Chemical Castration: The Benefits and Disadvantages Intrinsic to Injecting Male Pedophiliacs with Depo-Provera

I am going to be blunt. I was a victim of a pedophile who lived next door when I was younger.

To the person who felt sorry for the poor “victim” who may himself have been raped when younger: Get over it! I don't give a rats ass if the guy who molested me was a victim when he was 4 or 7 or 14. He raped at least 7 children including his own grandchildren over the years. Those were reported. There would have been others such as myself who were not. Anybody who is in prison on at least 4 occasions for ruining another life has lost their rights to be left in therapy instead of forcibly injected with a hormone.

I found this site while looking for an alternative to killing the man who raped me. He is old and I don't know that he is still a threat so killing him seems a little unfair. I had thought that it was just one injection that would ensure that he would not have any sex drive. After finding that my idea has no merit unless I want to forcibly inject him every week I need to reevaluate my ideas and morals to look for other options. While he would not remember me once and there is no paper trail leading back to me it seems like he might catch on if every Monday at 7:00 I came calling. Unless you have been on the receiving end (pun intended to lighten the mood) of a pedophiles sickness you don't have a leg to stand on when arguing that their right to have a normal sex drive outweighs the long term damage they are likely to do to children.

I agree that you can not use this as a first resort or for a first offense. For the first offense you get counseling and therapy- but after you are convicted for the second time it is likely that you have had a number of victims and I would argue that your right to continue in the destructive direction that you have taken unabated should be terminated. These injections amount to a life sentence for the offender that he can serve outside of prison- sort of like the life sentence that my abuser sentenced me to.

Finally, for those who are worried that the rate of recidivism is high in this article; it is not the 17% that other responders claim. It may be 15 – 17% overall for sex crimes- but that includes all categories. Sexual aggressives are just under 50% and pedophiles are over 50%. That number goes up substantially when talking of young men who abuse boys they do not know and higher yet if they are already on their second offense. (You will excuse me if I don't look up exact percentages, but I am positive that everybody can google it themselves.) So if we are talking a risk of re offending of well over 50% without this therapy then I would suggest it be coupled with traditional counseling and monitoring after your first offense.

How can one get a prescription for depo provera? I simply can't wrap my head around the idea that if I voluntarily want to reduce my sex drive, I can't find a doctor what will. But if I want to have my genitalia altered to look like a female, I can find a doc for that. If I want to become infertile permanently, it's a simple outpatient procedure. But if I try to curb my appetites so I can focus on things other than sex, I have to follow a course of action that I find deplorable. Is there any way to get the medication without having to resort to feigning pedophilia?

I have been taking cyproterone for 4 months and it really works !!!! I have no sex drive and my testicles have atrophyed nicely.... no erections and penis size has shrunk from 8 down to 3 inches.....great product :O)

I myself am writing a paper on punishment for pedophiles. I find it very interesting that almost every reply to her paper has been someone who is in better words sexually disturbed or dealing with someone who is. Magazine articles can be used if she is discussing both the advantages and disadvantages because those are opinions. Opinions of whether it works or it doesnt. Though it could have been strenghten with medical information I do find this to be a good paper.

although i truely believe that the real sex offenders do need harsher punishments in most situations, i do not feel that chemical castration is a good idea for all. i am currently dating a wonderful man who was wrongfully accused of a sex crime (they have the "victim's" confession on tape) and cannot honestly think for one minute that he would have ever deserved to have a punishment like that. please do not misunderstand me or think that i am taking up for other offenders but men like my boyfriend have it hard enough as it is with having to register, nieghbors and community members treating him unfairly, not being able to continue his education for fear of persicution, etc. i think that punishments need to be handed out on a trial by trial basis and if the accused has done their time and is off paper then they need to be let go to live their lives. someone who may have been 18 and their girlfriend 16 having consentual sex and a parent gets mad doesnt deserve the same punishment as someone convicted of serial rape or child molestation.

