It's good to hear a man pipe up with some corroboration and relfection here. Thanks! I agree, blanket monitoring--or even testing---of the general populace is not likely to fly. It's just something I would love to do personally--maybe for my doctorate, who knows?
I ask the "is he excusable" question because universities have been sweeping rape cases under the rug for a long time. It seems to be expected for these guys to have a hard time with sexual boundaries, and to laugh it off as an inevitable cost of having a sports team. My alma mater (Univ of TN, Knoxville) has had great football teams with a lot of secrets. Many star players on the most lucrative sports teams are dangerous men. Strong and agressive high-T players draw in $$$, and so they get protection from the law by people with more greed than ethics.
To T test guys who have committed violent & sexual crimes seems like a pretty obvious way of finding out what's going on. Hormones have a whole lot to do with who we are. And there's room for plenty more research in this area. I would love to see all violent felons, male and female, undergo extensive health screening. I believe that much vicious, agressive and antisocial behavior occurs when a person is chemically out of his/her head, and not necessarily because they've ingested a drug.
It is my observation that very high testosterone levels are as plain to see in the face of the subject as fetal alchohol syndrome and down syndrome. And I feel sorry for those big-chinned guys. And steer clear of them. They are the ones for whom my short skirt is come-on enough to cause trouble.
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high T questions
Date: 2006-04-24 12:29 am (UTC)I ask the "is he excusable" question because universities have been sweeping rape cases under the rug for a long time. It seems to be expected for these guys to have a hard time with sexual boundaries, and to laugh it off as an inevitable cost of having a sports team. My alma mater (Univ of TN, Knoxville) has had great football teams with a lot of secrets. Many star players on the most lucrative sports teams are dangerous men. Strong and agressive high-T players draw in $$$, and so they get protection from the law by people with more greed than ethics.
To T test guys who have committed violent & sexual crimes seems like a pretty obvious way of finding out what's going on. Hormones have a whole lot to do with who we are. And there's room for plenty more research in this area. I would love to see all violent felons, male and female, undergo extensive health screening. I believe that much vicious, agressive and antisocial behavior occurs when a person is chemically out of his/her head, and not necessarily because they've ingested a drug.
It is my observation that very high testosterone levels are as plain to see in the face of the subject as fetal alchohol syndrome and down syndrome. And I feel sorry for those big-chinned guys. And steer clear of them. They are the ones for whom my short skirt is come-on enough to cause trouble.
I've got to go get a mug shot of OJ Simpson.