The Polanski imbroglio has certainly been a Godsend for advocates of virtue engineering.
One Shirin Sadeghi -- a bit of a hottie herself, if her thumbnail pic is to be believed -- argues on HuffPo that Polanski is a poster-boy for chemical castration -- the thing they tried on Alan Turing, IIRC. Apparently Poland now has some provision for this technological approach to the problem:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shirin-sadeghi/poland-and-polanski-chemi_b_301212.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/ballburners
Excerpt:
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perpetrators of this crime can no longer be trusted to make the right decision when it comes to their sexual urges.
There is one certain way to prevent recurrences of this type of assault and that is to remove the urge entirely.
Chemical castration disables the urge by suppressing the hormones that drive sexual urges....
A more cost-effective and certain prevention is old-fashioned castration: the irreversible excision of an offender's testes or ovaries....
Nobody is perfect, no doubt about it, but some imperfections seem more forgivable than others. What the Polish government is saying about the kind of behavior that allegedly took place between Polanski and a 13 year old girl is that, at the end of the day, there simply is no excuse for it, and not only that, but that it is a problem that must be prevented from recurring....
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One has the strong sense that La Sadeghi is enjoying this little reverie quite a lot.