Thread: What Punishment Would Be Appropriate To Which Crime?
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Old 01-18-2007, 08:20 PM   #37 (permalink)
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The other problem is that victims of sexual crimes often become either sexual predators themselves, or horribly messed up in some other way.

If you STEAL something of value from a 9-year old girl, she can get over it. If she's raped or molested, she never gets over it.

THAT is yet another reason why sex crimes fall into a different category than most other crimes. Victims are not victimized just once.


And let's not kid ourselves. A guy can live without his testicles - and if he has raped or molested somebody, that's a small price to pay.
I read somewhere that you don't need testicles to get an erection, so if a lot of the base problems are psychological, that may not be effective.
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