I believe arguments against it are that predators don't molest because of sex but power and control and you can rape with objects.
Thank you for pointing this out. It really is important to understand that. Rape is a crime that involves sex but is about power and control. "I'm going to force myself on to you because I can" is the underlying mentality. That's the bit that needs to change. I feel like a broken record, going on about responsibility all the time, but it's for a reason. The change needs to come from within.
Chemical castration can reduce the desire for sex - a function of lower testosterone, but what it won't do is change the underlying thought patterns. That is where the work is required. That needs to start from early years. Prevention over cure.
When you've listened to a man looking at a picture of lingerie and then proceed to tell you how they would rip the underwear off the model and what they would then do to the model, it doesn't take a genius to realise the thought pattern is the problem.
For those thinking that forced chemical castration is the answer, think about your own thinking and desire for control. Same underlying issue.
How are you going to ensure these men continue taking the medication? There's not enough staff as it is. What if they reoffend once released?
Make it part of license conditions. It will show in their testosterone levels - that can be monitored. If they fail to take the medication, then they get returned to prison. Lots of carrot and a little stick.
What I'm proposing is that on top of existing sentence lenghts we add more prison (or, at the prisoner's choice, and if shown to work, chemical castration).
Our prisons are bursting at the seems. We are spending an inordinate amount of money on a system that doesn't work. Prison breeds mental health issues, people end up using drugs to escape the monotony, then violence ensues when they can't pay for the drugs they've already had on prison tick. Depending on the supplier, it's not unknown for parents, siblings or children to be contacted outside of the prison and told to pay the prisoners debt or the prisoner get's stabbed/slashed or even killed. I've heard rumours of violence to innocents outside prison because a prisoner has a chit in prison.
There are prisoners who could be safely managed in less secure conditions, and those who can't. Longer time in a closed prison environment does harm. For those able to live in relative peace, something like the old community hospitals - secure, but not closed. Their own place, they are expected to manage themselves, cook, clean, etc., and manage their medication. Instead of coming to the end of their sentence and being turfed out onto the streets, they have a managed move back into the community. For some, they may end up living in the secure but not closed environment because that's what they can manage.
If they use violence, they go back to closed prison and have to work their way back out. I suspect that would be an incentive.
i realise of course that we have returned to the Victorian days of the law existing solely to protect wealth, but I wonder if you do?
It's a bit difficult to miss with Donald Trump and Elon Musk's shenanigans. It always comes back to power and control.