off the back of the other thread, aibu to think that chemical castration for child rapists might be a workable solution

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Obviously, I realise even that is quite drastic, so I'm not talking about people who've downloaded porn, even if it is category 4 or 5. But people who have raped infants.

I am asking the question though... NOt arguing FOR it. Is it workable???

I don't think public stoning would be necessary, if we knew who the paedos were - that slightly creepy old man down the road etc. We could just warn our kids, keep them away, and keep an eye on what's going on in our community. As it is, I could have one next door but how would I know?

There is a difference between a child sex offender and a peadophile. The former commits and offence against a child but also has a sexual attraction to adults, the latter has a sexual preference for children

Trying to rehabilitate a peadophile to stop em fancying kids is like trying to therapise a gay person into being straight.

a bullet in the head

that will give a 100% success rate to stop paedophiles from reoffending.

Did any one watch the dispatches programme on chanel 4 last night? Jaycee Lee was abducted by a known sex offender (rapist) and held for 18 years. He should be shot.

Castration, as tempting as it is, isn't really the answer.

The biggest sex organ is the brain - only by removing that will you remove the deviancy.

Can you castrate a women?

On Radio4 today they interviewed someone who had done some research (I think in Canada) and said that the victims of abuse were saying that 25% of the perpetrators of the abuse were female. So how will you castrate them?

Clearly we need to perform lobotomies on a grand scale.

no its not.

It is not 100% effective. It is very difficult to accurately dose and costs a lot of money.

and why only child rapists?

nannynick - Its actually more like 32% of all sexual abuse being commited by females.

Nope, chemical castration won't work. Drugging people doesn't necessarily change their behaviour and is a very imprecise science anyway. Very intensive psychotherapy is probably the only thing with a chance of working, and it won't work in all cases.
No one has yet found a way to deal with that small minority of extremely dangerous individuals that is not in itself far more damaging to society in general.

paedophilia deviancy is situated internally within the mindset,the predilection,and frankly castration doesn't remove the urge

ok let me bring out my trusted but well flamed explanation.

Think of paedophilia as a similar thing to homosexuality ( yes yes i know its very different as one involves consenting adults the other doesn't etc etc)

would giving Elton John a pill to stop him being able to get an erection stop him being gay?
It may indeed lower his libido but it wouldn't make him no longer find men attractive.

the same works with chemical casration.

They give the pill which lowers libido and in some cases prevents erection. it does make the person less likely to seek a partner (because for true paedophiles they see it as a mutual loving relationship) but it doesn't mean that they won't still find children attractive and desireable.

paedophilia is a sexual orientation. it is one that as a society we simply cannot accept but it no more "cureable" than homosexuality was 100 years ago.

psychological urge will not be removed by physical castration

the predilection
urge
morbid fascination remains
as it is internally located

I'm with madusa and babybarrister

Isn't rape in particular a crime borne out of control, not sexual desire??
If it is, then castration would be ineffectual.

It is called Rape whenever a child is involved because a child is unable to give consent simply because they are a child.

IN most adult cases yes it is about control and power and in some child abuse cases also.

That was why i said that in true paedophilic cases they believe that consent has been given and that they will often believe that it is a mutal loving relationship.

an adult forced into sexual act doesn't give consent either.force and brutality strip the individual of choice and that is what is brutalising the force and coercion.an aggressor exerting control

no sorry what i meant was that teh reason it is alwasy reffered to as rape when a child is involved is because they are legally not able to give consent

yes,that is right