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You don't think that reducing testosterone and therefore sex drive will change offending rates? That is contrary to research which has reliably found that this is the best therapy, in terms of effectiveness on recidivism.
That guy didn't even commit anything just having AI imagery depicting children.
That guy has a mental problem that you can't only treat by chemical castration. He needs more than that.
He didn't just have it, he distributed it.
That does not change the fact that chemical castration is the most successful treatment we have to stop CSA recidivism at present.
Possessing and distributing images that sexually objectify children may be a crime, even if generated by AI.
Cutting off their testicles and straight up executing them would also reduce the offending rates. Even more effectively than chemical castration, I'm sure. But we wouldn't be calling that helping the offender, would we? And the comment above was specifically talking about helping them.
What we have now is more of a best middle ground between the amount of damage caused to the patient and safety guarantees for the society. We obviously prioritize safety for the society, but we should be striving for less damage to the patient, too.
Can you make someone just not sexually interested in something they find arousing? As far as I know, conversion therapy for non-heterosexual people doesn't have good success rates. Also, those therapies also tended to involve some form of harm, from what I've heard.
It's not about making someone want something, less, but helping them to never act on those needs.
Computer generated imagery could in theory be helpful, so the itch gets scratched without creating victims and criminals.
I'd call that a win-win in terms of societal well being, as also less funds are wasted on police work, jailing a perpetrator, and therapy for victim.
The Freudian concept of catharsis has been debunked many, many times. Does rape go down when freely available internet porn go up? That's a rhetorical question, goodbye.
It hasn't been debunked? I've read that raping did go down when porn became readily available. If that's not the case, then it's a whole another story.
No, I can't. Doesn't mean that we (as a society) shouldn't be working on finding ways to do it or finding alternative solutions. And it's necessary to acknowledge that what we have now is not good enough.
They probably did. But nobody here is claiming those were good or helping the patients either.