The CASTRATION Issue: Animals & People
Alan H. Peterson
As you are probably aware, public policy has repeatedly shunned the
proven-effective Castration treatment (and NOT a punishment) for repeat
sex offenders, while many other psychological, sociological, educational
and legal cures have been attempted as great expense. Society, as we
know it, has tried dozens of these "alleged cures" and have continually
found them wanting.
Sex crimes, especially those perpetrated by repeat offenders continue to
proliferate, and all the while, the one obvious treatment that WORKS
remains unused. CASTRATION! But, extreme measures such as electric
shock therapy, lobotomy and execution are far more frequently used. By
now, it should be obvious that we (they) have been on the wrong track.
Considerable research and readily-available information more than shows
that castration is effective in preventing rapists from raping again.
Historical information dating back more than 3,000 years shows that
eunuchs were especially valuable to emperors, kings, chiefs and other
ruling officials for their trustworthiness, honesty and resistance to
sexual temptation and additional data from Russia, China, India and
Turkey verify these qualities in castrated men. Information on animal
husbandry, dating back 100 years or more, shows the pacifying effects of
castration in sheep, goats, cattle, horses, cats, dogs and domestic
fowl.
The sex hormones in other animals are the same as in men, and they have
very similar effects on behavior. The present science of human
endocrinology originated with animal castration experiments. Studies
have correlated testosterone levels in the blood of different animals
perfectly with their levels of aggression. Humankind is in the
mid-range of testosterone levels and aggression. Castrated bulls become
hard-working, docile oxen. Doves, near the bottom of the table, are
gentle, loving creatures.
Testosterone IS the hormone of anger, aggression, hostility, fighting,
struggle and irritation. The aggressive instinct is eliminated by
castration...for all practical purposes. This means that all other
violent crimes will be sharply reduced as well. As the 1966 study, "The
Territorial Imperative" points out, there are two ways to cope with
aggressive emotions and situations: (1) to defy or (2) to defer. The
castrated person tends to defer, and the aggressive behavior does not
result -- a crime -- (perhaps, against women, young male or female
children, or fellow incarcerated inmates) is averted.
Far from being a punishment, castration considerably extends a man's
life, and makes him happier and healthier. Together with adrenalectomy
or its chemical equivalent, castration (or bilateral orchiectomy) is
usually the cheapest and most effective treatment for cancer of the
prostrate gland. Orchiectomy requires only about half an hour and is
usually performed on an outpatient basis, but such treatments as radical
prostatectomy, radiation, chemotherapy and monthly androgen shots (each
more costly than just one operation) are far more often used.
After reading "A Brief History of Castration", newly published in 1995,
it has become very evident that considerable research findings virtually
"prove" that Castration IS effective in preventing rapists from raping
again. It is evident that this exhaustive work was researched and
carefully written and also reminds us that castration is still employed
"surreptitiously" for profit by the harem guards of the Muslim world in
Arabia, Morocco and other parts of Africa. To continue to utilize the
practice,there must be a foundation for Castration's effective use and
application. There must also be evidence abound in these nations that it
works!
Aside from that, a Maine House of Representatives bill was introduced
as an effective means of asexualizing child molesters. It failed to
pass, but $5,000 was approved for the study of the use of "chemical
castration" with DepoProvera.
In general, castration is mentioned frequently on occasions where the
public has been stirred up by reports of especially heinous crimes --
namely those perpetrated against young children by offenders who have
been "treated" somewhere within the brutal and reportedly inhumane
prison community or have "maxed out" on their sentences, and thus have
been released back into or "on" society.
"The American Focus on Rape: Rape IS A Sex Crime" is still another vital
resource that focuses directly on not only the key aspects of rape, from
the awareness, training, intervention and prevention effort, but also
castration from A to Z. There are a host of resource tools which you
should now become aware of, because they were "recently" created with
the your health and safety as well as that of your family, and
especially your children, in mind. If you are not aware of these new
reference and research tools, e-mail me and I'll refer you to their
respective sources.
Have you ever thought about castration as a positive action in
preventing disease? Several diseases can be prevented or cured by
castration, including and not limited to: testicular cancer,
epididymitis, male breast cancer, lymphedema, testicular torsion,
hemospermia, balanitis, hydrocele, viral hepatitis and glaucoma.
Priapism, baldness, acne and some signs of aging may also be averted.
Cancer of the prostate overcame lung cancer in men in the United States
in 1990. Virtually all American men will have some version of prostate
cancer if they live long enough (by age 75 or 80). Castration offers a
greater life expectancy for the average man -- a whopping 14 to 15
years.
From the standpoint of rapist and sex offender rehabilitation, if given
the option, it is greatly anticipated that more rapists, repeat sex
crime offenders and other "victims" of testosterone's mad rampage, will
request castration instead of hospital, diagnostic center confinement or
the brutality of mainstream "general population" in America's prisons.
Castration may be the best remedial procedure which could virtually
offer a change from a criminal lifestyle to the lifestyle of a
productive citizen and would most certainly reduce the sex-crime
statistical picture in our society.
You may not realize it, but Castration is much simpler, less invasive
and much more beneficial than the common vasectomy.
But, IS castration the most-effective, least-expensive, most-beneficial
way to stop the violence and the pestilence we now suffer, as a society,
from rape and child molestation?
Overwhelmingly Yes! Castration can and will prove to provide new
beginnings for us all.
What are your views? I'd like to know. E-mail usc...@haven.ios.com
Thanks.
Mishelle Fresener
I just have one question. What does this have to do with the health of
dogs??
inx.netcom.com
> > husbandry, dating back 100 years or more, shows the pacifying effects of
> > castration in sheep, goats, cattle, horses, cats, dogs and domestic
> > fowl.
>
> >
> > Cancer of the prostate overcame lung cancer in men in the United States
> > in 1990. Virtually all American men will have some version of prostate
> > cancer if they live long enough (by age 75 or 80). Castration offers a
> > greater life expectancy for the average man -- a whopping 14 to 15
> > years.
I do beleive that preventing prostrate cancer in dogs is also a reson to have them neutered.
WallyCycle
>> > Cancer of the prostate overcame lung cancer in men in the United
States
>> > in 1990. Virtually all American men will have some version of
prostate
>> > cancer if they live long enough (by age 75 or 80). Castration offers
a
>> > greater life expectancy for the average man -- a whopping 14 to 15
>> > years.
> I do beleive that preventing prostrate cancer in dogs is also a reson to
>have them neutered.
>
>
As a fit and healthy 55-yr male who has been convinced of the value of
neutering and spaying since childhood -- thanks, but you may have shared
way-y-y too much! :^)
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die
I want to go where they went."
Warren and Carolyn Puckett (& Abby, April, Toonie, Buddy and Lucy)
Wally...@aol.com
Thorsten Guenther
> Information on animal
>> > husbandry, dating back 100 years or more, shows the pacifying effects of
>> > castration in sheep, goats, cattle, horses, cats, dogs and domestic
>> > fowl.
I.o.w. the animal loses quite a bit of it's personality and most of it's
sex drive.
BTW, castration of humans shows the same effect.
Thorsten
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