Originally posted by celticniallif this had been a male coercing a young child of 13, we would all be hankering for a life sentence and
castration.....She is no better than the male paedos.....my heart bleeds......
I think 'all' is a bit of a generalization. If we literally copy what she did (putting hand to chest) it wouldn't lack the same sexual component
with a man because only the female breast has been sexualized.
Obviously if some babysitting guy had gotten drunk and put a teen girl's hand to his chest and was like "enter me" I'd consider him rather
disturbed and want to see him put away for a good while in an institution, but I don't think I'd consider them irredeemable.
The castration approach has alway seemed rather barbaric and I always wondered whether it actually helped. Like, just look at all the issues a lot of
guys have with being circumcised against their will, I would think that if someone were violently castrated it could possibly destabilize their mind
even further and make them hate and want to get revenge on society for what they'd view as a cruel and unusual punishment.
Testosterone's probably linked pretty closely with other crimes (like assault) too, so I wonder why we're only trying to assign that punishment to
sexual-based offenses.