Chemically Induced Impotence for Pedophiles and Rapists?
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Chemical Castration Debate
In the Czech Republic surgical castration is the fate of some sex criminals. In Louisiana Republican mastermind Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed legislation requiring certain sex offenders be “chemically castrated.” (As do Texas, Florida and California.) Poland and Spain are considering mandating it for pedophiles.
Ales Butala, a Slovenian human rights lawyer who led the Council of Europe’s delegation to the Czech Republic, argued that surgical castration was unethical, because it was not medically necessary and deprived castrated men of the right to reproduce. He also challenged its effectiveness, saying that the council’s committee had discovered three cases of castrated Czech sex offenders who had gone on to commit violent crimes, including pedophilia and attempted murder.
The father of a boy who was murdered by a man sexually inflamed by a Bruce Lee movie says:
“These people must be under permanent detention where they can be monitored,” he said. “There has to be a difference between the rights of the victim and the perpetrator.”
Europeans Debate Castration of Sex Offenders
Rendering rapists and pedophiles impotent seems like more useful and humane than posting their names to sex offender websites.
See also Therapeutic Testicular Pulpectomies
