to spread misleading and hateful rhetoric against drag queens, trans individuals and experts who specialize in gender transition. After receiving a temporary suspension from Twitter in August of 2022, Raichik took to Substack to defend herself while doubling down on what got her penalized in the first place: The false claim that Boston Children’s Hospital was performing hysterectomies on minors seeking gender-affirming care. Significantly, Substack did not suspend her for these claims.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Raichik also regularly uses the platform to target teachers and doctors who support LGBTQ+ rights. This phenomenon often results in harassment.

Red-State Secession

On a Substack called “Red-State Secession,” the author proposes a strategy to preserve white populations and sovereignty: Segregation, by splitting the country in half by political ideology. In one article, the author claims, “Our children will eventually be persecuted for their whiteness by the majority unless we split the US and create a federation of red states that’s safe for all races.”

This article also frames interracial couples as contributors to the alleged shrinking of the white race, saying “Immigration is to blame, but we shouldn’t blame all of this on immigration. Mixed marriages are reducing the percentage of US children who are ‘white.’”

Restoring Order

Known extremist Patrick Casey, who led the former white supremacist/alt-right group American Identity Movement (AIM), has written on Substack about his concerns for the future of white children in America: “I am fighting to ensure that my future children do not find themselves hated minorities. As such, there is no win scenario for me in which white people end up as hated minorities in the West.” Unsurprisingly, this sentiment is highly reminiscent of the white supremacist slogan, the 14 Words.

Turning Point Stocks

The landing page for the Substack account called “Turning Point Stocks” by Edward Reid references “the Jewish Question,” and the description on the author’s profile reads, “Jews are parasites and niggers are leeches.”

In his articles, Reid’s rhetoric includes antisemitic, racist and anti-immigrant sentiments, stoking fear about the future of the “White native” in America, which Reid claims is run by the Jews. Another article states that “the jews control hollywood [sic], commercials, media, music etc.” Several articles also use anti-LGBTQ+ slurs.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

MIS/DISINFORMATION & CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Clandestine’s Newsletter

47,000+ Subscribers

Thousands of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $4,055

Jacob Creech a.k.a. Clandestine, known for promoting debunked disinformation about U.S. biolabs in Ukraine, writes on Substack about QAnon and other far-right conspiracy theories to push back against the so-called “mainstream media” narrative.

His content includes an article on how to indoctrinate people by way of “red pilling” – a term typically used by the far-right to describe the phenomenon of “awakening” the masses to “the truth.” This is often conspiratorial and may include antisemitic and racist tropes.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

While Creech doesn’t recommend using QAnon specifically as an effective initial “red pill,” he does suggest using it “as a tool to find real-world proof to show irregularities in the mainstream narrative(s).” This guidance is concerning, as it borrows from tactics used by extremist groups to radicalize prospective members into dangerous ideologies which glorify violence.

Culturcidal by John Hawkins

26,000+ Subscribers

John Hawkins uses his Substack “Culturcidal” to push a range of unfounded narratives, some of which align strongly with the Great Replacement Theory – a conspiracy theory alleging that white people are being systematically replaced by non-white immigrants. Some proponents argue that this deliberate “replacement” is being orchestrated by the Jews. Notably, the Great Replacement theory was a key motivator for mass shooter Peyton Gendron, who shot 13 people in a Buffalo, NY grocery store in May of 2022, killing 10.

In one of Hawkins’ articles titled “The Left’s Great Replacement Theory Gaslighting,” he argues that “There is clearly, undeniably, unambiguously a ‘great replacement’ happening in the United States.” While he attempts to distance himself from the overtly racist implications of that claim, he posits that liberal politicians “intentionally set out to change the racial composition” of Americans – “by replacing the white population with minorities that were more likely to vote for them.” This is the same iteration of replacement theory that’s been promoted by television personality Tucker Carlson and other right-wing figures.

Dr. Mercola’s Censored Library

285,000+ Subscribers

Tens of Thousands of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $40,550

Referred to by the New York Times as “The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online,” Dr. Joseph Mercola is infamous for sharing unfounded claims and misleading information about COVID-19 and vaccines. However, Mercola has also written on Substack about conspiracy theories involving government agencies and election interference, stating in one article that the FBI “actively interfered in multiple elections” while pushing claims about unlawful censorship and big tech collusion with the government.

