Testosterone
(T) is part of the animal within us. With millions of years of evolution behind
them, most boys will be masculine, no matter what their parents do. T is the
basic hormone of masculinity in all the creatures, including man, and it makes
some males rough, aggressive and lustful. I propose that reducing this hormone
by castration will effectively control the worst of our sex offenders and their
sexual violence against women and children.
Since
ancient times, it has been known that castration changes the violent behavior
of men and animals making them less violent and manageable, agreeable, and
productive partners and workers. Eunuch slaves and servants were far more
trustworthy, lived longer and were worth more than the non-castrated. The
vicious stallion, the uncontrollable bull, the kicking jackass and the
dangerous boar were transformed into a useful gelding, a quiet ox, a patient
donkey and a fatherly barrow by the simple removal of the testicles – the
main source of their testosterone.
Women
and children have been the principle victims of sexual violence by men for a
very long time. Semiramis, Assyrian queen mother from
810 to 782 BC, was the originator of the practice of castrating slaves to make
them more trustworthy, according to Ammianus Marcellinus (Book XIV, vi, 17) and several other ancient
writers. In recent years, however, Chinese scholars have shown that the use of
eunuch servants extends back as far as the Hsai
Dynasty (2205 to 1766 BC). In the early 1900s, women championed the castration
legislation in several European countries. In 1996, Susan Carpenter-McMillan,
executive director of the Pasadena Woman’s Coalition, was instrumental in
getting the landmark California castration legislation enacted. Seven other states
have followed suit and formulated similar laws that are presently in effect.
Castration
has now proven that it is the one sure way to stop sexual violence against
women (see Table 7 for data). Castration is also the quickest and cheapest of
all of the hundred-odd treatments that have been used for sex offenders to
date. Castration also extends the life expectancy of the men who are castrated
by an average of 13.6 years. These tremendous advantages must no longer be
shunned if we are to maintain a peaceful, prosperous and healthy civilization
for a protracted time into the future. I maintain that castration of the
promiscuous HIV-infected men could stop most of the sexual spreading of AIDS.
Castration has that kind of power.
In
America, we are not a homogeneous population but a great
mixture of races, ethnic groups, tribes, clans and families, each with its own
mental, moral, physical, genetic and psychological characteristics. In most
countries, there is much more uniformity, so it is far easier to generalize
behavioral hypotheses. In China, there was primarily the yellow race. In African
countries, the black race tribes are found. In the European countries, we find
primarily the white race of certain tribal stocks, which tended to keep to
themselves. In Germany, the Nordic stock actively fostered and maintained
their purity under Hitler. The Nordic countries have enjoyed greater use and
success with the castration treatment of sex offenders than the United States because they are more homogeneous. Some of these
countries are “tribes with flags,”
tied together more tightly by customs, language and ideologies than we are with
our laws and bureaucracy – not so many variables and not such a hodgepodge so
that when there is an anomaly, it is easier to recognize and cope with. Religious
differences alone can make a wide difference in testosterone levels. Men who
are hermits or monks and abstain from sexual thoughts and stimulation in some
remote cave or monastery might respond differently to castration than men who
are daily, or hourly, bombarded with sexual stimuli by TV, advertising, films,
videos and the company of seductively dressed and perfumed women.
For
many reasons, the controlled experiments necessary to define the exact effects
of castration on all of the different races and types of humans have never been
performed. Religious, humanitarian, legal and ethical considerations have
banned such measures except in the most repressive moments in history, such as
existed briefly in Nazi Germany. There are hundreds of closely controlled
scientific experiments with animals that clearly demonstrate the effects of the
operation in many of the kingdoms, species and families of “lower” forms of
animal life.
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Throughout
most of recorded history, the disadvantages of castration have generally
been emphasized far more than the advantages, so there is a general revulsion
whenever the word castration is mentioned. This tends to color our thinking as
we examine the various aspects of this simple surgery. My own opinion, after
studying the treatment for 23 years, is that the advantages far outnumber the
disadvantages; this is a subjective viewpoint from a person whose life was
saved from the ravages of prostate cancer and extended considerably by the
outpatient surgery in 1993. The castration treatment has been poorly presented
in our libraries, so even if people might want to find out about its effects,
the information is just not available to them. I have searched more than 10
libraries for information on castration or eunuchs and found nothing
whatsoever. Most of the information I found was in foreign language books
(German, French, Russian, Spanish and Latin) in our nation’s top libraries –
Washington D.C. Library of Congress; Boston, Massachusetts’ Public Library;
Vanderbilt University Library, Florida State University Library; and the
University of Florida Library. In early 2001, I discovered, by searching the
World Wide Web, that information available on castration had changed from
scarcity to adequacy. Attachment 1 lists titles of books containing information
on eunuchs and castration.
My
intentions are to make people aware of the conditions that result from
castration that are not generally considered beneficial. I recommend castration
in the treatment of sex offenders, but I know that a comprehensive
understanding by the offender and society is needed in order to achieve the
best results.
4. Contraindications.
As
most physicians and psychiatrists know, there are people with physical or
mental conditions that counterindicate certain
treatments. Albeit, in my own observations, some doctors frequently do not stop
the treatment in spite of their knowledge of unpleasant sequelae
that might ensue. For every remedy, there are side effects that may be harmful
to a person with certain preexisting conditions. There are several conditions
where castration treatment is ineffectual, or even harmful, due to these
preexisting anomalies. Unfortunately, the precise biochemistry of the effect of
the orchiectomy on these conditions has not been
completely elucidated. Therefore, the information presented here is subject to
change based on future scientific research.
One
of the most obvious indicators for when most treatments cannot be used is low
intelligence (detectable by slowness in speech and action, inability to
understand simple instructions, or inability to perform simple calculations).
Imbeciles who are obviously mentally retarded and feeble in mind are poor
candidates for the usual treatments. Idiots, whether microcephalic,
hydrocephalic, Mongolian or cretin, are also poor candidates for the castration
treatment. In general, castration is effective in reducing behavioral
disturbances involving the urge for sexual relief, but does not increase
socializing or intelligence.
In
New Orleans, on October 11, 1995, at the annual meeting of the Association for
the Treatment of Sex Abusers, Dr. Ron Langevin of the
University of Toronto stated that approximately 10% of the sex offenders
studied at the Juniper Associates Clinic over a period of years had some
physical or mental problem that made them more difficult to treat by
conventional therapies.