Taking a Look at Sexual Sadism

In “Lines of Color, Sex, and Service: Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic,” by Sharon Block she examines the startling similarities between Harriet Jacobs, an African-American slave in 1825 and Rachel Davis, an indentured servant during the 1790s. At first glance, it would seem that both girls would have no similarities, however, by uncovering their stories you can find many parallels between Harriet and Rachel. Both girls are faced with sexual pressure and sexual coercion from their masters, the power struggle between them, their mistresses attempt at inferring in their relationship, their eventual removal from their house, and their attempts at sharing the experience with family members and close friends. Block writes, “This contrast between

In “Riding the Bull at Gilleys,” Scully and Marolla depict the psychopathological and the socio-cultural models of rape. The psychopathological model is a representation of what psychotherapist have used for years to explain the reasoning behind rape. With this model, rape is the result of an eccentric mental dysfunction, which symptoms include involuntary and uncontrollable sexual impulses. These sexual impulses may be temporary, repetitive, long lasting or brief. This model also implies that male sexual aggression is abnormal, therefore; psychologists do not seek any other rational explanation. Mainly, the psychopathological model ignores any correlational factors linking male sexual aggression to learned social behavior.

Sexual abuse is a heinous act that causes extreme suffering for a victim while providing pleasure for a perpetrator. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, approximately 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are abused sexually before the age of 18 (n.d.). The question of why an individual would commit such a heinous act has various answers, almost all of which depend on the background of the individual. A common speculation is that abusers themselves were once abused by someone else. This idea branches off of the Positivist Theory of crime. The theory basically states that prior influences or experiences in life will ultimately decide how people will act in the future (C. Bartol & A. Bartol, 2017). Their history of abuse influenced them to become abusers. While this may be one viable explanation to this behavior, there are many other answers that are just as feasible in explaining this behavior. This includes the topic of serious mental illnesses and other behavioral disorders. Regardless of background influences, the true intent of the abusive individuals may be almost impossible to draw out, especially since most guilty individuals want to escape from the consequences associated with the crime that they commit (Inbau, Reid, Buckley, & Jayne, 2013). Unless a perpetrator admits to committing the crime, piecing the story together and understanding the influences that played a role in the actions committed by them is more feasible in terms of learning the truth. Whatever the

This essay aims to answer the question “can psychology satisfactorily explain sexual violence?” However, as this is such a broad area of research, it will be focussing on domestic sexual violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV) and child sexual abuse within the family.

Fromm describes Hitler's life and says, "there are hundreds of Hitlers among us who would come forth if their historical hour arrived." In other cases, there is an underlying feeling of powerlessness that produces a need to be in complete control over a helpless person. Sadists and rapists are like this. Joseph Stalin, dictator of Russia, was a famous example; he enjoyed torturing political prisoners; he killed millions of his own people (when they opposed his policies); he had wives of his own loyal aides sent to prison (the aides didn't protest); he enjoyed being deceptive and totally unpredictable. In milder forms, chauvinists may also be hostile, e.g. the male who puts down his wife and demands she attend to his every need; the angry, threatening, autocratic boss or teacher who enjoys seeing the worker or student break into a cold sweat.

Not only does progress affects an individual and the environment it also affects the animals that inhabit the world. In the name of progress, many people made their wants first priority over the need for others as well as animals. Many of theses wants have led many animals to extinction at a high rate. And due to the demanding market many corporations especially in agriculture uses modified corn that depletes that soil of all its nutrition. Therefore, the soil is not able to bare any grass or foods supply for animals to eat (furthering reducing their food supply). Other corporations, such as slaughterhouses treat animals like a wealth make by caging them, drugging them and injecting them with hormones in small places in turn maximizing profit insteading of treating them as intelligent animals that are able to feel pain. As Jonathan Safran Foer writes in “Our New Sadism,” “Undercover investigators showed some workers administering daily beatings, bludgeoning pregnant sows with a wrench and ramming an iron pole a foot deep into mother pigs’ rectums and vaginas.” (Foer 181). Foer explains how these workers does not care about the animals and abuse them without showing them any mercy. Furthermore, other corporations puts toxins

The major difference is less overt, typically with no obvious visible signs of restraint. Rather, psychological abuse, coercion and mental manipulation play a powerful role in forcing modern day slaves to work in a variety of industries [3, 4]. Psychological abuse and coercion are easier to conceal than more physical forms of restraint and control and so modern slavery represents significant challenges in terms of both recognition and prevention. Over the past few years, Perpetrators of human sex trafficking often employ many techniques in order to coerce or compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. A few of the physical acts of coersion may include threats of violence or direct acts of violence actual forms violence. Direct acts of violence may be sexual abuse such as rape or date rape

1) Any sex guilty party could at present be viewed as fierce regardless of the possibility that they did not kill their casualties. The perpetual physical, passionate, and mental scars that sex guilty parties leave their casualties and the life changing harms groups of casualties’ experience is sufficiently awful. No, regardless of the possibility that a sex wrongdoer does not kill their casualties, there is a potential hazard that they could in any case display vicious inclinations and can hurt somebody.

