Male or female?
Sir.- The categorical assertion by A. M. Coates (January 27). that “The Press" (January 19) “reports the latest research into high androgen levels in the brains of violent males," . is without foundation. He could not have read the report. High androgen levels do not cause violence. While purporting to deplore violence. Mr Coates advocates violence (the forcible injection of a testicle-destroy-ing substance) against “criminals” after the passage of "necessary legislation." Such “treatment" has often been imposed with varying degrees of coercion, as have E.C.T. (electro-convulsive therapy), surgical castration, fluoridation. etc., "High androgen levels" undoubtedly enabled the building of the North Island Main Trunk Railway, for example. There was much sex with it. Individual natural attributes should evoke respect in an observer — not a puritanical urge to destroy them. No lasting reduction of violence can be achieved without removing the legal and social barriers that separate man from man. and woman from woman.-Yours, etc., PAUL MALING. February 7, 1982.
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