As the Home Office announces plans to offer drug treatments to child sex offenders to try to stop them re-offending, this shocking and honest film examines the legal castration of child sex offenders in the USA, in a bid to rehabilitate them.

The film talks to five men who believe castration, whether chemical or surgical, is the only solution to their deviant behaviour. The Castration Cure raises difficult and controversial issues including: Can you cure a paedophile? And if so, is castration the answer?

Thursday 5 July 2007, Channel 4