With the rise of books like Fifty Shades of Grey, there are many questions being asked about what the real effects of BDSM (bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadism and masochism (sadomasochism)) relationships are on participants (Turley et al 123, McDonald). There’s the question of where the boundary between abuse and recreational play is drawn, where the psychological implications of the relationship becomes too much for the individual, but all of that can be boiled down to just a few points to explore. In order to really understand what all comes with these relationships, we must look at the experiences of participants, seeking to understand what BDSM is, and what it means. We must

Bundy was an interesting character in the history of serial killing. He was an innocent boy until things in his life started to change and it changed him as a whole. (Rundy.2008) Born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946 to his mother Louise Cowell. Ted and his mother were living in with his grandparents for a while, then the family noticed they had to be gone because of Ted’s grandfather.

Emotional congruence implies that the offenders emotional and needs correspond to the characteristics of a child. That is, sex with children is emotionally satisfying for the offender. Here, Finkelhor (1984) suggests that men are socialized to behave in a dominant and powerful manner in sexual relationships, and implies that characteristics of children (small, young, week) act as a cue for the availability of them as sexual partners (Ward, Polascheck & Beech, 2006). In support of that notion, Howells (1994) pointed out that it is not uncommon in clinical practice for child molesters to report an affinity for children. A study by Howells (1979) indicates that child sex offenders are more preoccupied with dominance in their constructions of relationships than controls, and view children as non-domineering and hence attractive (see

Roy F. Baumeister explores the taboo lifestyles of sadomasochism. The main theme and purpose of the piece is to find out who are masochists, and what do they put themselves through in the name of pleasure. "Across the country, from sophisticated cities to subdued suburbs, men and women are acting out fantasies of sexual domination and submission." (Psychology Today 47) I believe that Baumeister describes a very accurate portrait of who one specific group of masochists is and what they do for pleasure, however, I feel that he fails to recognize the younger generation of masochists. I also feel that on the issue symbolic of sex change, Baumeister does not elaborate enough.

Sexual homicide is defined as the killing of another in the context of power, control, sexuality, and aggressive brutality (Burgess, Hartman, Ressler, Douglas, & McCormack, 1986). Terms associated with sexual homicide include lusk killing, lust murder, sadistic murder, sadistic lust murder, and rape murder (Schlesinger, 2007). There are reasons for the above terms they includesexual homicide is not legally defined, sexual homicide is not defined clinically, and while homicide is defined similarly in many countries, the sexual element of it appears problematic (Schlesinger, 2007). There are two types of sexual homicide they are catathymic and compulsive murders (Schlesinger, 2007) Catathymic murder refer to homicides that are the result of a underlying sexual conflict, they tend to both planned and unplanned with can stem from an obsession or a disturbed attachment towards the victim (Schlesinger, 2007). Author Schlesinger (2007) discusses the process of catathymic they include: early trauma leads to a change in thinking, a violent idea emerges, an extreme emotional tension develops and the violent act is carried out, following the violence, a superficial normality occurs, and tension is lifted, insight and recovery ensue, or the process can be repeated (Schlesingr, 2007).

     Cohen, Seghorn, and Calmas (1969) described three types of child molesters derived from their clinical studies. One type had a history of relatively normal functioning and the incident of molestation appears to reflect a reaction to a severe threat to their sense of sexual adequacy. Another type had a history of poor social-sexual functioning and is regarded as primitive and immature in terms of social-sexual skills. The last type they found in their study had offenses involving cruel and vicious assaults on children and the act of molestation is regarded as more aggressive then sexual. (Mc Creary, 1975)

There have been some studies conducted and evidence has been gathered that likely supports both parts of the sexual preference theory, however, many studies have also concluded that there were no differences between rapists and nonrapists during testing. (Looman, 2005) According to Barbaree and Marshall (1991), the level of sexual arousal a rapist experiences is determined by what type of rapist he is. A sexual sadist, as predicted, would likely show sexual arousal when presented with stimuli indicating sexual coercion. However, an opportunistic rapist would likely show no evidence of arousal when subjected to rape stimuli. On the other hand, a revenge-seeking or anger-driven rapist would show more sexual arousal from the violence displayed during the stimuli. Based on this evidence, it is this author’s conclusion that sexual desire plays little to no role in the motives of the nonsadistic rapists. (Barbaree & Marshall, 1991)