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From: welsch@houxu.UUCP (Larry Welsch)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: 60 Minutes on Rape
Message-ID: <288@houxu.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Jan-84 21:50:06 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 17 21:50:06 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jan-84 01:30:56 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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{To the eater of first lines}

What the doctors on 60 minutes were suggesting is that a some
male rapists are readily identifiable by the amount of testerone
in their blood and can be treated.  They also suggested that men
with an abnormally high amount of testerone cannot be held
responsible for their rape since the desire to rape is due to
this condition.  Men with this condition can be treated with a
drug and when treated are no longer harmful to society.  Note
this is merely a hypothesis for which they were gathering
clinical evidence.  

What is interesting about this is that women, {I recall hearing
of 1 case in England, but I don't have references at my finger
tips} have successfully used cramps as a defense for crimes and
more recently Hinckly used insanity as a defense for attempted
murder. I grant that rape is a terrible (more so for men raped
by other men) crime. However, if the condition is a identifiable
medical condition, then rapist does not deserve to be castrated
or sent to prison, but rather treated.

					Larry Welsch
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