Jordan’s Newsletter

27,000+ Subscribers

Hundreds of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $405.50

Social media influencer and QAnon promoter Jordan Sather has built a following on Substack by writing about far-right conspiracy theories, discussing everything from the Great Awakening to QAnon to the presence of “pedo-Satanism” in Hollywood.

In one article titled "Another Day, Another False Flag Shooting (Uvalde, TX)," Sather attempts to prove that the tragic mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas – which resulted in the death of 19 students and two adults at Robb Elementary School – was a government orchestrated false flag operation to promote gun control laws. He cites various forms of "evidence" to support his claim, such as a freemason sticker being spotted on a car in the background of a news report from that day. Freemasons are frequent targets of conspiracy theorists, and the discourse often overlaps with antisemitic tropes.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Kanekoa News

56,000+ Subscribers

Thousands of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $4,055

Kanekoa the Great (or just Kanekoa), who regularly promotes his Substack on Twitter and Telegram, writes articles pushing repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories and false claims about election fraud such as ballot harvesting, drop box stuffing, big tech interference and more. In one article, Kanekoa states that Biden’s presidential win in 2020 was the result of “an organized criminal ballot trafficking ring that took advantage of Zuckerberg’s drop boxes.” In another, he alleges “widespread fraud in Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election which was decided by 20,682 votes.”

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy

4,000+ Subscribers

Hundreds of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $579.70

Jim Stewartson is a left-wing Substack author and self-proclaimed "anti-disinformation activist" whose articles primarily focus on proving who was behind QAnon, which he alleges was a Russian psychological operation coordinated in part with General Michael Flynn. The ADL Center on Extremism has found no evidence to support this claim.

Stewartson frequently dedicates a number of articles to targeting established journalists and experts in the extremism research field, calling them "controlled opposition" and accusing them – without evidence – of protecting "QAnon, Mike Flynn and the Russians."

Stewartson’s former deradicalization initiative “The Thinkin Project,” which was established to help pull QAnon followers out of the conspiratorial rabbit hole, failed to gain traction, and is said to have “succeeded mostly in attacking and alienating journalists and QAnon researchers.” He was also banned from Twitter for breaking the terms of service in 2022 and was reinstated in 2023.

Pepe’s Fren Zone

15,000+ Subscribers

Hundreds of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $405.50

The “Pepe’s Fren Zone” Substack, written by the popular QAnon influencer Pepe Lives Matter, incorporates a common alt-right dogwhistle into its brand and uses QAnon tropes to push conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton, George Soros and more while promising a triumphant future for the far-right. One article reads, “Q said that crimes against children would unite the world,” followed by a screenshot of a Q drop. The article also promotes the QAnon belief that Trump sends covert communications to “anons” on social media.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Rise of the New Media Newsletter

24,000+ Subscribers

Thousands of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $4,055

QAnon influencer Brian Cates writes about a variety of false narratives and conspiracy theories on Substack. Several articles promise that the “great awakening” is imminent, promising “payback” for the actions of “authoritarian goons” such as Anthony Fauci, who he believes lied about the severity of COVID to control American citizens. An article highlighting his distrust in Fauci reads, “You are going to see a very real wave of national anger quite unlike anything else this nation has ever experienced in the modern age,” followed by an image of an angry crowd holding pitchforks, bats and lit torches.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Much of Cates’ rhetoric is also centered around opposing the mainstream media, alleging that “Fake News” organizations are lying and trying to prevent the public from knowing about the “great awakening” by keeping them “trapped in the Matrix,” sometimes with violent ideation. In one article, he says, “The one single thing we need the Corporate Fake News Matrix to do is to F**KING DIE.”

Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter

220,000+ Subscribers

Tens of Thousands of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $40,550

Entrepreneur Steve Kirsch, who once advocated for and helped fund COVID-19 vaccine research initiatives, joined Substack after pivoting to anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and other misinformation narratives. On his “About” page, Kirsch explains that he now uses platforms such as Telegram, Gab and Substack because “censorship has increased” on more mainstream sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Kirsch’s articles focus heavily on vaccine misinformation, alleging that big pharma and the CDC are hiding insidious information about vaccines, which are proven to be safe and effective. However, he also discusses false narratives about election integrity, citing in one article the conspiratorial film “[S]election Code” and claiming that it shows ”ironclad evidence” of fraud in the 2020 election. Kirsch also attempts to paint former Mesa County, Colorado clerk and election denier Tina Peters as a silenced hero of democracy. Peters was recently found guilty of obstructing a government operation and still faces felony charges for her actions in the 2020 security breach.

