Counseling class last night
Counseling class was interesting last night. Our professor revealed that she could never work with sexual predators - they just make her too angry. This goes triple for child sex offenders. The whole class nodded their agreement - except me.
In my baby psychologist musings, I don't see pedophilia as all that much different to work with than any other undesired paraphilia. People with pedophilia inspire in me a profound sense of pity more than rage - I feel awful for them. I know what it is like to have a sexual desire I didn't choose to have and I can't imagine never being able to have sex because I was born wired incorrectly.
I say this as someone who supports the death penalty for repeat child sexual offenders by the way. I feel badly for the dogs so terrified that they have bitten more than once and cannot be managed, so must be put down. But I still support putting them down, because the chances of fixing their behavior is slim and even if it is possible, they can never be trusted.
The same goes for child predators. I feel awful for how they are wired and truely pity them. That said, I would have no problem being the one to put the needle in their vein (assuming the conviction was good and all the other caveats that go with this sort of thing.) I'm comfortable with the land that is "this condition is not your fault, but since you have shown you cannot control it you must be permanently removed from society."
Forensics ought to be interesting Thursday - we are starting psycopathy and sexual sadism. Since some of my friends are sexual sadists, I'm hoping the professor does not paint with too wide a brush as he links sexual sadism and serial murder. We'll see.
In my baby psychologist musings, I don't see pedophilia as all that much different to work with than any other undesired paraphilia. People with pedophilia inspire in me a profound sense of pity more than rage - I feel awful for them. I know what it is like to have a sexual desire I didn't choose to have and I can't imagine never being able to have sex because I was born wired incorrectly.
I say this as someone who supports the death penalty for repeat child sexual offenders by the way. I feel badly for the dogs so terrified that they have bitten more than once and cannot be managed, so must be put down. But I still support putting them down, because the chances of fixing their behavior is slim and even if it is possible, they can never be trusted.
The same goes for child predators. I feel awful for how they are wired and truely pity them. That said, I would have no problem being the one to put the needle in their vein (assuming the conviction was good and all the other caveats that go with this sort of thing.) I'm comfortable with the land that is "this condition is not your fault, but since you have shown you cannot control it you must be permanently removed from society."
Forensics ought to be interesting Thursday - we are starting psycopathy and sexual sadism. Since some of my friends are sexual sadists, I'm hoping the professor does not paint with too wide a brush as he links sexual sadism and serial murder. We'll see.