This discovery of chemical castration won Huggins the 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

South Korea's justice system has decided to enforce the chemical castration of repeat child rapists, an official announced on May 23, 2012.

With the average life expectancy after castration, there are approximately a half million chemically or surgically castrated prostate cancer patients at any time in the U.S. alone.

A sex offender and pedophile who raped children under the age of 10, known by the surname Park, would be the nation's first case to receive the castration punishment.

From the male point of view, resorting to outside police or judicial intervention would signify an inability to fight one s own battles an admission of defeat and a symbolic castration.