Stone Cold Truth with Roger Stone

102,000+ Subscribers

Hundreds of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $579.70

Former Trump advisor and convicted felon Roger Stone regularly publishes inflammatory articles on his Substack, where he blames the “deep state” and the “legacy media cabal” for suppressing information from the public and alleges a series of conspiracies surrounding the death of JFK. He also combines medical misinformation with anti-government sentiments, suggesting that the COVID pandemic was weaponized by the government “to manipulate everyone into handing over their freedoms.”

In 2019, Stone was found guilty of obstructing an investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election, among other charges. Stone has also expressed public support for the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group whose rhetoric includes antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ+ tropes. Just before the 2020 election, Stone was documented on tape advocating for violence.

Who is Robert Malone

294,000+ Subscribers

Tens of Thousands of Paid Subscribers

Minimum Monthly Profits: $40,550

Robert Malone is best known for posting vaccine and COVID-related conspiracy theories. However, his content also promotes conspiratorial tropes about evil, powerful forces in the government. In one article, he discusses something called fifth generation warfare, or “5GW,” as a way to retain “autonomy and sovereignty,” rather than conceding to what he calls “the Uniparty and their globalist Overlords.” Malone also pushes anti-government conspiracy theories, writing that a “Uniparty is waging fifth generation warfare against American citizens.”

Substack’s increasing popularity on Twitter

Measuring the prevalence of Substack links on Twitter provides an important metric to determine the platform’s popularity, as authors often use Twitter to promote their newsletters to potential subscribers. Over the past few years, tweets which include external links to Substack pages, also known as outlinks, have increased demonstrably.

In 2021, the volume of Twitter mentions (including retweets) which included outlinks to Substack exceeded 6.08 million. In 2022, those mentions doubled to more than 12.6 million. In the first two months of 2023, mentions are already over 4.3 million.

This increase begs the question of whether the wealth of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories on Substack – much of which has drawn countless paid and unpaid subscribers to the platform – violates the platform’s existing content moderation policies.

Content moderation on Substack

Substack’s Content Guidelines prohibit anything that incites violence based on protected classes or promotes harmful or illegal activities. While the guidelines denounce things like publishing private information (doxing), plagiarism and spam, they say little about publishing false or misleading information.

Substack’s Publisher Agreement gives some indication regarding its approach to harmful misinformation: “You also represent and warrant that you will not publish newsletters or otherwise use Substack in a manner that: is fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, libelous, or in any way violates Substack’s Content Guidelines.” Yet it is unclear how fraud, deception, and the rest are measured or determined. For instance, the Kanekoa News example above could be construed as a deceptive publication about election fraud. Also, the antisemitic examples from Josh’s Research Archive and Turning Point Stacks clearly make deceptive and harmful claims about Jewish people.

Substack’s co-founders posted a lengthy explanation of their content moderation philosophy in December of 2020: “Ultimately, we think the best content moderators are the people who control the communities on Substack: the writers themselves … We think it’s better that the publisher, or a trusted member of that community, sets the tone and maintains the desired standard, and we will continue to build tools to help them to do that.”

A subsequent March 2021 post, which still appears today, says the platform "will resist any calls that may come for [an account’s] deplatforming” if the account in question has not broken any rules. Substack authors are primarily responsible for moderating their own content and any comments left by their readers. They may report readers directly to Substack for violating the Terms of Use via email. Substack will occasionally review reports about reader comments, but enforcement lies mostly with authors.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140043)

Like I’m sure they believe it but aren’t as motivated as they may have been 5 years ago to keep caring about it once they X out the article or twitter window

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140177)

A Substack author who simply goes by “Karlstack” mainly publishes articles espousing false information and conspiracy theories about Jews. One article is titled, “FAKE ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE USSR CREATED BY JEWS TO CONCEAL THE FACT OF JEWISH DOMINATION.” Another article depicts Jews as deceitful and manipulative by nature, stating that “disguises of the shapeshifters are quintessentially Talmudic” and that Jews are taught to disguise themselves when planning “to do evil against gentiles”.