Im a Sophomore and i am doing a essay on male petafiles. Well chemical and physical castrastion is a must i think cause if someone wants to harm a child like that then they should be punished.

I agree that chemical castration is not the perfect solution to inhibit child molestation. I think that the best solution for this is to educate people the effect of child molestation as soon as an individual is mature enough to understand this.

This makes a whole lot of pragmatic sense, and if it's true that recitivism goes from 75% to 2%, the numbers certainly seem to give ample support to using Depo. However, I think there's something a little scary about the government saying "take this medicine regularly or we'll lock you up." What are the long term effects of Depo? What about the 25% that doesn't offend again...is it fair to chemically castrate them because the other 75% is hopeless without Depo?

Where does this end if we do this? I'm sure there are all sorts of medications that reduce the urge to commit criminal behavior. Are we moving toward a time when we dope up criminals instead of jailing them? Is that necessarily a bad thing?

This is a really tough call.

Nick from Avvo

Not all women play the victim in court and are you suggesting sending sex offenders to therapy instead of jail?

Many times people speak so loud that they don’t even hear what they are saying. Lady, have you read what you said about why some of these persons do what they do? You said the following “Pedophiles commit sexual assault for a variety of reasons. Some rape children because of similar instances of abuse in their own childhoods.” Do you see what’s wrong with that statement and what you and other are pushing for?

For crying out loud woman, here you have a person who is a molester because he was molested himself as a kid and instead of helping him psychologically, you want to pump him with drugs…come on!

When I hear people saying the dumb things they do, I often wonder about their level of intelligence. Unfortunately, some of these people are so called “experts.” It’s funny how any idiot with a diploma can become an expert over night.

Part of the problem is that we as a society have become too dependent on science to fix all our problems. Unfortunately, science is like a drug, it has side effects. Just look at the way we are destroying the planet and ourselves. Just look at how our drinking water is polluted, how the meat we eat is full of hormones and antibiotics.

What people like you propose, is to punish some of these people for being victims themselves. Because yes lady, they are victims too! Hell while we are at it, why don’t we chemically castrate all violent criminals? Including violent female criminals. Let’s used drugs instead of real therapy to help these people.

I’ve always wondered why accused child molesters don’t use the victim role like females do when they step in the court. Because I find it very interesting that quite a bit women have killed or physically assaulted and injured their husbands and have stepped in a court room and claimed that they did it because they were victims of violence. The funny things is that in many cases, walk away with a slap on the back of their hands. Yet a child molester, who was abused, who is a victim, gets slammed in jail and now pumped with drugs. Why not do the same to these women who claim to have been victims. You know what they say, two wrongs don’t make one right.

Now, I understand that some molesters have never been victims themselves. They have never had a traumatizing experience that could explain their actions. These people have no excuse for doing what they are doing, but sadly, that is not true for all. We need to stop turning our backs on these victims and give them the psychological help they need. I know what you may be thinking, just because they are victims, that doesn’t give them the right to hurt others. Well, that is true, but that is also true for all other acts of violence, including the violent acts committed by the so called “female victims.”

Although I do feel that there are benefits to chemical castration I completely disagree with the author who feels that imprisonment will do nothing for recidivism rates. It will make them sneakier, but to not put them in prison at all would be extremely unjust to the victims of these heinous crimes. These people should absolutely be put away and then once they have spent their time based on their offense, they should absolutely br forced to undergo chemical castration. Of course, if there is a mental illness involved, these people should be put somewhere away from society and be given the proper therapy or treatment before being let back into society if ever at all.

I'd like to know if the use of this drug on an aggressive autistic 18-year old with extremely high testosterone levels would help in reducing his testosterone levels, thus reducing his aggressive behavior, and also reducing the amount of masterbating he does. He also fixates on people who are nice to him and gets overly attached to them to the point where he fantasizes about them.