The rules read as extreme and were enforced by nobody — members left when they wanted to, and hundreds did over twenty-two years, some returning years later. The uniformity was chosen for a stated reason: to remove the surfaces on which a human personality reasserts itself. Names ending in -ody, identical clothes, identical haircuts, and a system of tasks assigned rather than picked. The castrations in the mid-1990s were elective, sought by the members concerned, performed by a surgeon in Mexico after US doctors declined, and are described in the group's own material as a straightforward extension of the same reasoning about equipment.