Antisemitism, False Information and Hate Speech Find a Home on Substack

Notably, the name of this account is “Karlstack,” and the subhead reads “JQ information archive.” Given the deeply antisemitic content of the articles, it is likely that “JQ” stands for “Jewish Question.” In Nazi Germany, the proposed “final solution” to the so-called “Jewish Question” was the mass extermination of Jews."

jfc karlstack you might want to take it easy for a bit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140197)

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Simon Davis

10/16/14 11:10AM

Filed to: INTERVIEWS

In 1994, a South Florida man who goes by the name Gelding was surgically castrated. In 2011, he had his penis removed as well. He's a "nullo": A cisgender man who removes his external genitalia completely as a form of body modification, and he recently agreed to answer our questions—from "why?" to "what do balls taste like?"

Gelding is a nudist and describes himself as a submissive bear. Apart from his desire to use a pseudonym, he let it all hang out (so to speak) when I reached out to him and graciously answered every question I had.

Is nullo your preferred term to describe yourself and others like you who are castrated and have removed their penis?

Yes, the reason that we use that it is not transgender. It's simply nullification of what you've got. A friend of mine Mack in San Francisco likes to use the term "mascunull", because I remain as masculine as they come with fur and so forth. But I no longer have the parts.

What are some misconceptions people have about nullos?

A few men don't know their own physiology to the point where they think if they lose their balls they can't come any more. And that's false. If you look at the physiology you see that the fluids are made by the seminal vesicles and the prostate. Very little of the fluid and the content is produced in the testes. I still unload.

But the active ingredient for impregnating someone isn't there.

Right.

Do you get a lot of people who think you're trying to become a woman?

Absolutely. And it's mostly the medical profession who sees the sexes as either male or female. And anyone who wants to alter any part of that is in some way suffering from gender dysphoria. They don't like themselves for some reason and they want to change gender. And that's absolutely false.

It's not a dysphoria. I see it in the positive way of working toward something, rather than away from something. Many of the guys instead of putting a negative feel on it see it as a positive. Being castrated is a positive to them. Rather than removing something that they dislike, they are moving in the direction that they want. I went through a long set of psychological evaluation sessions with a psychologist here in town, because that was necessary in order to have the penis removed.

You've previously discussed your 1994 castration. However, I didn't find anything on your penis removal in 2011. Can you talk about that?

I knew I was uncomfortable in having frankly large male parts. I would quite often sit on my own balls because they were loose unless I wore something tight and held them in I would sit on them and squash them. That got me into trouble playing soccer in college when they forced us to wear these hard plastic cups. What happened was I fell on a guy's upright knee with the weight of another player behind me, so two of us fell on the knee. The knee happened to hit the middle of the plastic cup and imploded and tore me up. I was severely injured.

The doctor saved everything but over a period of time the nerves gave me some problems and I had aches in my testicles all the time. When I was in the military service they tried doing a varicose vein removal but that didn't help, it just made matters worse. They thought I was suffering from varicose veins. So after leaving the service I had them removed. And that removed that little problem but I still had the nerve sensations in the penis which woke me up at night. So I could get erect, but it was painful.

So I talked with my urologist and he said the only treatment for that was to make it numb, which is very dangerous because if you make something like that numb then you don't know if it's infected for some reason. Or remove it, but to do that he needs to cover his ass and asked for a psychological evaluation. And my own doctor is a professor at Nova Southeastern University here in. She is the most brilliant doctor I've ever met. So, I asked her about this problem and she was very forthright and said "well, we'll have to treat you". She didn't consider it something that was wrong with me, she said "we have to investigate." I went to see a psychiatrist and he spent a good 90 minutes with me and said "yes, I have just the person that can work with you." So the psychologist did a battery of personality tests and said "you're perfectly fine, your only problem is that you've got these physical problems which work on your nerves." And I said "yeah." And he said "it also works with your personality" because I'm a gay submissive and I always have been and it wasn't working right. So in order to to fix it I worked toward a goal of having things removed. And that was it. I'm working in a positive way to solve my own personal problem.

