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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP (Allen England)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Punishments for Rape
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 09:00:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  3 09:00:28 1984
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 >>Allen England says:

 >>Castration (chemical or otherwise) will cause the subject to lose interest
 >>in sex and also lose interest in raping someone.  

 >Wrongo!  Rape is a crime of violence, not of sex.  It is a crime
 >where the purpose is to dominate the victim.  There are rapes of men
 >by men.  In prison these are used to establish "pecking orders".
 >There are rapes of women by women, using foreign objects.  More
 >power plays.  If you castrate a rapist, he will only have to find
 >some other way of venting his anger.  

 >Ariel Shattan
 >..!tektronix!orca!ariels

I didn't make it clear, but you missed my point.  Castration will reduce
the tendency to commit violence, in addition to reducing the desire for
sex.  If you think that rape has *nothing* to do with sex, then you
are not living in the real world.

Allen
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