Discuss some of the ways that are used to treat sex offenders currently.
What will be an ideal response?
A number of treatments for child sexual abusers are in use: surgical castration, antiandrogen drugs, hormones, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), behavior therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy. The idea behind surgical castration is that removal of a man's testes sharply reduces his level of testosterone, with the hope that his sexual and aggressive behavior will also be reduced sharply. Cryproterone acetate (CPA) is an antiandrogen drug-that is, it reduces the action of testosterone in the body and is therefore a kind of chemical castration-that has been used in the treatment of child sexual abusers. One class of antidepressants (the SSRIs, which include Prozac and Zoloft) has also been tried. Its use is based on the assumption that sex offending can be a particular kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Behavioral treatment generally aims to teach pedophiles to control their sexual arousal to children. One method involves aversive classical conditioning, in which an unpleasant stimulus (e.g., the smell of ammonia) is repeatedly paired with sexual pictures of children. Cognitive-behavioral treatment targets not only behaviors, but also attitudes and beliefs.
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