I never said it would be a 'cure' to paedophilia - that would require extensive rehabilitation and psychological treatment, as I said. But as I also said, if you don't have a sex drive you can't get it up to rape a child. Pretty simple.
Please attach sources if you're going to be throwing around figures, and of course in this thread we are talking about paedophiles.
Is wiki good enough? i learnt about all this in one of my lectures, i remembered there were 4 main types of child sex offenders, only 3 of which were pedophiles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse#Offenders said:
"According to the Mayo Clinic, approximately 95% of child sexual abuse incidents are committed by offenders who meet the diagnostic criteria for pedophilia;[17] and that such persons make up 65% of child molestation offenders."
The figure seems to vary between 12% - 35% of child sex offenders who arent pedophiles. I also dont think its all that clear that we are talking about pedophiles. The issue often gets pretty mixed up, because Poland isnt targeting pedophiles [pedophilia isnt, and shouldnt be a crime] they are targeting child sex offenders. To the mainstream media and our general population this means the same thing, but theres a pretty distinct difference.
Why would castration make them more likely to attack "more brutally"? Castration significantly decreases testosterone production, which negatively impacts sex drive and violent tendancies. In which case, it would make them less likely to reoffend.
Only in some cases, and only if its forcible. I read about it in a better article than this one a while ago, but i found this just now:
Chemical Castration: The Benefits and Disadvantages Intrinsic to Injecting Male Pedophiliacs with Depo-Provera | Serendip's Exchange
"some experts argue that Depo-Provera is ineffective and will not prevent molestation. Forced castration may have the adverse affect of angering a criminal, increasing his violent tendencies and lead to additional sexual abuse"
Basically, for those whose offence had little to do with sexual gratification and more about deriving pleasure from controlling and having power over and torturing someone weaker then them, removing their sex drive will do little to stop them reoffending. If you forcibly castrate them against their will, they obviously will experience feelings of resentment, anger, rage. This is likely to be taken out on their next victim. You dont need testosterone to experience anger or to commit violent acts. Castration does make your sex drive managable [btw, they can still get it up and have sexual thoughts if they try hard enough] it reduces frustration and anger and violent tendancies, but it doesnt much change your personality.
Do they? I don't think paedophilia can ever fully be "cured" via rehabiliation, at least not right now.
*coughabortioneuthanasiacough*
I dont really know, tbh. I would assume upon release they have a right to all the normal things normal people have, it seems draconian to remove their ability to procreate upon release. Pedophilia can be managed i guess, there are plenty of pedophiles [the majority, actually] who dont attack kids and manage their problem. I am always skeptical of any claims i hear of "reformed" pedophiles. It makes me think of those gay guys who are forced to go to jesus camp and come back "straight".
Euthanasia isnt legal, even though it happens a lot, it isnt a good example of institutionalised human rights violations like this poland case is. Abortion is a better example, but i believe the issue is half side stepped in Australia, because abortion isnt "legal" exactly, there are just provisions for it if the mothers life is in danger, and those provisions are stretched and abused so that its basically decriminalised. Besides, theres still plenty of debate raging over whether a fetus is a person or not[still, you are kind of preaching to the choir]
