Medicine gone crazy!

             A Canadian forensic psychiatrist says he regularly treats sex offenders for impotence with Viagra like drugs and advocates the practice as a way to actually keep them out of trouble.
             Dr. Paul Fedoroff’s comments come as a new American study raises legal and ethical questions about helping convicted sex criminals overcome erectile dysfunction (ED).
              Authors of the paper worry that doing so might help some perpetrators re-offend, while American law bars government health-insurance from covering the treatment’s cost.
But in a response to their article, Fedoroff says prescribing Viagra-type drugs or delivering other ED treatment can be part of a strategy to shift offenders away from criminal behaviour — such as assaulting children — and toward more normal sex.
            I have to wonder if Dr. Fedoroff would like his daughter to be exposed to such an offender fortified with Viagra as part of his treatment to steer him in  the direction  of 'normal sex'.   Come off it, Doc.  Further, our contention that pedophiles often target children only because they’re afraid they will not be able to perform if they try to have sex with an adult partner is nothing short of absurd.  He further asks, “Which sounds like the more dangerous person a person who is engaged in fulfilling, healthy sexual relations with a consenting partner, or someone who has no legal sexual outlets?”  He does not seem to grasp, that if the person  was capable of having the sort of relationship that the learned doctor describes it is unlikely that he would be in jail serving a sentence for pedophilia in the first place.                                                                   
            The issue was raised recently, though, in a study by three Boston-based urologists, who noted in the Journal of Sexual Medicine that coverage for anti-impotence drugs by the United States’ Medicaid program was banned in 2005 in the wake of public “outrage” that tax dollars were used that way..                               
            The doctors say they are not in favour of denying care to all sex offenders, but suggest it is possible in some cases that “treating their sexual dysfunction may increase the risk of sexual recidivism.”
          Still, they say the science is unclear, and complain that urologists lack the training to know whether treating the offender’s impotence is appropriate or not.
“Virtually everyone has some improvement,” the psychiatrist said. “Most find a girlfriend, boyfriend or appropriate partner.”
             Most pedophiles engage in inappropriate touching, kissing or genital contact, and an erection is irrelevant.  Castration would probably be a more appropriate treatment than viagra.
             Just another 'politically correct' misconception by the LWLs, until one of their kids are molested.
             Go figure!!