But was castration something you were contemplating prior to the injury?

Yes. For whatever reason I was always embarrassed by the size of what I had. It didn't fit my personality.

Do you remember when you the fantasy to remove your testicles first occurred?

I had a baby face in high school, there was one of these bullies and he said "you have a man's equipment but you're still a boy" and he squeezed my balls in the shower. He was on the football team, I was on the soccer team showering together and he said "you shouldn't have such big equipment" so he squeezed my balls and at that point it was just a fantasy for me. So how about getting rid of them for some reason?

When did it go from fantasy to aspiration?

It became a fetish thing where I would do sort of more self destructive things with them like putting rubber bands around them and needles through the balls and whatnot. It's a progression which a lot of guys go through. It's something that works on them and they say "Well, how about if we just have them off? Then I won't be bothered by this constant urge to hurt them". And this is where a psychologist gets into the dysphoria. It's very difficult to distinguish whether it's a dislike for something or instead you're working towards something else. I always thought when I was on the beach—I was also on the swim team—and we had Speedos, it was difficult to pack everything in frankly. I would be embarrassed and everybody was looking and here I am and I've got the biggest package and I'm not the biggest guy and I got a whole lot of looks from everybody.

I had a big dick, it got damaged and I was a bottom. I didn't want to use it, I got pushed into using it, I had to take all sorts of medications and was tired of being somebody else's tool.

Broadly speaking, how can someone know that being a nullo is something they actually want to go through with as opposed to something they fantasize about?

That's something really for a psychologist to answer, but in talking to all the guys that I've been talking with, they try to come up with all sorts of different rationalizations to justify it. In my case, my medical situation really didn't justify it because I was just uncomfortable with what I had. It wasn't medically necessary. But I felt that I would be much more comfortable having the issues of having the sensation but not being able to use it well. It was something like a guy having a useless appendage and it's something he has to carry around, and it becomes baggage after a while.

If someone starts/botches the process on their own, what would you recommend they do? Should people use a cover story to avoid getting in trouble?

No. Go to the emergency room. Today, they have been exposed to a lot more of the literature out there than they were 20 years ago. They're not going to be institutionalized. I mean years ago they used to institutionalize guys that were gay.

How would you say the breakdown is between gay and straight men for nullos?

I would have to say it's mostly gays. I don't know of a straight guy who became a nullo.

You had said in a previous interview that for castrations it's about a two to one for gay to straight men that decide to do it.

I've heard of a couple of straight guys who decided that they were making too many babies so they had their balls off so they could take testosterone and continue. I know quite a few bodybuilders both gay and straight whose testes have shrunk because of the steroids they are taking which are bad for their health. So they got castrated and now they're on medically injected testosterone which is good for them. It's not as harmful as oral steroids are or some of the other shit that they're pumping into themselves.

How would you recommend people do their penectomy and castration?

In the last couple of years, my friend Mack from San Francisco ran into Dr. Crane from Brownstein & Crane and he met him, and I don't know how the two of them had the discussion, and then I had a phone interview with Dr. Crane and I explained my situation with him and now Dr. Crane is no longer doing just transgender type of procedures but [also] genital modifications.

So in a way, you educated him.

The protocol that the doctors use for transgender people is called the Harry Benjamin protocol. So for example Dr. Reed in Miami, before you go to his clinic you have to take female hormones for six months and show some development of breasts and whatnot, some feminine characteristics before he will deal with you. And why do that when you simply want to get the genitals removed?

If anything, wouldn't additional testosterone be what you'd need after castration?

Men who get castrated, they do get depressed if they don't start fairly right away on testosterone. Because the falling hormone causes hot flashes first of all, and then the loss of libido. You lose all interest in sex and everything else.

Are there any changes that occur to the body as a result?

Body changes are minimal really. If you lose your balls, you won't lose all your hair.

What about voice? Is that a myth?

Voice doesn't change, no. The larynx is a hard tissue, and the voice box and everything else is a hard tissue. But the timbre of your voice is a factor of the larynx. I sang in the college choir, I know about these things.

