The Italian government is considering chemical castration as a legal punishment for rapists.
The country’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini put forward the idea of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders, but this was met with opposition from MP’s belonging to the government’s senior coalition partner the Five Star Movement.
Salvini had tweeted that it was a fitting punishment for three men who raped an American tourist in Sicily.
The government is also considering making so-called “revenge porn” a criminal offence as well.
A Five Star MP , Giulia Sarti, was a recent victim of revenge porn and was supported by the mother of Tiziana Cantone, 31, who took her own life after sex videos of her went viral on the internet in 2017.
However, regulation has stalled in the parliament.
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