Poland to chemically castrate sex offenders

You misinterpreted the reason for putting the policy in place.

While it's true that a normal or high sex drive does not cause people to rape, don't you agree that a person who is mentally predisposed to paedophilia and rape would commit fewer crimes if his sex drive was decreased?

The correlation isn't between sex drive and sexual offence, it's between the sex drive of sexual offenders and future sexual offence.

Once again they are trying to treat the symptoms rather than the cause.

How about we try to prevent pedos/rapists from ever doing it in the first place, rather than increasing an arbitrary punishment instead. If anything, all these kinds of laws do is encourage a "the reason you shouldn't do $x$ is because you might get caught" mentality, rather than a "the reason you shouldn't do $x$ is because it is bad/wrong/etc" one.

I'll use drugs as an example - in countries such as the Netherlands, where weed is legal, they also have lower rates of usage than in some European countries where it IS illegal. This is probably due to it not being seen as "desirable" when you tell people it's not some forbidden fruit. Also, in general, cannabis-legalised countries also have much better drug-education and precautionary measures than others, who once again still tout the old "don't do it because it is bad!" line.

Oh, and before someone replies to this saying I want to legalise rape/paedophilia, no. I'm just using drugs as an example of where stricter punishments don't always reduce the crime rates, but education and rehabilitation do.

For the record, I'm not in favour of the policy for a couple of reasons.

(a) No one should have the right to alter your personality and body. These 'chemicals' effectively decrease your serum testosterone level and therefore you as a whole.
(b) How far can such policies be taken? Should we give prefrontal lobotomies to everyone with emotional problems?

You misinterpreted the reason for putting the policy in place.

While it's true that a normal or high sex drive does not cause people to rape, don't you agree that a person who is mentally predisposed to paedophilia and rape would commit fewer crimes if his sex drive was decreased?

The correlation isn't between sex drive and sexual offence, it's between the sex drive of sexual offenders and future sexual offence.

What's wrong with physical castration

Your argument hardly solves the problem. The conclusion must be supported by sufficient reason. You can't say that just because being male makes you more likely to rape in the future should be penalised by catrating all new-born males.

Firstly, I will clarify what paedophilia means as a lot of people continually misuse the term. Ephebophilia is the sexual desire for mid-late adolescents, which can generally be categorised as 13 to 18-year-olds. Someone who engages sexually with a minor is not a paedophilia, and most countries take into account the age difference of the participants. Hebephilia is the sexual desire for pubescent youths, which can generally be categorised as 9 to 13-year-olds, but it is problematic given that both sexes develop at different rates. Paedophilia is the sexual desire for prepubescent youths, which can be categorised as 0-9-year-olds or, as I have already pointed out, anyone older that has yet to start puberty. What makes paedophilia different to both the previous behaviours is the lack of sexual maturity in one of the participants, which is why it is generally seen as an abusive behaviour.

As a 21-year-old male I have absolutely no problem admitting I find some 15-year-old girls attractive, but that does not make me a paedophile – even if you want to take into account the law. Unless there is a significant age gap between partners, or an official abuse of power (parent/teacher) then most cases of Ephebophilia are not taken seriously; there are biological reasons why we are sexually aroused by young people after all. Of course, Hebephilia is generally frowned upon too because most people consider most young people ill-equipped to make the right decision regarding sex. Interestingly enough, a study has shown that the number of people sexually aroused by minors decreases significantly with the age of the child. The number of hebephilic adults far outnumbers the pedophilic adults, which indicates that most people still desire sexual qualities in their partners; our approach and legislation regarding sexual desire and sexuality still needs some work then.

With regards to the article, I believe criminalising incest was pointless. Outlawing dissent against the justification of paedophilia is just baffling on every level. I find it quite astonishing that I could face imprisonment for suggesting that paedophilia is a legitimate sexual behaviour because two of the most civilised societies the world has ever known publicly practised it.

As for paedophilia itself, the underlying sexual behaviour can never be cured in any real sense, and an attempt to cure such things says a lot more about the state of our society than the behaviour of these people, who cannot help their sexual preference; homosexuality and incest is widely practised in the natural world.

I have always felt that if society feels so strongly about paedophiles then they should execute them. It is impossible to fully reintegrate such people back into society, and locking them away or medically treating them for life is extremely expensive. Of course, few people would genuinely support such action, which highlights the ridiculous hypocrisy of our 'civilisation'.

Yes, into older people. So instead of a young rapist, you just end up with an old rapist. Sex offenders can't and won't change of their own volition, to say that they are sick would be about as accurate a description you can get. Personally I'd just cut the sickness out entirely, but I'd settle for locking them all up together on an old rusty oil rig in the North Sea and then accidentally have an old WWII mine sink the thing...

Less than 18, do them in your head...like math

Giving forms of drugs to people even if they dont WANT to? I know they're bad people and all that but I dont think anyone should be forced to take drug things or whatever it is..

Punishments and reprocussions aren't about what the offender 'WANTS' to do though are they? "I'm sorry, I may have killed someone but I don't WANT to serve a life sentence in jail" doesn't really cut it!

Spending life in jail is one thing but giving someone drugs to alter their body without their concent is wrong, and doing so does not solve the problem at all, they'll just be a pedophile thats a bit less horny?

Wouldn't 1 Viagra pill turn them around and get them ready to assault another child?

Safer would be to kill them.

Chemical castration is useless. I would prefer if their balls were cut off.