Castrating Rapists
From the NYT:
PRAGUE — Pavel remembers the violent night sweats two days before the murder. He went to see a family doctor, who said they would go away. But after viewing a Bruce Lee martial arts film, he said, he felt uncontrollable sexual desires. He invited a 12-year-old neighbor home. Then he stabbed the boy repeatedly.
More than 20 years have passed. Pavel, then 18, spent seven years in prison and five years in a psychiatric institution. During his last year in prison, he asked to be surgically castrated. Having his testicles removed, he said, was like draining the gasoline from a car hard-wired to crash. A large, dough-faced man, he is sterile and has forsaken marriage, romantic relationships and sex, he said.
“I can finally live knowing that I am no harm to anybody,” he said during an interview at a McDonald’s here
Apparently in order to satiate his "uncontrollable sexual desires" Pavel needs to stab 12-year-old boys. Now that he's "denatured," he's found his perfect place in life: McDonald's.
But seriously, I thought we were taught that rape was an issue of dominance and power, not of sexual desire and lust. Does eliminating one's sexual desire also eliminate his desire for power and dominance? Somehow, I doubt that.
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I'll have to remember to
I'll have to remember to avoid McDonald's now.
Castration probably is a good way to prevent rape. Learning that ALL rape is an issue of ONLY dominance and power, is learning an overly-simplified version of what's really going on. In reality, a rapist has some sort of mental complex, and while the desire for dominance and power is a major factor, the pleasure a rapist feels from those things is sexual. Castration will obviously lower testosterone significantly, which will make a man much less aggressive, significantly weaker, and the sexual urges would drastically decrease. Not only would a man probably lose the ability to rape, but wouldn't want to.
When sex isn't a factor, there are better ways to achieve power.
who taught you it was all
who taught you it was all about power and dominance? don't listen to stupid people.