One thing I noticed while reading testimonials is that many people seem to try their hand at castration and penectomy but then go to the doctor only if it goes wrong. How much of this would you say is due to the medical profession's reluctance to remove healthy body parts and how much is due to people's general fear of discussing this type of thing with their doctor or therapist?

You know about the Hippocratic oath right? "First do no harm". They have to be convinced that what they are doing is in fact an improvement on your health. Which is why the surgeon is requesting a psychological evaluation. And the psychologist comes back and says "yeah, he's going to be uncomfortable where he is, he's going to be more improved, better mood, better this, better that" and so forth. So from a totality point of view, it's going to get better after he gets modified.

And let me tell you my mood has improved dramatically since going nullo. I don't miss the baggage. I don't miss the fact that I get into sex with a guy, he expects me to perform in some ways, now he doesn't have that expectation. In fact, quite a few guys find it very arousing that they don't have to have that distraction.

Are there other benefits?

Another thing is, guys who are aroused by my situation are very aroused. I've got some guys who are pursuing me a lot. And they just like this idea, because there's nothing there to be in the way. Face to face fucking is very pleasurable. And when they're doing that I actually wet their stomachs with my fluids. And this one guy, he likes to go down on me. He's a bi guy and he said he does this with his girlfriend so he goes down there and starts licking me. And he just loves that idea. He loves the idea that I have a hairy chest and what is to him a very tiny vagina that he can't fuck but he can lick and he can enjoy being the male role. I've even got a straight guy here in town who likes to fuck me because I don't have any male genitals and he doesn't feel threatened by that.

Are there any downsides?

One of the most obvious cons is I have to sit to pee, or I have to use one of these female urination devices. It's an odd funnel shaped device that you can use if there's only a men's urinal. Also, some times I get urinary tract infections. There's a shorter path to the bladder through what I've got now. So I've got to be very careful and keep it clean. I can't get guy fingering me down there because it's the inside of the urethra so it's sensitive.

Do you ever get "phantom dick" syndrome when you are reaching for it out of habit?

A lot of the nerves are bundled on the base of the penis where most of the sensation comes from. It's not along the length of penis but on the base of the penis is where most of the sensations are. And I wake up in the morning with a feeling that I have a big dick that's erect.

In your experience, what percentage of castrations are done by non-medical professionals? How about penectomies? What are the safety risks for each? Would you say one is more difficult than the other for a layman?

I would above three quarters [by non-medical professionals]. And that number is lower than say twenty years ago. There are not as many today.

Which are not as many?

The amateur cutters. There are a lot of wannabes that are successful that manage to stay below the radar of the authorities because they run into trouble because of their lack of skill. Because if you mess up there are problems there. But if you're very careful in choosing the men you work with so that you have very low risk involved, which is age (you don't do old men), you don't do very overweight men, you don't do men who smoke, who don't take drugs and anything else. If you take these fairly low-risk guys and you do it well, then there won't be any problems. Once these guys get castrated, most of them simply become very private and they don't brag about things. They sort of withdraw from pursuing anything else because they've reached their goal.

So is the the percentage of amateur cutters lower today due to more people with medical training performing castrations?

Yes. They are finding that there is a living in this if they do it among other things.

How about with penectomies? I would imagine (and hope!) there's fewer amateurs performing these.

Almost all of them are done by medical professionals. That's tricky, yeah. More tricky. It's sort of major surgery and it's been done by some amateurs. They're fairly good with their surgical techniques. I was actually at one and the guy did a fairly good job but it took a long time and it was a very involved, very slow process. I've heard of only three or four done by cutters in the past and they have left active participation in this.

When you do a penectomy you have to re-route the urethra, yes?

Yes, what I did with this is I knew where I was going with this in 1999 and I contacted my urologist in Hollywood [Florida], an old guy who was just about to retire and I talked to him very carefully and said "in the future I'm going to want the penis removed". And he said "OK, we can do a urethral relocation in the base of the penis".

So how do things like ejaculation and urination work when you've rerouted the urethra and no longer use the penis for them?

With ejaculation, just before you reach the peak, all the fluid is there at the base of the penis, and right before orgasm happens it's the urethra that acts like a rail gun and expels the semen. So when you don't use the penis, there's no force behind it. It just flows out.

What happens to the body parts after removal?

