# Castration is starting to sound good to me... **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 17, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713 "2000-06-17T18:30:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/41 "2000-06-20T08:00:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > FWIW, I am a fairly moderate person, and if someone perfected a way to banish such criminals to, say Mars, I would support that instead the above. Some acts are beyond the pale, and should be delt with as such. > \*\* That’s called moderate?? The issue simply boils down to the fact that its near impossible to convince someone to stop doing criminal activity, be it rape or petty theft. Prison may not work but at least isolation keeps them at bay for a while and the innocent can be sent home. Chopping off this or that is just as useless but not reverseable. If you’re really in love with chopping parts off, go live in a Fundamentalist Muslim culture for a while and see what rights you have and how ‘criminals’ are treated. Its not the utopia you’d think it would be. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/42 "2000-06-20T09:12:58Z")
I have it! I have a solution to the problem! We call upon the wisdom of Solomon. During the trial, we tell rape suspects that if they willingly allow us to slice their balls off, they will go free. Those that accept this must surely be guilty, since they’d KNOW that they were guilty, and would want to avoid a trial in such a case. HOWEVER, those that decline must surely be innocent, since they’d know that they were innocent and would have faith that the legal system would find them innocent. So, those found guilty in such a manner will be castrated AND be thrown in prison! I’ve just solved all the problems with the legal system! I shall call this “Spoofian Justice”. Thank me now, little people, thank me now. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/43 "2000-06-20T13:28:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Iguana Boy, the cutting off of the hands was something that had occurred to me as well. I actually think cutting off the arms _and_ legs would be a little better. > \*\* If a person is a threat to the public, then the threat has to be removed. Arm and leg cutting sounds good, but its complicated and expensive. Can you imagine what would happen if the convict died while being operated on? We’re talking about the Mighty USA…there would be lawsuits from the convict’s family until the cows came home. If I was running things, there would be an isolated island where we would drop off criminals. A hoe, a packet of seeds and a kick in the pants is what they would get. A boat drops them off, and that would be that. Several vessels would patrol the waters around the island, with instructions to shoot anything that swam. > [@](#): > > \*\* > As for the OP, well, forcing a 4-year-old to perform oral sex…well, I’m pro-death penalty, and that sick f\*\*\*\*\* seems richly deserving. I’ve got a three year old child myself. If I ever found out that someone forced my kid to do that, said someone would never go to trial. _I_ might, for homicide, but I’d make it real easy for the prosecution. “Yeah, you bet I cacked him.” \*\* I know exactly what you mean. ---
**Author:** ![Needs2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Needs2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Needs2know)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/44 "2000-06-20T19:13:57Z")
Funny no one has mentioned chemical castration which is being used, I believe. They give sex offenders Depo Provera shots daily don’t they, then they can’t get it up. Naturally when the shots stop and the Depo leaves their system they can still do whatever. Need2know ---
**Author:** ![smilingjaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@smilingjaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingjaws)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/45 "2000-06-20T21:24:15Z")
Hooray! The Island punishment theory! I’ve been advocating this for years! Let them make their own society on the island–and find out just how it feels to have a society where the strong and the mobs make the rules! Just make sure the island is surrounded by a healthy shark population! ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/46 "2000-06-20T23:47:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Funny no one has mentioned chemical castration which is being used, I believe. They give sex offenders Depo Provera shots daily don’t they, then they can’t get it up. Naturally when the shots stop and the Depo leaves their system they can still do whatever. > \*\* I have heard that some offenders who have been chemically castrated become more violent with their victims than they were previously, due to frustration over not being able to achieve sexual satisfaction. Has anyone else heard this? ---
**Author:** ![HorseloverFat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8e8cbc/32.png) [@HorseloverFat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HorseloverFat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/47 "2000-06-21T01:06:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Hooray! The Island punishment theory! I’ve been advocating this for years! Let them make their own society on the island–and find out just how it feels to have a society where the strong and the mobs make the rules! > > Just make sure the island is surrounded by a healthy shark population! > \*\* Its been done its called Australia, its a bit bigger than an island though. Australia has sharks and those nasty stinging jellyfish. ---
**Author:** ![avalongod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@avalongod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/avalongod)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/48 "2000-06-21T02:52:20Z")
Needs2Know: quote: ```auto I think that the results on this are mixed. I don't believe it technically causes impotenct (though I may be wrong) but rather is SUPPOSED to lessen sexual desires. My understanding is that the empirical evidence on the success rate has actually been pretty bad. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Needs2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@Needs2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Needs2know)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/49 "2000-06-21T16:11:02Z")
accidently ran across this article this morning… [http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/03/01/castration/index.html](http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/03/01/castration/index.html) Need2know ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2000, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713/50 "2000-06-22T07:18:27Z")
Geez … the guy in the article fondles a 12-year-old girl and then masturbates, then has consensual sex with a 15-year-old girl, and he’s branded a “pedophile” and sentenced to 21 years?! It’s like I’ve always said … we ought to call adults who have sex with 15-year-olds “pedophiles”, which lumps them together with adults who have sex with 7-year-olds. I personally prefer the term “ephebophile” for someone who enjoys sex with teen-agers (“ephebus” being the ancient Greek term for an adolescent – the term also implied a certain set of rights and responsibilities that descended on a young man in Hellenistic Greece). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/castration-is-starting-to-sound-good-to-me/22713.md?page=2)