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Originally Posted by Harry
Err, yes. I have the urge to have sex loads, that doesn't mean I have the urge to rape someone. Clearly those who want to rape people have sexual urge, but I don't think it goes both ways.
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But if rape has nothing to do with sexual urge and that doesn't factor into rape, then can you explain why castration - which removes biological sexual urge among other things - is an effective way of changing the behaviour of repeated sex offenders?
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
Physical castration appears to be highly effective as, historically, it results in a 20-year re-offense rate of less than 2.3% vs. 80% in the untreated control group, according to a large 1963 study involving a total of 1036 sex offenders by the German researcher A. Langelüddeke, among others,[7] much lower than what was otherwise expected.
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