Originally posted by twenty6I don't think it would be effective.
To Clarify - use castration as a punishment for paedophiles, violent/serious/rapists. This then would deter other would be, paedophiles, violent/serious/rapists because they don’t want to lose their penis.
Men generally are adverse to anything that involves damaging or removing their genitals
It doesn't tackle the root [unfortunate pun] of the problem: namely, why is someone disposed to act in such a manner? What aspects of their own sexual development have led to deviance from the norm?
These are the questions which should be addressed not some lynch mob return to an age of barbarism.