Indeed, McQuay said, he would not want a family with children living next to him even after castration. Repeat child sexual offenders , particularly violent ones, belong in jail, period. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will not allow castration of inmates because of liability problems, said Eliza May, executive director of the Texas Sex Offenders Treatment Council, a state agency that certifies psychotherapists to work with sex offenders. For All, said she knows of two doctors in Houston who will do castrations anonymously. Two Texas men who were not inmates got the operation to help them control their urges to molest.
Prior offenders say it has worked.
Eways doesn't believe that testosterone levels drive men to rape either. People don't rape because they are oversexed. They rape because they want to humiliate and degrade the victim. No state allows the surgical castration of inmates, but there have been efforts in Florida and Texas that would have permitted chemical or surgical castration. During the last session of the Texas Legislature, a bill was introduced that would have allowed castrations of inmates who wanted the operation.