CASTRATION

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,”[1] 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 o