Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cadovax!jefff 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 Lines: 20 (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.