Dr. Pascale suggests that retirement can actually emasculate men, particularly when their wife continues working, by stripping them of their role as bread winner.
They believe that many unionists have never had any intention of sharing power, and are using decommissioning either to break the peace deal, or to emasculate the republican movement.
Earlier, UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told MPs that a failure to endorse a deadline in Tuesday's session "can only bring comfort to tyrants and emasculate the authority of the United Nations".