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Old 07-06-2006, 01:28 PM
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Default Castration for sex offenders

This is an article I came across this morning. It starts with a sex offender in a Virginia County Jail who castrates himself with a razor. He said he didn't want to molest children anymore, he also had another motive, being that he thought castration might keep him out of the State prison.

Since cutting off his testicles and flushing them down the toilet in his cell :shudder: he reports he is finally free of fantasizing about children and he no longer has the urge to molest.

The article goes on to discuss castration,(chemical & surgical), which states allow it and argues both sides about it's effectiveness on sex offenders.

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"Castration does not completely erase sexual arousal or function," Dennis said. "It doesn't completely obliterate arousal, drive or the ability to commit a sex act."
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Dennis Carpenter, a clinical psychologist called by the defense, disagreed. Studies have shown, he said, that castration sharply reduces the risk of repeat offenses.

One Danish study suggested the rate of repeat offenses dropped from 80 percent to 2.3 percent after surgical castration.
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I wonder if being castrated would drepress and enrage someone to continue attacks on victims. Is is strictly a sexual urge that makes someone rape? are they not getting something else out of it, emotional or psychological?
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