Inquiring Photographer: “Dr. Rachael Darden Davis introduced a bill in the North Carolina Legislature providing for the sterilization of vicious sex of offenders. What do you think of such a bill”? September 10,1959
Probably the strongest opinions I’ve yet seen in these columns. Interesting how most of the interviewed men seemed to think it wasn’t extreme enough a punishment .
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Somehow the first guy, Ed Whitteaker, sounds like he has a real moral objection to “altering a person” but Jim Donovan sounds a bit more like he is friendly with sex offenders.
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In discussing the FedEx guy in Texas, my wife and I have decided the true sentence would be to hand him over to the 7 year old victims’ family.
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John Gonzalez is the only one who’s thoughts on this are in line with modern science. Sterilisation (without castration) doesn’t inhibit sex drive, and that was definitely known in 1959. And what probably wasn’t very well known in 1959 but we do know now, is that “vicious sex offenders” don’t do it because they want sex, but because they want power over someone.
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Are Jim and Ed(very mean word) ? Infuriating.
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Jim Donovan is an absolute creep and I hope he never married, but I’m sure he did like most of the creeps back then. Ugh. “They can’t help it” 🤮
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Given we all just learned of a website where tens of thousands of men are taught how to drug and rape the women and girls in their lives, and then share the videos on a website that has 500k users, it is clear that we have a systemic problem that is not about what to do with individual cases. The most heinous rapists can only be handled with segregation after studies show they cannot be rehabilitated. For the larger number of men engaged with online degredation of women and girls, many more safeguards are needed but that is not the society we live in now. Sorry I know this is not about the article, mod delete if needed.
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Probably the strongest opinions I’ve yet seen in these columns. Interesting how most of the interviewed men seemed to think it wasn’t extreme enough a punishment .
Somehow the first guy, Ed Whitteaker, sounds like he has a real moral objection to “altering a person” but Jim Donovan sounds a bit more like he is friendly with sex offenders.
In discussing the FedEx guy in Texas, my wife and I have decided the true sentence would be to hand him over to the 7 year old victims’ family.
John Gonzalez is the only one who’s thoughts on this are in line with modern science. Sterilisation (without castration) doesn’t inhibit sex drive, and that was definitely known in 1959. And what probably wasn’t very well known in 1959 but we do know now, is that “vicious sex offenders” don’t do it because they want sex, but because they want power over someone.
Are Jim and Ed(very mean word) ? Infuriating.
Jim Donovan is an absolute creep and I hope he never married, but I’m sure he did like most of the creeps back then. Ugh. “They can’t help it” 🤮
Given we all just learned of a website where tens of thousands of men are taught how to drug and rape the women and girls in their lives, and then share the videos on a website that has 500k users, it is clear that we have a systemic problem that is not about what to do with individual cases. The most heinous rapists can only be handled with segregation after studies show they cannot be rehabilitated. For the larger number of men engaged with online degredation of women and girls, many more safeguards are needed but that is not the society we live in now. Sorry I know this is not about the article, mod delete if needed.