Monday, October 30, 2006

Counseling for Rapists

It is said that 1 in every 3 women in USA is sexually assaulted. One woman in every 1 minute is getting raped in India. The figures could be little off in other countries. I get disturbed when I hear about death penalty awarded to rapists and murderers. Incidently, after 2004 when Dhananjay Chatterjee was convicted of raping 14 years and killing Hetal Parekh, there were protests against capital punishment. Recently I read about death penalty awarded to Santosh Singh who was convicted of raping and murdering Pridarshini Matto (10 years back when she was 23 and was studying law). My post is not about debating on whether death penalty is right or wrong. Rather I want to understand the psychology of rapists and situations they go through in life. I will tell a guy is lying if he has never in life wowed at a beautiful woman or wanted to get intimate with her. Almost every man has this fantasy to ravish someone he desire(d). Talking about rapists, I think they have less control on their thoughts and emotions. There are rapists of different kinds -- some rape minor girls and then murden them; some are spoilt brat (having influential parents) who think they can get away by assaulting any girl; some are gang rapists (Phulon Devi was gang raped by many); some are so violent to plan with cold heart to rape and murder a girl (taking revenge and pacify ego). Assuming that men have animal instint and given that some men are genetically pervert as far controlling oneself is concerned, rapes will continued t be committed for long time to come. I don't understand why a rapist murders his victim. He can come wearing mask and make sure not to leave any evidence. Why take so much risk ? He can simply go and give her that indecent proposal and offer say Rs 20,000 in return. Who knows it might work since people always need money.

I agree grieving family of rape victim would not like to forgive the rapists, but think how a rapist feels when he hears his death sentence. Dhananjay Chatterjee spent more than decade (may be more 20 years) in prison and was hanged later. Aperson who spends more than 20 years in prison, what can remain left in him ? I understand, on the heat of the moment he might have done a gruesome crime, but hasn't he already suffered for 20 years in prison (recall the movie, The Shwashanka's Redemption). He might have contemplated and repented every day of his life in prison.

Santosh Singh is a lawyer by himself. I wonder how he spent those 10 years after raping and murdering his junior student. How he managed to marry someone later and become a father of daughter ? How could he have spent every day thinking "Oh God, why did I do that ?" How does it feel to think, "After a few months, I will not live on this planet. Why am I studying these law books ? What should I do in the remaining days of my life ? What is going through my parents heart and minds ? I am 35 years old guy, was it really worth to rape her ? My friends who I went to school with must be enjoying life in freedom outside, making their parents proud, and what have I done in life, Oh My God ? Is there any remote possibility that I may survive and see my own daughter grow ? Can I get clemency ? Why didn't I hire Jethmalani as my lawyer ? Oh God, can you not forgive me ?"

I don't know if there are other ways to prevent girls from being raped other than making strict laws. I think it is also important on the part of parents to imbibe in their kids, respect towards girls and their vulnerability. Rape is not only a physical crime, it is a rape on the mind and psychology of the victim. Someone rightly said "ladkiwalon ke lafde mein kabhi mat pado" or "Smart are those who find something more interesting than girls and sex". I remember, seniors in engg college ragged us asking -- assume your mom, wife and sister are about to be raped, and you can save only one. Who will you save ? I was surprised to know from many girls that a guy should try to save his sister. Personally I feel, death penalty should be replaced by 200 years of life imprisonment -- let the rapists get raped by homosexual gays in a prison for 200 years.

11 comments:

Kuhu said...

I agree with you. But personally I feel that punishment for raping should be depriving the rapists of being a man again.....making them enunuchs....coz living with pain is more painful than death.

I don't find any fun in forced intercourse when triple times pleasure can be derived from consensual sex. Unless otherwise someone wants to display their manlyness in an unmanly way. Some weak men, disgraced by the society, give vent to their frustration by enjoying the screams of a helpless girl or a more powerful woman underneath them...who cannot overcome them in physical strength. Such men are parasites of the society and should be appropriately rendered harmless.

I also consider sexual torture of a girl, be it mind or body, a form of rape. And such forms makes a girl so helpless that she can't even protest.....coz she has no legal proof of the letchings of a man. But it as well leaves her sad and dejected. All may not agree with me as has lakshmikanth in the following blog :http://indsight.org/blog/archives/2005/07/08/on-being-a-female-body/ , but nevertheless I feel it is a crime and should be duly punished.

chaitra said...
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chaitra said...

yes, living in pain is far more painful than dying.

Anonymous said...

with capital punishment we are again committing the same crime of acting God. Well.. !!! the power of having power

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Kerry Cook said...

I strongly advocate surgical castration as a medical treatment for suspected/convicted sex offenders.

I am an expert that it works. Let me explain:

My name is Kerry Cook and I am the author of CHASING JUSTICE. My book chronicles two decades on Texas Death Row convicted of a crime I didn't commit and an arduous struggle to prove innocence and escape the executioner, branded a convicted homosexual sex offender.

I was 20 years old when I arrived to Death Row in the summer of 1978 convicted of the rape and murder of a young girl in Tyler, Texas. Before death row I was a shy, rather nancyish adolescent who had had a few minor scrapes with the law as a run-away juvenile delinquent beginning at 15 years old. I was in no way prepared for the phallecentric world prison.

My introduction to prison branded a sexual offender - - the worst thing you can be accused of - - was to immediately trade in my male boxer underwear for razors and a pair of panties. I was brutally raped and turned out. "Good Pussy" was tattooed on my backside and I lived the role of a prison punk forced to turn-prostitute for protection. During the next 20 years, I witnessed prison murder, suicide attempts, an execution date, ping-pong appeals, the loss of my entire family, and the gradual unstoppable erosion of my mental state and my grasp on reality.

No therapy, no friends and no support, I battled the legal system, the inmates, and at times, myself, in an grueling war to live. Over time the role of "Cindy"the emasculated prison punk, along with the continual daily abuses, triggered a Pavlovian response to aggression, be it physical in penetration or verbal abuse. The guilt and shame associated with this sexual stimulation went deeper than anything I can explain here. In a desperate effort to rid myself of it, I attempted to remove my penis and testicles.

For over two years I was free (safe) of even a hint of sexual thoughts, urges or inclinations.

It is because of this personal experience I know with certainty surgical castration is a viable method of treating the destructive disease of sexual addiction, as well as serving as both a deterrence and dramatically reducing recidivism.