Oh wow there is more. According to this article they had made DVDs of the castrations :eek5r:


WAYNESVILLE — At least six men traveled from across the nation and abroad to learn “slave training” and have their genitals mutilated by a man they called “Master Rick” in a sadomasochistic dungeon, according to court papers and investigators.


Haywood County authorities said Friday the men were castrated during eight illegal surgeries at a home on Peace Mountain Road in the Allens Creek community. The operations took place from June 2004 to November 2005.

One of the men arrested Thursday filmed himself performing a surgery. Investigators said they found the DVD when they searched the home on Wednesday.

Investigators would not say whether the DVD was made for sale. They also would not say whether anyone was paid for the surgeries.

They believe the victims willingly participated.

Three men who lived at the home were jailed on charges of felony castration and maiming without malice and practicing medicine without a license. They were being held on $150,000 bond each.

The arrests stunned the ex-wife of one of the men charged, who said her former husband “is as gentle as a child.”

The case is the first involving willing castration in Haywood County and could be the first in North Carolina, District Attorney Michael Bonfoey said.

“This right here beats everything I have ever seen,” Sheriff Tom Alexander said.

A tip leads to a search
Investigators with the Sheriff’s Office first learned of some activities at the home about a year and a half ago when they discovered an amateur Web site that featured photographs of men engaging in sadomasochism in what the participants called a dungeon.

The dungeon included a table used to strap men down and the types of whips and chains used in sadomasochism, the using of pain for sexual pleasure.

Investigators said they determined all of the men were adults and decided the activities were not illegal.

That changed last week when Bonfoey got a tip from someone who said she knew more about activities at the house.

The woman gave a detective the name of a man who lived there from April to October 2005.

That man told the officer he met the men living in the home on an Internet chat room the year before and had witnessed six surgeries on five men.

He said he helped film a surgery on a man from South America.

Inside the house
Investigators used the informant’s information to gain a search warrant Wednesday, and found inside the house grizzly evidence of homemade surgeries.

In the first-floor room called the dungeon, they found a coffee can with bloody scalpels, a silver tin marked “used instruments,” intravenous supplies, syringes, needles, bandages, an electric shock paddle and a video camera and tripod.

In another first-floor room, the investigators found a Physician’s Desk Reference book along with stacks of CDs and a computer.

An invoice for lidocaine, topical pain relief medicine, was in the kitchen.

A plastic container in a freezer contained what one of the suspects said was human testicles.

The equipment, according to court papers, was used for removing testicles in castrations and at least one penis removal.

The informant told investigators a man from Chile had his testicles replace with artificial ones called “neuticles.” He later traveled back to the house to have them removed because “they were too large.”

DVDs discovered listed Peace Mountain Enterprises as the production company and surgeries performed by “Master Rick.”

Suspects arrested
Investigators said in court documents that the three men arrested are “sexual lovers and have a master-slave relationship.”

Michael Mendez, 60, and Richard Peter Sciara, 61, moved to Western North Carolina from Topeka, Kan. Danny Carroll Reeves, 49, moved to the area from Atlanta, Alexander said.

One man getting a surgery was from Kansas City, investigators said.

Mendez and Reeves worked together at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, where Mendez was honored early this year for his work.

Mendez received $1,000 and a commemorative crystal award for being named one of the 2005 “Shining Stars of the Year,” according to a news release sent to area media outlets in February. Mendez worked at the casino as a Total Rewards representative, providing incentives for guests.

Sciara was known as “Master Rick,” according to court papers.

Mendez’s ex-wife, Anne Moriarty, who lives in California, said she and her former husband have a son and daughter together.

“This sounds highly unlikely,” said Moriarty, who has not kept in touch with Mendez since he moved to Haywood County. “I mean, this guy is as gentle as a child — the guy I know.

“The idea that he could be involved in anything like what you’re talking about is unimaginable. Totally unimaginable.”

People who live in the quiet and wooded Peace Mountain Road neighborhood said the men who rented the last house in the development never spoke and rarely waved as they passed in their cars.

Emily Kurtz, who lives nearby, said she had noticed men in cars with out-of-state plates visiting the home off and on since she moved to the neighborhood in January.

On Friday, after learning about the crimes, she considered moving.

“I’ve got children in the house,” she said.

Sex, or something else?
Court papers and the sheriff said the surgeries were done for sexual gratification, though some experts said that would be rare.

“The people who I have seen who have undergone voluntary castration have been psychotic and often in the grip of a delusion that their sexual organs were causing them to behave in evil ways,” said Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University.

“And they felt that to rid themselves of that evil, it was necessary to rid themselves of their sexual organs,” said Appelbaum, a past president of the American Psychiatric Association.

Robert McDonald, an Asheville psychologist with 21 years’ experience, said he’s never heard of voluntary castration as part of sadomasochism, and that it doesn’t seem to fit because S&M behavior tends to be an ongoing lifestyle.

“I can’t imagine an experience that’s relatively this brief and that would change one’s being and behavior for such a long time being worth it,” said McDonald, who also serves as the vice chair of the N.C. Association for the Management and Treatment of Sexual Offenders.

“That’s a remarkably unwise and difficult to understand behavior. Even if they did get off on the surgery, how long is it going to take? And then it’s going to affect the rest of their lives.”

Some men do have a syndrome known as gender dysphoria disorder.

“There are men who have very negative gender images,” McDonald said. “They hate the manifestation of their masculinity. They detest their genitals.”

Some men have some past behavior that drives them to believe they should remove their genitals, he said.

The Internet, McDonald said, allows relatively small groups of fetish practitioners to get together and receive social reinforcement from one another.

“One thing we’re finding is through the Internet, people who have the rarest and most bizarre needs are able to find each other,” he said.

Because it eliminates the sources of masculine hormones, orchiectomy — surgical removal of the testicles — is a form of sex change for some people.

The surgery can be a less expensive alternative or intermediate step to a vaginoplasty procedure, which involves the creation of a vagina.

It’s most often performed by urologists or endocrinologists, according to an online resource for transsexuals. One surgeon who posts prices online charges $2,000 for the procedure.