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.
Clinical trial paedophilia

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Can a woman be chemically castrated? How long has the process been used, and for what purpose? Surgical castration is very common in animals but in humans, chemical castration has been used in some cases for about 80 years (Picture: Getty)
Chemical castration is a legal body chemical treatment that has been used since around 1944 to reduce the level of testosterone in men, and also in women, seeing as the hormone triggers the sex drive in both. It is done through the administration of antiandrogen drugs, either in pill form or more commonly via injections. 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.