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From: jefff@cadovax.UUCP (Jeff Fields)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: So How Do We Stop It (Castration!?)
Message-ID: <131@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 20:08:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: cadovax.131
Posted: Wed Sep 19 20:08:10 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 03:27:24 EDT
Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA
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(Thomas P. Graham)
>One of the best ideas I have heard in a long time is to pass a law to require
>mandatory castration of repeat offenders (two or more convictions), while

     First off, I think this  falls  under  the  "cruel  and  inhuman"
punishment category.  The same logic would require cutting the fingers
off of habitual bad check writers.
     Secondly, castration while rendering a  male  impotent  does  not
necessarily  prevent  the  male  from  having  an erection.  The Grand
Eunuch Wei was able to seduce the Empress of China and  wrest  control
from  the  Emperor.  It has been stated in previous postings that most
rapists are impotent and don't reach orgasm.   Castration  may  hinder
rapists but it wouldn't necessarily prevent it.

    			Jeff Fields
-- 
I once was sad that I had no shoes until a met a man that had no feet.