Do you support castration for convicted sex offenders?

Question

Why or why not?

Tera: Although I would support it if it were worked out that all sex offenders would have it done (including women). Of course it would also have to be done systematically.
I think that the purpose of it would be to remove the chemicals that are transmitted to the brain through the genitals, hormones and what not. It might help.

edit: When I think about it more I would not support it because I don't trust judges and politicians would not make this another aspect where men would be teated unfairly.

Answer 1

No. What will you do to the women that are sex offenders?? I've heard stories of women who slept with a guy voluntarily and then accused him of rape. What justice?
Like another person on here said some got caught peeing in public and got busted for indecent exposure and got labeled as a sex offfender. But what about the women who walk down the street half naked? Who ever wants to commit a crime like that will do it with or without their d***
Look what happend to the girl in New Jersey who was gang raped by some of the guys on the football team they raped her with a broom stick and a bat. Castration... solves nothing.

Answer 2

Because giving government even more power over people is a bad idea. It already (in the U.S.) has the ultimate power of life and death over people (execution) so why would you want to give it more? Chemical castration (using implanted, long-acting meds that block testosterone) seems like a much better option. Many of these men actually don't want to have the feelings/desires they have.
Also, people forget that in many instances, sex offenses are more about violence than they are about sex. Many do not even involve penetration of any sort, so castration would not stop those people.
I've heard stories about people urinating in an alley getting busted for public exposure and being labeled a sex offender. Should that person be castrated?

Answer 3

The Ten commandments are at the arc of the coven net My Interpretation of a sex offender is somebody with a broken Home Like Michale Jackson who has mental Problems and needs help chopping off there penis will not solve there mental problems somebody that would want to chop of somebodies penis would have mental problems there self.

Answer 4

No. There are other forms of violence men can and do use to control and harm women and castration does not address those issues. They do have 'chemical castration' to take the sexual urges away but it's been proven not to work with released convicts because the guys stop take the meds. Violence starts in the brain, not the sexual organs.

Answer 5

No, I do not. Castration won't stop violent behavior. In fact, it may increase it. Sex offenses aren't as much about sex itself as it is about acting out aggressive impulses (and deriving pleasure from acting out these impulses.). Aggression can still be carried out without a penis. Case in point: there are men who rape women with (sorry for the explicitness here) with bottles, sticks, and other objects and do not use their penis at all. The sexual excitement they get from this stems not from the stimulation of the male organ but from the pleasure of the sadistic, physical and symbolic degradation of the victim. Rape really is an expression of power and control, tied to aggression, imtimidation and fear. Castration will not stop this kind of person from committing further acts of violence. And, in my opinion, (though many may disagree with me), castration is cruel and unusual punishment. Not that the crimes this person commits aren't also cruel and often unusual (they are)- but the person who commits such offenses is a mentally ill person. Is it just to punish a mentally ill person with physical torture? Some may say yes, but I do not agree. What must be done must be done to protect society from further harm. Castrating someone and setting them free is like lighting a match to a bomb and throwing the bomb onto a crowded city bus. People are going to get hurt. I believe that sex offenders are for the most part incurable, and to allow them to continue to prey violently upon society gives such a person an opportunity to continue to harm, and, the harm such a person will inflict will continue to escalate in intensity. Many serial rapists (uncaught or un-confined) will eventually become killers. Their crimes escalate because they become more and more de-sensitized to the crimes they commit...they need further stimulation to derive pleasure from their acts. Killing someone, for these persons, becomes the ultimate act of control and aggression. These people need to be kept confined for life. Castration will do nothing to deter such people from harming others.

Answer 6

Sex offenders can be too broad a term.

Streakers are classified as sex offenders. Should we castrate someone for streaking?

The category of sex offenders is too broad, it needs to be separated down into categories. Once that's done, yes, some of them should be, depending on the nature of the crime.

Honestly, rape should be a capital offense, not just castration.

Answer 7

Lorraine Bobbitt did it, when she self-convicted her husband. But that's another topic. The only problem I would have with the castration, would be the falsely accused. I don't think they would preserve the "castrated" part for "re-implantation," should the falsely accused be set free.

So to answer the question? No. I do not support castration. I would however, support serums that causes impotence, but that would be another subject as well.

Answer 8

Yes, especially for those convicted of sexually assaulting children.
I say yes because usually someone who commits these crimes does not just do it once.
I would rather have my kids, any kids for that matter safe.
In the long run if we have to keep sending someone like this to prision again and again wasting our courts time and money.
Just cut it off and save everyone the trouble...they deserve it anyway.

Answer 9

Mike T again, well I have my answer. You're sick. By your logic people who wrongly accused murderers should be put on death row too.
I don't support castration, but I would be in favor of harsher punishments, like actually spending time in jail. None of that probation crap.

Answer 10

Depends on the offense
Depends on whether it is voluntary.
Depends on the age of the perpetrator
Depends on the condition of the offender.
Way too ambiguous of a question for deep thinkers, such as I.
Become a lawyer.
Or not.