Depo-Provera drug can cure sex offenders
<b>Grain of science</b><br>Studies at Johns Hopkins University showed that treating sex offenders like paedophiliacs with the drug, Depo-Provera leads to their improvement and self-regulation of sexual behaviour, if you include counselling.
Grain of science
Studies at Johns Hopkins University showed that treating sex offenders like paedophiliacs with the drug, Depo-Provera leads to their improvement and self-regulation of sexual behaviour, if you include counselling.
Depo-Provera is an anti-androgenic hormone which suppresses or lessens the frequency of erection and ejaculation in men and also lessens the feeling of sexual urge (libido) and the mental imagery of sexual arousal.
For the paedophiliac, for example, there will be decreased erotic ‘turn-on’ to children. Metaphorically, Depo-Provera takes the sex offender on ‘a vacation’ from his sex drive, during which time, counselling therapy can be effective.
The drug is a long-acting, injectable form of a synthetic progestin. As an anti-androgen, it inhibits the release of androgen, the so-called male hormone, from the testicles.
That will mean that the body will have more progestin to take over androgen, which is a sexual activator. Progestin in the male is sexually inert. It therefore induces a period of sexual calmness in which the sex drive is at rest.
In the past, such sex offenders were castrated. But today, surgical castration is irreversible. Depo-Provera treatment is better because the patient can be weaned off gradually, lowering the hormone dosage.
It is possible for the patient to discover how completely he has become relieved of the tendency to engage in the offending behaviour, both in actuality and in imagination.
It is believed that in many cases, there is long-lasting remission, so that the patient is no longer compelled to commit sex offences, but is enabled to have a sex life with a socially suitable consenting partner instead.
Studies at Johns Hopkins University showed that treating sex offenders like paedophiliacs with the drug, Depo-Provera leads to their improvement and self-regulation of sexual behaviour, if you include counselling.
Depo-Provera is an anti-androgenic hormone which suppresses or lessens the frequency of erection and ejaculation in men and also lessens the feeling of sexual urge (libido) and the mental imagery of sexual arousal.
For the paedophiliac, for example, there will be decreased erotic ‘turn-on’ to children. Metaphorically, Depo-Provera takes the sex offender on ‘a vacation’ from his sex drive, during which time, counselling therapy can be effective.
The drug is a long-acting, injectable form of a synthetic progestin. As an anti-androgen, it inhibits the release of androgen, the so-called male hormone, from the testicles.
That will mean that the body will have more progestin to take over androgen, which is a sexual activator. Progestin in the male is sexually inert. It therefore induces a period of sexual calmness in which the sex drive is at rest.
In the past, such sex offenders were castrated. But today, surgical castration is irreversible. Depo-Provera treatment is better because the patient can be weaned off gradually, lowering the hormone dosage.
It is possible for the patient to discover how completely he has become relieved of the tendency to engage in the offending behaviour, both in actuality and in imagination.
It is believed that in many cases, there is long-lasting remission, so that the patient is no longer compelled to commit sex offences, but is enabled to have a sex life with a socially suitable consenting partner instead.