Guardian
Added: Feb 22, 2012
German government insists treatment enables 'suffering tied to abnornmal sex drive … to be cured or at least alleviated'
Surgical castration of sex offenders, still practised by doctors in Germany, has been condemned as "degrading" in a human rights report.
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) acknowledges that it is rarely used but questions its effectiveness and whether each patient's consent is freely obtained. The Czech Republic, where the operation is used slightly more frequently, is the only other EU state to continue with the procedure.