Quite a few [cutters] collect them. They preserve them, they put them in jars. One guy embedded his in plastic and now it's an ornament somewhere. This typically happens when you're in a master/slave dominant/submissive relationship and the submissive gives up his balls to his partner for keepsake. And then you get into this S&M thing where the dominant partner controls and regulates the libido of the submissive. Especially if the submissive is on say androgel where the turnaround time from full sexiness to limp dick is about on the order of a week. The reaction time for the transdermal is very fast. Whereas the injections wear off after two to three weeks. The half life of the testosterone I'm taking is eight days.

You mentioned consumption of body parts in another interview. Is that for real?

It is for real, yes. Some guys do that. Think about the Testy Festy, where they go there and every year there they have concentration of people who are into eating sheep and bull nuts and rocky mountain oysters. I know a few cutters that don't charge anything for their work, the only charge they have is that they get the nuts afterwards.

Is this something that you've tasted?

Yes, as a matter of fact they do taste a little like chicken. Actually I would have to say they taste as much like chicken as they do roast pork. But it all depends on how you cook them. If you cook them in salted butter then they might be saltier than they might otherwise be.

How do you like them cooked?

I went to a cutter's place and he was having an event where he cut a number of guys and I was assisting him there. And what I did is I cooked them up in some butter with some mushrooms. Quite good with a nice red merlot wine.

Cheers to that, Gelding.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46141079)

(Though it’s true they attack with particular fervor when this happens in media and a few other specific venues dear to their black rotten hearts)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140286)

"And yet, as soon as he focused his business attentions on the US and New York in the mid-seventies, he started to hire Jews as his closest advisers. His support for Israel has been absolute. Arguably, it is his support for Israel, and for neoconism in general (for many years, he owned and funded the losses of the Weekly Standard), that helped solidify rightwing support for Israel. (I was once at an Anti-Defamation League dinner where Rupert Murdoch presented Silvio Berlusconi an award for meritorious conduct with respect to the Jews.)" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/19/rupert-murdoch-jews-twitter

Murdoch was a big supporter of Jewish wars in the Middle East and the Jews trusted him enough to allow Fox to take off. Control of Fox passed down to his son who has white nationalist leanings and the ADL now realizes it was a big mistake to allow Fox to start up even if Rupert always toed the Jewish line. Media control has to be total because of wildcards like the Murdoch dynasty that can play out over 30 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140579)

and she just repoasts what the trannies and putting out.

odd.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140458)

Shapiro a great example of this

They are all on the same team - just playing good cop / bad cop

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140600)

why shut down the whole site sure its not entirely calls for racial violence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140461)

Pointing out that institutions controlled by jews are promoting transgenderism is "antisemitic", a conclusion that would only be correct if jew-controlled institutions were in fact NOT promoting transgenderism. If they WERE doing it, pointing it out would just be stating an objective fact, which of course cannot be "anti" anything.

BUT ALSO...

Expressing opinions unfavorable about transgenderism is equated to "antisemitism", even if Jews are not mentioned or even remotely hinted at. This conclusion could only be correct if there was some associational link between Jews and transgenderism, such as Jews promoting transgenderism. But from the first paragraph, we know that Jews absolutely are NOT promoting transgenderism because accusing them of that is antisemitic.

I WOULD REALLY LIKE A JEW POASTER TO COME INTO THIS THREAD AND EXPLAIN HOW IT ALL WORKS.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46140547)

See, you've already gravely and unforgivably broken the rules in your opening clause, before you even got to your point.

What makes you think you're more bulletproof than black-guy billionaire artist (three categories of ppl historically given extra leeway) Kanye?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46143605)

It's anti-narrative, which means you are WRONG and your entire hate-filled rant should be discarded like the garbage it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46174868)

Karlstack, do a story on this on the 30th anniversary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46141012)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46141227)

CR it's stupid to blame "the Jews" because ultimately "the Jews" are just puppets and a handy scapegoat to, uh....

*checks notes*

... "The Deep State."

No, I won't be defining that term any further. No, I won't be taking any questions. Anyway, glad we clarified this, please knock it off with the baseless and disgusting one-note shrill antisemitism. Grrrr I hate "The Deep State"! Have a good day!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46141576)

bar seems really low

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5318688&forum_id=2#46174784)