All the men undergoing the treatment are volunteers who served prison terms for sex crimes. The government hopes that medical treatment will help stem a sharp increase in the number of sex crimes, particularly child rape. The number of people sent to prison in France for sexual offenses has multiplied dramatically over the past 20 years. In 2004, there were 8,200 sex offenders in prison -- or 22 percent of the jail population -- compared to 1,100 or five percent in 1980. Almost a quarter of male detainees in French jails are sex offenders, and nearly three quarters of them have raped children.French Justice Minister Dominic Perben recently told French radio that experimenting with chemical treatment to curb sex crime had never been tried in France before, but if it worked, it could be something sex offenders are forced to undergo in the future, like psychological treatment.According to the minister, injections of the prostate cancer drug leuproreline and the breast cancer tablet cyproterone dampen the sex drive and inhibit erections. But the effect wears off when the treatment stops -- so this is not "chemical castration" but rather, to use the minister's phrase, "a chemical straightjacket."

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