Castrate Sex Offenders?

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If a man is convicted of multiple sexual offences against children, and is found to be ‘high risk’ to re-offend, would it be immoral to castrate him before his release?

I’ve heard some people say this is ‘mutilation’ and therefore ‘inhumane’; however, if it is lawful to take away a man’s whole life (i.e. capital punishment) for committing a serious crime, why is it unlawful to take a part of his life away? This seems to me an effective punishment on two levels: (1) it takes away the root of the problem by killing the man’s libido and (2) it is a powerful deterrent to would-be offenders.***

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*****Some might ask what would be done in the case of female offenders, but I think they are rare as perverted women are usually not predatory and in any case I think there are ‘chemical’ forms of castration that can work for both sexes.
 
First of all it does not take away the problem; it only reduces it hopefully for the most part but not always. Chemical castration does not fully prevent a man from getting an erection and an offender can take pills or some other drug to counter the effects if he wants to beat the system. Physical castration is really inhumane and even this would not 100% reduce the problem. Therefore, I don’t think it is humane at all. These defendants are coerced into it by not being allowed out of prison unless they agree. However, I also don’t think it is a good idea to let these people back on the streets period.
 
Neithan said:
I’ve heard some people say this is ‘mutilation’ and therefore ‘inhumane’; however, if it is lawful to take away a man’s whole life (i.e. capital punishment) for committing a serious crime, why is it unlawful to take a *part *of his life away?
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Because while a man may lose the right to his life by a serious crime and thus be deserving of capital punishment, a man can never lose the right to bodily integrity. That’s how I see it at least.
 
You assume he will never repent or reform his character. By castrating him, you are telling him he is incapable of it ever. This is contrary to forgiving your brother 7 times 70 times. Should he decided to lead a good life in the future, you punish his wife, and punish his future children for the sins of their father by not allowing them to exist.
 
There’s a lot more I’d be willing to do to a child molester then just castrate them.
 
apricot_yogurt said:
You assume he will never repent or reform his character. By castrating him, you are telling him he is incapable of it ever. This is contrary to forgiving your brother 7 times 70 times. Should he decided to lead a good life in the future, you punish his wife, and punish his future children for the sins of their father by not allowing them to exist.
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It is not a matter of forgiveness, but of sound judgement concerning protection of the real innocent parties–the children. Any individual who has demonstrated the inability to restrain his/her sexual urges and preys upon a child should no longer be eligible to have access to potential victims by means of participation in free society. If offenders are incarcerated there is no need for involuntary castration as there is no access to children.
 
Castration would not prevent a sex offender to reoffend. Sex offenders don’t necessarily have a sexually problem that is they have a mental problem. Someone who rapes another is not only sexually assaulting them but taking control of them. Sex offenders like the control part. They enjoy having control over another human being. There are many ways to have control over another person. Using your own sexuality over another is one way. But with out getting too graphic one can certainly have sexual control over another with out using their (the offenders) own sexual body parts.

So in a nutshell, castration is only putting a band aid on a very serious cut. (if that makes any sense.)
 
st_lucy said:
Castration would not prevent a sex offender to reoffend. Sex offenders don’t necessarily have a sexually problem that is they have a mental problem. Someone who rapes another is not only sexually assaulting them but taking control of them. Sex offenders like the control part. They enjoy having control over another human being. There are many ways to have control over another person. Using your own sexuality over another is one way. But with out getting too graphic one can certainly have sexual control over another with out using their (the offenders) own sexual body parts.

So in a nutshell, castration is only putting a band aid on a very serious cut. (if that makes any sense.)
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Excellent post - and very much what I was going to say myself.

Rape and other sexual crimes are often more about violence and control than about the sexual release. Removing a body part does not solve the root problems they people actually have.

~Liza
 
I knew a man who was in a wheelchair, paralyzed from an accident from the waist down. He was befriending many children in the neighborhood. He would show movies and appeared to be a person who wanted to help children and provide them with some nurturing, and some emotional support.

He was later convicted of child molestation. I was surprised because I, too, thought child molestation was all about warped sex. But this man was undoubtedly unable to have sex because of his paralysis. He must have been getting some other type of gratification from abusing children.
 
JLSacred said:
I knew a man who was in a wheelchair, paralyzed from an accident from the waist down. He was befriending many children in the neighborhood. He would show movies and appeared to be a person who wanted to help children and provide them with some nurturing, and some emotional support.

He was later convicted of child molestation. I was surprised because I, too, thought child molestation was all about warped sex. But this man was undoubtedly unable to have sex because of his paralysis. He must have been getting some other type of gratification from abusing children.
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I don’t think paralysis affects the hormones. Castration does.
 
calchiquita said:
I don’t think paralysis affects the hormones. Castration does.
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I don’t think that hormones cause the criminal behavior, but rather the sexual nature of the behavior is just the manifestation of the evil in one’s soul Take away a man’s sexuality, and it will just show in another way.

Sometimes I wonder if focusing on the sexual nature and “causes” is really like believing ‘the devil made me do it’.
 
I am sorry, but my husband has worked with repeat offenders and they wont take their medication and they dont get “cured”.

Suffice it to say, I think they need to be removed from society permanently.
 
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