Some protesters called for harsher punishments for convicted rapists, such as chemical castration and the death penalty.

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For most of 60 years men with advanced cases have had a dearth of treatments other than crude hormone therapy adopted in the 1940s, which essentially was a form of chemical castration.

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Many of the thousands of protesters who poured into the streets of New Delhi following the Dec. 16 attack clamored for stricter punishments for those convicted of rape including the death penalty and chemical castration.

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Lupron, the drug they give to children, is a testosterone-suppressing drug that is the chemical equivalent of castration.

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Scandinavian countries and Germany offer castration, of the chemical kind, to their child sex offenders.

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