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Castration in Europe

By Corey Rayburnyung

The New York Times has an article on the debate over castrated sex offenders in some European countries:Whether castration can help rehabilitate violent sex offenders has come under new scrutiny after the Council of Europe?s anti-torture committee last month called surgical castration ?invasive, irreversible and mutilating? and demanded that the Czech Republic stop offering the procedure to violent sex offenders. Other critics said that castration threatened to lead society down a dangerous road toward eugenics.The Czech Republic has allowed at least 94 prisoners over the past decade to be surgically castrated. It is the only country in Europe that uses the procedure for sex offenders. Czech psychiatrists supervising the treatment ? a one-hour operation that involves removal of the tissue that produces testosterone ? insist that it is the most foolproof way to tame sexual urges in dangerous predators suffering from extreme sexual disorders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).