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Should all child molesters be castrated before leaving prison?

Good idea?

  • Yes

    Votes: 27 40.3%
  • No

    Votes: 40 59.7%

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    67

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This sounds like a good idea to me. I think that all convicted child molesters should receive mandatory castration in addition to their prison sentences. I don't know why we aren't doing this. I've heard that sometimes pedophiles get offered castration as a way to reduce their sentence, but **** that. Just castrate all of them I say.
 
often it is not a purely sexual thing, it can be more about power and control, or something like that.

and how would you go about castrating female child molesters?

so i dont think castrating all would be a good idea, only those whose motivations are mostly sexual
 
often it is not a purely sexual thing, it can be more about power and control, or something like that.

and how would you go about castrating female child molesters?

so i dont think castrating all would be a good idea, only those whose motivations are mostly sexual
How can you tell what their motivation is? And if they molested a kid then I don't think they really have a right to complain. That's my opinion.
 
How can you tell what their motivation is? And if they molested a kid then I don't think they really have a right to complain. That's my opinion.

well you can ask them, put them through therapy to find out, that sort of thing.

on that second point, i agree, however it's not likely to be effective in all cases
 
A german woman shot dead in court a pedophile, who had raped and murdered her child.

He had been previously chemically castrate at his request, then when that did not work, he was physically castrated, that obviously did not work, to cause an erection is a mental thing, his mind was not normal, so he could still become erect.

Pedophile should be locked up until there is a proven medical cure.
 
This sounds like a good idea to me. I think that all convicted child molesters should receive mandatory castration in addition to their prison sentences. I don't know why we aren't doing this. I've heard that sometimes pedophiles get offered castration as a way to reduce their sentence, but **** that. Just castrate all of them I say.

Ever heard of "cruel and unusual punishment?" It is against the law for a reason.
 
Child abusers of all kinds should be sterilized. I have no problem with taking more draconian measures to make it less likely for child molesters to victimize more children.

Given my druthers, child molesters would be executed. The only thing that stops me from endorsing such a policy is that it would provide a perverse incentive for molesters to kill their victims.
 
I don't see any justification for such a measure as a routine procedure, but regard it as a viable option in special cases.

No definition of and distinction between terms like "child molester" and"pedophile" has been offered.
There are significant differences in the popular, clinical and legal understanding of the terms, which call for different judgment and consideration.

I ask the topic starter to give a more detailed overview of the type of offenders and gravity of offense castration is proposed for.
 
I guess the arguement against it would be the same as those against capital punishment: what if they are innocent? Once you cut it off, it's no longer returnable, so to speak.

But just for pure satisfaction factor for the victim's family, I would support it.
 
I guess the arguement against it would be the same as those against capital punishment: what if they are innocent? Once you cut it off, it's no longer returnable, so to speak.

But just for pure satisfaction factor for the victim's family, I would support it.

what about the offenders family?
 
I guess the arguement against it would be the same as those against capital punishment: what if they are innocent? Once you cut it off, it's no longer returnable, so to speak.

That's why you only perform the procedure at the end of the prison term, so that they have time for their appeals and to lobby for an exception to be made. It is, as you say, the same as capital punishment.
 
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This sounds like a good idea to me. I think that all convicted child molesters should receive mandatory castration in addition to their prison sentences. I don't know why we aren't doing this. I've heard that sometimes pedophiles get offered castration as a way to reduce their sentence, but **** that. Just castrate all of them I say.

Why draw the line there? Do it to rapists of women. Murderers, we could chop off their hands if they used them to fire a gun or used a knife. Or lop off their feet if they kicked a person to death.

I see no logic in what you say. If it's about revenge, then I can see how you arrive at what you think. But as preventitive measures so they don't do it again, that doesn't make sense. It's not about their penis, it's about their screwed up heads. Cut it off and possibly make them loopier than they already were.

Rehabilitation / therapy not such popular words for many, but far more constructive (for the greater society) than to chop off body parts.

I watched a doco today about very small children in a hospital who'd lost fingers and hands and legs to land mines. They were trying to hold the kites the doctors had bought them between their arms cos they had no hands...

Who made those land mines? That wrecked the lives of these precious children? What can we chop off of them so they won't make land mines again.

We would be very busy lopping off body parts all over the place. Children are treated horrendously in so many ways - in so many different ways.

I find the premise in the OP of no genuine use to anything.
 
