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

You're going to have to go back and do this again because none of your references is anywhere near adequate. You cannot use online magazine articles as references; they are opinion, not fact. In addition, if you trace the references of those articles, they refer to other opinion pieces and not factual studies. Your other references are broken.

My advice: research this topic properly by studying adequate sources, such as academic journals.

being chemically castrated should only be reqiured if the male criminals are actively engaged in sex crimes. It is true that molestors should face the consequences of the problems they caused. not only should males, also females(if possible). it shouldn't matter if they rot in jail but it should be used in prison too. the reason why there are so many prison breaks is because being raped in jail may be the problem. if they(prisoners) are castrated it will probably stop the rape and stop the rape in the outside world...

I am a 53 year old male. As long as I can remember I have been experimenting sexually on my self and sometimes without much success tried to involve my wife. I am not a sex offender, but my experiments often posed a threat to my own health. I was constantly mentally occupied contemplating what I could and wanted to try but knew could be dangerous to my own physical well-being.
Some time ago I obbtained 8 vials of depo provera 150mg. And I started injecting 300mg per week. After two weeks I started feeling sexually more relaxed. My constant thinking about sexual experiments had seized, no more daily masturbation, etc. Sex was no longer on my mind. No frustration when my wife did not want to have sex. Not to mention the time I saved by not exploring the web for sexually explicit pictures. I stopped using DEPO 2 months ago. The urge is returning and I am not happy about it. I should try and get more.
Depo provera should be freely available. It would limit the number of frustrated men and women.

I agree with the other comment regarding your references being incredibly poor and inadequate. It seems to me you are writing purely from opinion, only including references to give it viability. Unfortunately, other students' papers and online opinion pieces don't prove anything. Seriously, you could use google and end up with better refs in 5 minutes.

Hi
(for the third time, this web site is not stable)
I read your story with great interest as I am similarly afflicted. All my life I have had sex where ever it was available, tall, short, fat , thin, nice, ugly, prostituts, anything with a hole and all caution thrown to the wind, at at what ever risk. It has cost me 3 marriages and many relatonships but at over 60 I need to settle down and save my present relationship. She has put up with things no woman should do and yet she is still with me and now I have to make sure I dont do it again, so depo provera seems a solution, well at least a help. So I have already decided to use it and i see you you took 300mg by ijction per week. How did you come by the dosage, was this advised to you of just your judgement.
You also said you stopped taking it and in 2 months you could feel it wearing off, so what would you recomend the time period between taking injections, as if it takes 2 months, maybe a shot every month would be ok, what thoughts do you have on this. I have never used a hypo on myself, when you inject this type of drug, where do you do it, into a vein or just in the arm muscle.
Thank you for your article, I tink there must be a lot our there like us.

Regards Richard

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.

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.

So for references, it looks like we have nothing more than the viewpoints of politicians and the un-referenced "research" of other authors, one of them a student herself, and at a community college, no less.

When I entered the words "recidivism rate for sex offenders" into Google, the very first listing was a page of statistics from our very own Bureau of Justice that strongly contradict your 75% estimate of recidivism. It took me 30 seconds to find that information. I would have expected better research from a Bryn Mawrter.

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.”

I know someone who is taking Provera orally, 10 mg daily for about three months. He says he still has high sexual fantasies and has not felt a decrease in his libido. How long does it take for provera to work and what is the normal dosage. Will this cause a man's breasts to grow like a woman. I can't find any articles for men who use provera.

Thanks in advance,

William

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

Many non-violent sex offenders, after arrest on a first offense, are anxious to control their abnormal sexual urges. If castration will help them to prevent a recurrance of the offense, then it should be offered as an option before sentencing. While chemical castration is a viable method, it does have certain drawbacks as mentioned previously. I would propose surgical castration as the true solution to prevent sex offender recividism. Surgical castration would have to be a voluntary choice on the part of the offender, however.