This is relevant:
Years ago, N. read a couple of articles about rapists.
In one, a district attorney, a woman, (he thinks it was Linda Fierstein of NY) stated that one reason it was so hard to catch rapists was that their crime frequently took such a short period of time. This was because their sexual arousal began when they spotted their victim, and as they stalked and closed in on their victim, increased; so that by time they had pounced on the victim, they were so sexually excited that the rape itself, the period when the rapist was in most danger of detection by witnesses, was often over in mere seconds or minutes.
The second article told about an effort to treat habitual rapists by operant conditioning. Their penises were fitted with a monitoring device. They would then be shown films or literature depicting violent sex crimes, rapes. When they looked at these violent scenes, they became sexually aroused. As soon as the monitor detected an erection, the incarcerated rapists received an electric shock.
The purpose of the electric shock was to de-eroticize violence. So at that time, it hadn't yet been decided that criminal violence was one of the few human behaviors that was incapable of being eroticized. The absurd decision that that was to be declared the case awaited the time of political correctness. |
