You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

jervybingly ago

There used to be something called "Chemical Castation." The offender was injected regularly with a combination of hormones that left him with no sex drive for males or females. Maybe that was considered cruel and unusual punishment, since I haven't heard of this sort of injection for many years. I'll check DuckDuckGo and see what comes up.

Mad_As_Hell ago

It’s not meant to work though, just makes them seek more intense sexual stimulation (i.e. jerking off to porn is no longer enough) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_castration

Factfinder2 ago

Neither chemical nor surgical castration removes the sex drive completely. The rate of repeat offense is 2-5%. That's a lot of kids at risk.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3565125/

"Surgical castration reportedly produces definitive results, even in repeat pedophilic offenders, by reducing recidivism rates to 2% to 5% compared with expected rates of 50%.

Chemical castration using LHRH agonists reduces circulating testosterone to very low levels, and also results in very low levels of recidivism despite the strong psychological factors that contribute to sexual offending. Chemical castration has some advantages over surgical castration. First, although chemical castration is potentially life-long for some offenders, it might allow sexual offenders to have normal sexual activity in context with psychotherapy."

https://healthresearchfunding.org/16-compelling-chemical-castration-statistics/

"A 1960 study of German sex offenders who had undergone castration showed that they were still able to have sex 20 years after the procedure have been completed."


The problem is in their heads. But counseling doesn't help much.

http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=56645

" The general findings from the studies were that recidivism for treated sex offenders [cognitive behavioral intervention] was about 12 percent, while recidivism for those who didn't receive treatment was about 17 percent.

"That's still a pretty high recidivism rate," he said. "Especially if it's just (based on) re-arrest or re-offense rates. But it's a difference.

"So that's your take-home message," he added. "It can potentially reduce it, but it doesn't eliminate it. There's no cure."