The absence of one or both testicles, whether congenital, acquired, or unexplained absence of a testicle is also unacceptable according to military standards.
Medical conditions, criminal history, age, physical fitness, and drug abuse can all disqualify you from joining the Army. Other disqualifying factors include failing to meet minimum educational requirements, having a dishonorable discharge from the military, or having a record of mental illness.
Cancer.org described risk factors as primarily being related to “an undescended testicle, family history, HIV infection, history of testicular cancer, white, and tall in height.” Considering you cannot enlist or commission into military service if you are HIV positive, have a history of testicular cancer, or suffer ...
But here is the truth: Men who have one testicle are as fertile as men who have two testicles. Each testicle produces semen and sperm.
Having one testicle removed won't affect your ability to get an erection. The remaining testicle usually makes more testosterone (the male sex hormone) and sperm. This makes up for the removed testicle. But you might feel less like having sex, at least for a while, after your treatment.
Testis, undescended, or congenitally undeveloped, is not a ratable disability. 38 C.F.R. § 4.115b, DC 7524.
Some testicular cancer treatments can cause infertility, which means that you might not be able to have children in the future. Your doctor will offer you the chance to collect and store sperm (sperm banking) before you start treatment. This is a way of storing your sperm for use in later fertility treatment.
Chemotherapy and fertility
Chemotherapy for testicular cancer causes temporary infertility in most men who have it. Usually fertility goes back to normal some months after the chemotherapy ends. But for some men it doesn't recover. This is most likely if you have had very high doses of chemotherapy.
Treatment for testicular cancer usually does not affect your ability to make someone pregnant (your fertility). But even if your chances of becoming infertile are low, your doctor usually advises you to store (bank) sperm. You usually do this before having an orchidectomy.
The ideal height requirement for men in the military is between 60-80 inches / 152-203 cm. Anyone above or below this requirement is likely to get rejected. The height limits are standard, and anyone within this height range can get accepted as long as their weight corresponds to the correct weight limit.
There are many specific medical conditions that may disqualify you from joining the U.S. Military. These include conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, heart issues, Asperger's, and PTSD.
Cryptorchidism is the absence of at least one testicle from the scrotum. It is the most common birth defect involving the male genitalia. About 3% of full-term and 30% of premature male infants are born with one or both testicles undescended. Approximately 80% of cryptorchid testes descend by the third month of life.
The short answer to your question is that it is physically possible to have an erection without testicles or a prostate, but the removal of either makes it less likely that erections will occur.
Calcifications: These are small structures in the testicle or along the main sperm pipeline (vas) can become hard, almost rock like. These are always painless and rarely need to be removed.
The concentration of sperm is what makes the semen cloudy and thick, so if your ejaculate is watery it is possible that you have a low sperm count. This doesn't mean you're infertile (so precautions to prevent pregnancy still need to be taken for couples that don't want to get pregnant).
Testosterone and Orchidectomy
Around 90% of testosterone is produced by the testicles. Having one testicle removed should not the production of testosterone unless the remaining testicle is not functioning properly. However, further treatment with chemotherapy can sometimes affect testosterone production.
So removing the testicles can help to control the growth of prostate cancer. After the removal of the testicles, the level of testosterone in the blood falls quickly. Having an orchidectomy doesn't cure prostate cancer. But it can control the cancer and reduce your symptoms.
If you have testicular cancer, the whole of the affected testicle will need to be removed because only removing the tumour may lead to the cancer spreading. By removing the entire testicle, your chances of making a full recovery are greatly improved. Your sex life and ability to father children will not be affected.
Most men who have had one testicle removed can go on to have children naturally. Men who have both testicles removed (rarely required) will no longer produce sperm and will be infertile.
In most cases, more than enough hormones and sperm are produced in one healthy testicle for both a healthy sex life and the ability to fertilize eggs.
Undescended testicles that are not brought into the scrotum from a young age will not produce sperm. Even with surgical correction, there are higher rates of infertility in men who had undescended testicles when they were young.
An overactive muscle causes a testicle to become a retractile testicle. The cremaster muscle is a thin pouch-like muscle in which a testicle rests. When the cremaster muscle contracts, it pulls the testicle up toward the body.