Talks With My Father

Father: Get this, the husband of your mother’s friend Anya has been castrated.

Me: Castrated? Are you sure?

Father: Yes! Castrated!

Me: Do you mean he has undergone chemical castration?

Father: Well, I don’t know the details but he has been castrated. She didn’t want him to have any more children on the side.

Me: So he agreed to it?

Father: Oh yes, he really wanted it.

Me: Do you mean he was sterilized?

Father: Castrated, sterilized, who knows with these weird people?

This is a true story and not a variation on an old joke where a man runs into a clinic in Israel and yells, “Castrate me, castrate me now!”

“Are you sure?” the nurse tries to ask.

“This is urgent, castrate me immediately,” the man vociferates.

So the medics castrate him and the man calms down.

“Why did you want this procedure so urgently?” the doctors ask.

“I’m getting married in an hour to a Jewish woman,” the man explains.

“Oh, so you wanted to get circumcised?”

“Yes, that’s what I said from the start. Right?”