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From: david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: castration
Message-ID: <236@bragvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 02:39:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 02:39:01 1984
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In article <1759@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes:
>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.

The trouble is that these new-wave castrati are not prohibited from
buying replacement hormones at the local drugstore.  Surgical castration
is just an inconvenience, although it may have a certain demoralizing
effect.  

I think castration would be a more effective deterrent if performed by
militant feminists with rusty tuna can lids.

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David DiGiacomo, BRAG Systems Inc., San Mateo CA  (415) 342-3963
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