South Korea's parliament votes to legalize chemical castration as punishment for convicted child sex offenders (xpost from /r/worldnews)

kanuk876 · 2010-06-30T15:41:28+00:00

When someone is legitimately sick (we're talking sex with, or fantasizing about sex with, 5 year olds, not teens), and cannot control themselves - chemical castration can be a major relief. It should always be voluntary, however.

birdlives · 2010-07-01T03:10:48+00:00

I watched this a while ago, and it has a bit about chemical castration. One of the guys voluntarily opted to have physical castration just so he could get out of this pedophile institution.

They are also forced to take a test where they watch a slide show of children. They attach a ring around their penis so they can detect if they get aroused or not.

toblotron · 2010-06-30T10:48:31+00:00

Probably a good thing in some cases, it seems to me. -The "castration" is merely the addition of hormones (if I've understood it correctly), and disappear when you stop taking the hormones, so it's not like it's irreversible in case someone is falsely convicted, right?

AnnArchist · 2010-06-30T20:09:24+00:00

For a long time, this never bothered me. But the more I think about it as punishment, I can't fathom how this is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Should Octomom have a forced hysterectomy? No.

kanuk876 · 2010-06-30T14:58:57+00:00

And what do we intend to do about female sex offenders?

Oh right, we don't convict them -- we ignore them or condone their behavior, regardless of the harm they do to their victims.

And we tell the victims they are not legitimate victims.

Carry on then.

Title	South Korea's parliament votes to legalize chemical castration as punishment for convicted child sex offenders (xpost from /r/worldnews)
Author	Merwerdichliebe
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Comments	19
Date	June 30, 2010 10:29 AM UTC (16 years ago)
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