Should sex offenders be chemically castrated? I think so..what do you think?

Answer 1

i asked this same question a while ago and got a big response .. my answer is YES at the very least we should make a stand to protect our children . all the arguments about civil rights and it would be barbaric do not take in to account the damage these monsters do to there victims.

Answer 2

Should male sex offenders be chemically castrated?

No, I think in a lot of cases they are not totally to blame.

Paedophiles for example are themselves fine, they cannot help who they are, but the way I which society deeds paedophilia means those people cannot get help, the wants turn into needs, a human turns into a monster, and there is no help along the way to prevent this from happening. Not that I am condoning active paedophilia AT ALL, I am however saying that there are many people in society that could be helped BEFORE they turn into sex offenders. Prevention is VERY much needed with regards to this and with regards to others who could be potential sexual offenders.

Yes once they commit the act they go from human to monsters, but they should be given adequate treatment, and adequate punishment – a few years for raping a baby is not right, a few months for raping someone is not right – I just think jail time and therapy work a lot better, you support chemical castration that's not far off supporting the death penalty.

Castration does not change what they have done and it does not prevent them from further acts of sexual violence, it does not get rid of the mental problems that drive them to do such acts, just because the sexual urge is removed doesn't change what they are and chemical castration could prove to further their mental problems that could lead to more serious acts of violence.

If we used chemical castration on male sex offenders, what would we use on female sex offenders anyway?

Would you use chemical castration on all sex offenders from active paedophiles and rapists through to people who expose themselves or young people having sex with other young people just under the age of consent?

Answer 3

We do not incarcerate people as 'punishment' against the individual, but as protection. Society has the right to remove from it's midst those that have proven to be harmful to it.

By the same token, we don't castrate people because doing so would only be a form of punishment not a cure and certainly not a way for society to protect itself from further harm. Castrated men can and do have sexual relations, the only thing castration does is take away their fertility and lower the testosterone levels. Sexual predators are so not due to sexual needs but to psychological / mental problems.

A society is measured by the way in which it treats itself and others, these people need to be removed from society and treated for their mental problems, otherwise our laws and us would be no better than those of the old testament. Barbarian by any standard.

So, no. We should not castrate sex offenders.

Answer 4

Physical castration as well as chemical inhibitors. This means that women sex offenders (circa 27% of all sex offenders) could get equal treatment as well. We don't like to prosecute or make public suspected or actual female offenders as it's depressing to to know that there's no sex that can be absolutely trusted. Women should not only get equal treatment as far as ability to get sexual gratification is concened, but they should also get the same pre-trial publicity as males and then, as an extra deterrent to other female offenders, be subject to post trial shaming as we still put women on a pedestal re trusting them with children. Being a male dominated society still, we don't like to think that our mothers sisters daughters and nieces are capable of such things.

I trust you are not against equality for both sexes and that this answer meets with your approval, even if it does exceed chemical castration. I'm in agreement with the latter if it does the job.

Fundamentally, I'm opposed to and find abhorrent state sanctioned murder, mutilation, psycholoical manipulation and forced ingestion of chemicals or any substance of and on the individual or groups or people.
But taking you question within it's fair context dictates the answer. Besides, something has to be done and if you're going to do that then do it properly and fairly.

Answer 5

A sex offender who has offended once should be imprisoned; second time offenders should be branded where it can be seen; third time offenders should be imprisoned and then used to experiment for the cure of sexual disease, then we can use humans rather than animals and it would save having to go from animal to human-

Why castrate when we can use them like they use others. Sex offenders not only steals somebodys body for their own personal use, but they are scarring the soul for many and then filling parents and society with fear

Answer 6

holy crap that's horrible... half the sex offenders arent even sex offenders but are proven to be just cuz some slutty girl wants money and feels like filing lawsuits. Castrating somone is the worst possibly punishment that should be done to like terrorists (except not chemically). The words freaks the craps out of me

Answer 7

It all depends on what type of sex offender you are talking about, remember this is a very broad spectrum. If you are talking about the 19 year old who is on a list cause he slept with a 16 year old, then no. This is an indiscretion. If you are talking about a pedophile or a serial rapist, then yes by all means.

Answer 8

I think it would be more useful to require them to take drugs that make them less violent, more peaceful. Chemical castration does not necessarily accomplish this because sometimes sexual aggression is not motivated by sex, but by control or power or domination issues, so turning off the aggressive nerve centers of the brain would be a better protection.

Answer 9

having had a sex offender in my family i would most like to see all sex offenders painfully castrated with the biggest rustiest saw known to man

Answer 10

What do you mean Chemically? Does that mean that you take the "sex drive" away? Yes that is one way to do it.

Lots of people are saying "physically" castrate. However I do not believe that will solve the problem. It is about power. Power to dominate someone, then take control of them. Even castrated, they could still have power over someone.

Answer 11

From any legal point of view this would be considered a cruel and unusual punishment and should not be done.

I do however think they should be jailed and not released, why risk it again, keep them under lock and key.

If we gave them a life sentance and didn't try to "rehabilitate" them it would be a good start to stopping that kind of stuff.