If he chooses a noninvasive method such as a clamp emasculator, this is no guarantee he will succeed without injury. It is exceedingly difficult to castrate oneself using a clamp emasculator, as any male has a lifelong aversion to testicular pain and he tends to close the handles of the clamp emasculator, usually a Burdizzo style device, slowly so as to become accustomed to the pain. This usually results in plastic deforming of the testicular cords with resulting bruising and often internal bleeding. Done quickly and with force, closing of the handles of the device results in a successful and relatively painless castration. The pain of the crushing jaws on the testicle cords is sharp but of short duration.
Recovery is usually fast and without incident.
Males who have a castration fixation or complex may seek psychiatric therapy as advised by friends or by himself. This may work to delay his castration, sometimes for years. It may also separate those males for whom castration is a temporary long term fantasy from those for whom it is a more definite and permanent complex. Therapy often results in no more answers as to why the male has this fixation, only more inadequate reasons. The male remains unsatisfied with his body and his life.