Emasculation bill
Sir, — I read with incredulity the horrifying report of May 3 about the close defeat of a bill in the House of
Representatives of the State of Oklahoma which would have authorised the asexualisation of guilty sexual offenders (asexualisation being defined as castration and emasculation, i.e. lopping off). It is just as well that this legislation was ousted as this abominable Islamistic justice is medieval thinking. It has also occurred to me that this legislation would have been a very sexist law as there is absolutely no provision made for female sexual offenders. — Yours, etc., R. CLARKE. May 3, 1979.
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