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From: sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Re: Re: violence
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Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 13:54:22 EST
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> As a further continuation, there are occasional drives
> to castrate rapists.  If rape is a crime motivated by
> violence rather than sexual desire, what good will this
> do?

It's motivated by both

>      A man can still get an erection without testicles,
> so it wouldn't prevent him from raping again.  Since
> he did it supposedly not because of his sexual desire,
> the castration won't reduce his motivation.

Male hormones promote both sexual desire and agressiveness (dominance)
and therefore the propensity to enact via physical dominance (violence).
Castration therefore reduces hormonally, the propensity to rape.
Do not confuse erectability with desire.  Just because it still works
doesn't mean the same level of desire to be agressive and have sex will
exist.  The facts speak to the contrary.

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{ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny (Sunny Kirsten of Sun Microsystems Inc.)