Title: What is chemical castration, why is it done and can it happen to women? | Metro News
Headings: What is chemical castration, why is it done and can it happen to women?
What is chemical castration, why is it done and can it happen to women?
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Olivia Waring Wednesday 11 Apr 2018 11:24 am
When someone tells you to ‘grow a pair’, sometimes you really feel like you want to do the opposite.
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Content: Initially it was used for the treatment of sex offenders, thought of as a cure for their problem. And as recently as in 2010, a British man found guilty of attempting to murder a 60-year-old woman in order to abduct and rape her two granddaughters agreed to undergo chemical castration as part of the terms of his sentence. But nowadays in the UK, the only common use of chemical castration in the treatment of hormone-dependent cancers, such as some forms of prostate cancer, to combat the disease. Various human hormones can be eliminated by drugs (Picture: Getty)
However last year an experimental ‘opt-in’ NHS programme saw some convicted paedophiles being treated this way, showing it still has weight in the medical and criminal world. And some may consider the birth control pill in women to be a form of chemical castration, seeing as the hormone changes it effects neutralises their sex drive. Famously, the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing was chemically castrated, in a 1952 deal with the British Government, after being found guilty of indecent homosexual acts. Two years later he killed himself. His tragic story was depicted in The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Chemical castration remains a way of punishing sex offenders to this day in many countries, sometimes resulting in a reduction of their prison sentence.