Pedophiles Should Be Electronically Tagged

I'd like to start this debate by talking about pedophilia. Pedophilia is a paraphilia that involves an abnormal interest in children- and a paraphilia is a disorder that is characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges and/or sexually arousing fantasies that generally involve nonhuman objects, the suffering of ones self or ones partner, animals, children, or any other non-consenting person. Pedophilia is a psychosexual disorder in which the fantasy or actual act of engaging in sexual activity with a prepubescent child is the preferred or exclusive way of achieving sexual gratification. Some pedophiles are attracted to both boys and girls, some one or the other. Some are attracted only to children, while others are attracted to adults as well as to children. Pedophilia is defined by mental health professionals as a mental disorder, but the American legal system defines acting on a pedophilic urge as a criminal act. To be a pedophile, by the psychological definition, you must be at least sixteen years of age and be sexually attracted to prepubescent children- defined by any child under the age of thirteen. By this definition, to be a pedophile you need not commit any physical or illegal act- you can be defined as such by only having fantasies! I do not think that the American legal systems definition of pedophile is sufficient to commit the act of installing tracking devices into their bodies. Especially since their definition of a ‘pedophile' isn't even correct! Do they plan on tracking every person with sexual fantasies, even those who have never acted on them? Tracking pedophiles is an abuse of their civil liberties. The whole idea of people being sent to prison is that once the get out, they are considered to have paid their debt to society! We have no right to continue to persecute them by keeping them under constant surveillance. It is wrong and goes against everything we, as Americans, stand for. Instead of punishing pedophiles further, we should spend the extreme amounts of funds- our tax dollars- that it will take to run the technology necessary for tracking thousands of people on therapy so that these acts don't continue to happen! Increasingly, pedophiles are being prosecuted under criminal statutes and being sentenced to prison terms. Imprisonment removes them from society for a period of time but does not usually remove their pedophilic tendencies. In 2002, many states began to publish the names of persons being released from prison after serving time for pedophilia. This itself brought up many legal problems, so don't you think that tracking human beings would bring up even more controversy than simply releasing their names? Besides, tracking devices would do no good! Many pedophilic acts are committed within the home, and the majority of pedophiles are never convicted. Pedophiles don't abduct children from schools. Abductions are very rare in any case, but where they do happen they are much more likely to be on the street or in the countryside, where these exclusion zones would not apply, so that idea does nothing to protect children. Other potential risks, such as pedophiles contacting children through the internet and arranging meetings with them, are not affected by this proposal. So not only is this proposal an invasion of their rights as American citizens, but it is utterly pointless.