Increased Frontotemporal Activation During Pain Observation in Sexual Sadism
Pain is described as being physical or mental anguish that is a result of ailment or abuse. In some cases, carnal pleasure is obtained from the infliction of pain, discomfort, and torment of others. In other words, sensual gratification derived from physical suffering is known as Sadism. The sexual acts by sadists are done with malice making this form of perversion both anomalous and objectionable. Sexual sadism is a mental disorder with aggressive, pitiless and degrading characteristics that provokes an individual to behave in a dangerous manner towards others for sexual pleasure (Harenski et al., 2012). Sadism has been characterized by
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the neural activity found in sadists and nonsadists while they observed pain in a picture presentation (Harenski et al., 2012). The pervasiveness of sadistic activities is undisclosed because some people do not want to proclaim their sexual preferences. For this study, a group consisting of all males from Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center, Mauston, Wisconsin, volunteered to be analyzed and tested. These men were sexual offenders who had committed 2 or more violent sexual crimes. The process would begin by dividing the 15 men into two groups, sadists and nonsadists. The indication of which group these men go into was determined by their scores on the Severe Sadism Scale which has demonstrated a great deal of accuracy. One of the first tests conducted was penile plethysmography (PPG), it is used to gauge blood flow to the phallus when a male becomes sexually aroused. PPG was administered along with a functional magnetic resonance (fMR) that would display images of pain
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Holmes and Holmes developed this typology based on various characteristics of the crime scenes and the victims themselves of 110 interviews of selected offenders and serial murders (Canter & Wentink, 2004). David Canter and Natalia Wentink conducted an empirical test of this typology and developed several criticisms to their work. Their empirical test concluded that the features described for each category tend to co-occur within each other. For example, the characteristics of a lust killer include a controlled crime scene, evidence of torture, the body being moved, a specific type of victim, no weapon left at the crime scene, and rape; all of these features are also included for the thrill killer. This makes it difficult to categorize these
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Ted Bundy’s style of killing describes sexual sadism. Sexual sadism is the intense sexually arousal by the thought or act of inflicting suffering on others by dominating, restraining, blindfolding, cutting, strangling, mutilating, or even killing the victim (Comer, 2011). This condition would fall under Axis I because it causes significant impairment.
...pe, both sex and aggression become fused together into a single experience called sadism. There is a transformation of anger and power so that aggression becomes erotic. This offender finds the intentional mistreatment of his victim extremely gratifying and takes pleasure in her torment and suffering (Hazelwood 1).
There have been a large number of studies that compared adults that had been sexually abused as well as adults that had not and what their differences were. What about the effects that child abuse has on Adults? This study purpose is to try and pinpoint the effects that psychosexual functioning in adults has on sexually abused children. During this study it got a closer look at how events of childhood sexual abuse effected psychosexual functioning, emotional, behavioral and evaluative after childhood. This article looks at the effect that childhood sexual abuse can have on an adult. It compares the different effects if the child tells someone when the attack happens or if they don’t what the long term effects could be. The questionnaire was given to find out which effect child abuse had on 165 different adults: fear of sex and guilt during sex, issues with physical touch, sexual arousal, and sexual satisfaction. First the characteristics of the adults have to be determined. They were looking and determine characteristics like age...
Many people encounter tragedies, trauma, abuse, and psychological damage in their life, but those who have said problems frequently, most likely evolve into serial killers later on in life. Statistics show that forty percent of people who withstand abuse in childhood develop into excessively abusive, violent, and sadistic criminals because they are burdened by problems for the rest of their existence (Nurturing). Generally, serial killers are violent and want to torture their victims. Those who were abused in their childhood rarely had any control over anything; as a result, in the future they want to dominate and inflict the same pain to their victim that they encountered in their youth; the dominance serial killers hunger for is usually presented through sexual abuse (Nurturing). In childhood, if one has abusive, manipulative, or irresponsible parents that neglect him or her at home, a part of his or her brain, which contro...
III: Effects of force and violence” discusses the psychological pain women experience after the had been assaulted and which ones gets affected more. In the text it says “The hypothesis applied to rape victims argues that in human evolutionary history raped females had increased fitness as a result of mental pain, because the pain forced them to focus their attention on the fitness-reducing circumstances surrounding rape. Some of the hypothesis' predictions about the psychological pain of rape victims are examined using a data set of 790 rape victims who were interviewed about their psychological traumatization within five days after the assault. Earlier analyses of these data have indicated that, as predicted, both a victim's age and marital status are proximate causes of the magnitude of psychological pain following rape: Reproductive-aged women appear to have been more severely traumatized by rape than older women or girls and married women more than unmarried women.“ This text shows which female experience more psychological pain then the
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According to a statement addressing the sexual victimization of college women The Crime and Victimization in America states that, “ One out of four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.” This disturbing fact has not minimized throughout the years, instead it is continuing to worsen throughout college campuses. Sexual assault is not an act to be taken lightly. Society must stop pinpointing the individuals who commit these crimes one by one, but rather look at the problem as a whole and begin to understand the main cause of sexual assault and possible methods to reduce these acts of sexual coercion.
Written in 1977, "Rape Fantasies" appears to be a recap of a conversation among several women during their lunch hour, a few of them playing bridge, one--Chrissy the receptionist--reading aloud from a tabloid. When Chrissy asks the question, "How about it, girls, do you have rape fantasies?" the story unfolds with each woman's response, all retold from the perspective of Estelle, who's doing her best to deflect the entire conversation by concentrating on her bidding.
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Comer discusses that some people who suffer from sexual sadism disorder choose to act on their urges with nonconsenting victims. However, Christian makes sure that a well drawn out contract is signed before actions are taken with the submissives. His disorder goes beyond the sexual relations that involve inflicting pain on women. Christian’s contracts make it known to the women that they are to be loyal to only him and they follow his every order. He then finds enjoyment and arousal from knowing that he has total control over these women’s lives in and out of the bedroom.