Is A Rapist Lower Risk Once They’ve Been Castrated?
Posted by: Daniela Guernica
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10:50AM, Friday July 10th 2009
TJ Hoen MacKenzie, a convicted child rapist, recently won his third attempt to be reclassified as a lower-risk prisoner after medical treatments left him with a less raging libido. While MacKenzie still has a twig, his berries were plucked after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005. MacKenzie was arrested in 1991 for the rape and intent to rape of two girls under the age of 16. But Lady Justice Arden of the UK Court of Appeal thinks his new physical “shortcomings” will prevent him from ever repeating his heinous crimes. He’s now a Category B prisoner, but MacKenzie is in no way out the door. His lower-risk status only allows him access to courses for a release application from his current life sentence. Treatment or not, the man got what he deserved. [Daily Mail]
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GreenAura
wrote on July 10 2009 @ 11:27 am: [report]
Well, perhaps it would have the same physiological affect on a human male that it does on male animals. I know once you chop the balls off of a dog, he calms down considerably, although sometimes you still find him humping your kids stuffed animals, so the instinct is still there.
fallenangel915
wrote on July 10 2009 @ 12:08 pm: [report]
Exactly. The instinct is still there, and the mindset. Even if you cut off his penis and hands, he will still try to find a way to fulfill that sick urge.
AgentBeryllium
wrote on July 10 2009 @ 12:16 pm: [report]
Well… working with horses nearly all my life I can tell you this: there are 2 kinds of cuts and if you cut them too old then the geldings are resentful and angry. Cut them young you will get a level headed horse.
A gelding is a male castrated horse. Normally owners and vets geld a yearling (young horse) when he drops. But the main reason why they do this is geldings are usually prized for being even tempered as opposed to mares or stallions who are hormonally & sexually driven. Mares are safer than stallions, geldings are safer than mares. Most geldings are like big sweet dogs. Very sweet and affectionate and always wanting treats. However the second cut is called a proud cut, where a little bit of testicle is left behind. Sometimes one whole testicle. Which you get a gelding who acts like a stallion. These kind of horses are used to tease mares into heat.
Now for the point I am trying to make:
I personally I am not sure how it would work but I am all for medical and scientific testing on inmates. Let’s castrate them and see what will happen. They committed the crime and we have to pay for those people to be there, so let’s using them for something good and try to discover something beneficial. Castrating anything male will not prevent them from getting an erection. They might become angry they are missing a piece of their manhood and then lash out like some geldings do when they are cut too late in life.
But through testing we can find a way to make sure they never have a erection again. That would be well worth it.
Maybe put a microchip in their brain that zaps them every time the think of doing something sick like that.
egrant2
wrote on July 10 2009 @ 12:18 pm: [report]
I work in a home for sexually deviant men and women [small town USA…lol] It seems that this, in my experience, does have some affect on the libido that drives many rapists. It also seems to increase their awareness of others who can perform acts they once subscribed to very often! I agree with GreenAura, the most harrowing affects are the psychological ones that linger after the process is complete.
retro chic
wrote on July 10 2009 @ 12:34 pm: [report]
And in addition to instinct and mindset, castrated men still get testosterone (hormone of aggression) from their adrenals. So, it’s still a chemical issue too. Throw away the key.
In fact, women receive testosterone from their ovaries and adrenals (can explain a lot sometimes).
Even our *spayed* little dog “Lillers” will kill you if you try to take her favorite dry hump dolls and stuffed animals away from her. Proof enough, I say.
ChoJinn
wrote on July 10 2009 @ 12:55 pm: [report]
http://www.brainphysics.com/research/ocpara_bradford99.html
Pretty interesting. Civilization has been entrusting female sexual integrity to eunuchs for thousands of years; probably something to it.
Now, whether that escapes 8th Amendment attacks on a national level remains to be seen, but while we’re at it how about we erode some other inalienable rights? Licenses required to reproduce? Citizenship based on successful completion of some term of military service? It’s a brave new world!
theattack
wrote on July 11 2009 @ 11:22 am: [report]
This doesn’t make them a lower risk. Rapists almost never rape for the sex. It’s a dominance and control issue most of the time. Just because they can’t do it with their penis anymore doesn’t mean they won’t find another way to do it. They will be castrated into murderers. Don’t give them any slack.