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Originally Posted by FrednTexas  Rape is NEVER about the sex. It's forced sex as a means of control.
This has been known for years, now. There are sex crimes which are about the sex, but they're generally of a lesser class.
In rape cases, it's the mental wounding that is never completely healed, or almost never, and when it IS healed, there are deep scars left on the psyche.
I don't know about castration, as a means of stopping this. There are some for it, but medical studies have shown that it doesn't drop the testosterone levels significantly enough for quite some time. So maybe, say, castrate, then 5 years in prison, while the levels drop? | Sure. Why not?
I don't know that it takes 5 years for the testosterone to really leave the body, but what the heck.
The thing is... Sexual Crimes are extremely serious for more many reasons.
First and foremost, they affect the victim differently then, say, basic assault or robbery. There is a reason that, throughout history, invading armies have not only murdered the men but raped the women!
Second, victims of child sexual abuse often become perpetrators themselves. Somehow the cycle needs to be broken!
Third, the rate of recidivism is almost (if not) 100%. It's almost a guarantee that a rapist WILL rape again, a child molester WILL molest again.
Testicles are NOT necessary to live. Remove them from a sex offender, and the likelihood of his being a repeat offender is diminished greatly - if not altogether. This is both a deterent to people who think sexual crimes are "no big deal" and a preventative measure against the person who has been a sexual predator.
To me it's a no-brainer. |