I'm not for it because currently a guy who is drunk and pees in an alley is put on the sex offender list. So are 18-year-olds who sleep with their 15-year-old girlfriends. And then there's people with mental health conditions who may not be aware of their actions, especially if they don't get treatment for their conditions.

Until we have a more nuanced approached to our sex offender laws, I don't advocate such a sweeping and drastic punishment for them.
 
Until we have a more nuanced approached to our sex offender laws, I don't advocate such a sweeping and drastic punishment for them.

This, I agree with. Our laws are in a terrible state when it concerns so-called "sex offenses".
 
That's why you only perform the procedure at the end of the prison term, so that they have time for their appeals and to lobby for an exception to be made. It is, as you say, the same as capital punishment.
Who is "they"?
A 25 year old guy who has a 17 year old as a girlfriend is committing an offense and is in legal terms a pedo in some states.
You want to cut his gonads off?
 
often it is not a purely sexual thing, it can be more about power and control, or something like that.

and how would you go about castrating female child molesters?

so i dont think castrating all would be a good idea, only those whose motivations are mostly sexual


To the bolded - female castration is simple and happens all the time in certain cultures.

Would castration end a ****ed up person's disgusting obcession? No

I say that if they can't care for children - they are incapable of functioning as a normal human and either 1) should never be released from prison. 2) should be put to death (for more extreme cases this is highly favorable) 3) well - one and two are good enough.

Far too often many people simply don't realize how much damage (mental, emotional, etc) can be done to a child which can last their entire life - leading to future problems with their spouse, children and other things in life.

A pedophile going to jail for only a short while is nothing in comparison to a lifetime of psychological issues - everything from the inability to trust others to more extreme things such as depression, paranoia and just an overall erosion of certain comforts.
 
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Who is "they"?
A 25 year old guy who has a 17 year old as a girlfriend is committing an offense and is in legal terms a pedo in some states.
You want to cut his gonads off?

Not true, but it could be stauatory rape.....;)
 
Who is "they"?
A 25 year old guy who has a 17 year old as a girlfriend is committing an offense and is in legal terms a pedo in some states.
You want to cut his gonads off?

Obviously that's not the same as Uncle Freak raping his Neice.

I feel that some laws and things are imbalanced - and statutory rape being considered pedophilia is one of them. . .They need to give more weight to consent of the younger participant and their overall other factors (maturity, etc).
 
Obviously that's not the same as Uncle Freak raping his Neice.

I feel that some laws and things are imbalanced - and statutory rape being considered pedophilia is one of them. . .They need to give more weight to consent of the younger participant and their overall other factors (maturity, etc).

....I think that until our current system of laws stops putting people like Genarlow Wilson in prison for 10 years simply because they had sex with somebody a few years younger than them, we should hold off on medieval torture techniques and stick to jail sentences.
 
If the only thing that gets someone off is a child then I fail to see how I care.
Pedophilia (real pedophilia - not statutory rape) isn't like robbing a bank for money - no one ever really is 'cured' of it, unfortunately. . . they will always be tempted and always want to do it.
And because people don't consider the dangers seriously enough we have Pedophile doctors and priests getting their rocks off every chance they can.

However - I agree, our laws are out of whack and need to be set on track if we want to get serious about ending abuse.
 
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A german woman shot dead in court a pedophile, who had raped and murdered her child.

He had been previously chemically castrate at his request, then when that did not work, he was physically castrated, that obviously did not work, to cause an erection is a mental thing, his mind was not normal, so he could still become erect.

Pedophile should be locked up until there is a proven medical cure.

They should cut off the entire unit .....no more erection.
 
They should cut off the entire unit .....no more erection.

Exactly - if someones darringer is just getting them in trouble then the whole thing needs to be confiscated.

But, unfortunately, even I know that won't cure their ails - molestation can be done with anything - and so they just need to be taken out to the pasture and slaughtered.
 
often it is not a purely sexual thing, it can be more about power and control, or something like that.

and how would you go about castrating female child molesters?

so i dont think castrating all would be a good idea, only those whose motivations are mostly sexual

These child molesters have a sexual attraction towards children,which is why they are called pedophiles. Even if they get off raping and molesting little kids they still have a sexual attraction towards children.
 
A german woman shot dead in court a pedophile, who had raped and murdered her child.

He had been previously chemically castrate at his request, then when that did not work, he was physically castrated, that obviously did not work, to cause an erection is a mental thing, his mind was not normal, so he could still become erect.


Pedophile should be locked up until there is a proven medical cure.

Is there a link?
 
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