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Article: Europe debates castration by chemicals for sex crimes

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October 11, 1996
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ALBERTSLUND, Denmark -- He was convicted four times for rape and attempted rape of school-age girls before he turned 23. Even so, Arne Kjeldsen today believes he will not try to rape again.

It is not the years of therapy that give him this conviction, nor the jail sentence he is now serving in a prison for sex offenders in this Copenhagen suburb. Instead, it comes from the fact that the sexual demons that plagued him are quiet, the result of a treatment he receives here -- chemical castration.

"Now, I don't feel preoccupied with strange sexual thoughts," the 26-year-old said about the drugs he takes that temper his sex drive and make him impotent. "Instead, I feel a physical tranquility. ...

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