Reply #73: If its an uncoerced choice [View All]

[Ms. Toad]

by an offender who admits he has committed the offenses with which he is charged (or similar ones) and is committed to rehabilitating himself I tend agree that it is part of therapeutic treatment.

If it is imposed as a sentence, or offered as an "option" to avoid - say - life imprisonment without parole, I see it as mutilation, the same as I would chopping off the hand of a thief, or cutting out the tongue of a perjurer.