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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (35500)	4/20/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"Thought patterns" is your phrase, not mine. I would never say such a thing. Their thought patterns are very different indeed. One is a violent criminal. One is a lover. I was saying that the brain scan that shows erotic excitement (which is not a thought pattern) and the blood tests that shows erotic excitement and the genital monitors that show erotic excitement would, I suspect, show "a few differences, but more similarities" between the scans and tests and monitors of rapists who get erections, perpetrate their rape, and come, and men who are getting erections, perpetrating their normal intercourse, and coming. (I didn't want to walk off the subject too much, so didn't specify what I thought the differences would be. I'll say that my intuition tells me that the differences would be in the brain parts that are glowing when a person is hostile vs the ones that are glowing when a person is friendly, and not in the parts that are glowing for erotic excitement.) (I think someone here thought it possible that the tests on rapists' brains during rape would look more like the tests on the brains of bank robbers during their robbery than like the brains of men having normal sex. I think it was bank robbers. I disagree with that because bank robbers aren't getting sexually excited and coming. Presumably. If they are, I retract.)