雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:面朝大海(166)

One attraction of this technique was that it was so much more effective than physical castration.

這個療法值得注意的地方在於，它比物理閹割的效果好得多。

Surgery of this kind had held a traditional part in the American Way, especially since the eugenic clean-up of the late nineteenth century.

物理閹割是一種傳統的美國方式，尤其是在19世紀末，優生學流行的時候。

In 1950 there were eleven states which allowed for compulsory castration, with fifty thousand cases on record.

在1950年，有11個州允許強制閹割，有50, 000個案例記錄在冊。

But there was also scientific evidence that castration did not successfully inhibit sexual activity, and in this respect the chemical approach was more promising.

但是科學證據卻表明，物理閹割並不能成功地抑制性行爲。從這個角度來說，化學方法看起來更有前途。

This was the lesson drawn by the first British paper on the subject, which appeared in the pages of the Lancet just a few days after Jefferson invoked the supremely human 'charm of sex' in his Lister Oration.

這一前途體現在該領域的第一篇英國論文中，它於幾天後發表在醫學期刊《柳葉刀》上，

It appeared under the authoritative name of F.L. Golla, director of the progressive Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol, where Grey Walter had built his cybernetic tortoises.

作者是F·L·戈拉，他是布里斯托的博登神經研究院的主任。當年正是在布里斯托，沃爾特製造了他的機器烏龜注。

Neither compulsory nor voluntary castration was allowed in Britain. On the other hand, as he wrote, "The Criminal Justice Act, 1948, had emphasised the duty of the community to provide treatment for the habitual sexual offender."

戈拉在文中寫道：“1948年的《刑事審判法》強調了，社會有責任爲性犯罪者提供治療。”但是在英國，無論是強制還是自願的物理閹割都是不允許的，

Hormone dosage resolved this contradiction, being both legal, and more effective.

因此，激素療法則合法而有效地解決了這個矛盾。

By 1949 Golla had experimented on thirteen men, and found that with sufficiently large doses "libido could be abolished within a month."

1949年，戈拉在13名男性身上進行了臨牀實驗，其結果表明，如果激素劑量足夠大，可以有效抑制性慾將近一個月。

He concluded: In view of the non-mutilating nature of this treatment and the ease with which it can be administered to a consenting patient we believe that it should be adopted whenever possible in male cases of abnormal and uncontrollable sexual urge.

他總結道：鑑於這種療法能使病人得到內心的鎮定，但卻不會殘害其身體，因此在任何男性案件中，如果病人的性慾異常或無法控制，我們就應當儘可能地使用這種療法。