“Thanks for your comments. I tend to think that it is more about sex than some folks want to think. I will accept that there are cases where foreign objects are used, and that tends to skew the issue. It’s a form of perversion at that point, absent consent.”
Might depend on the proportion of assailants that are sociopaths. According to sociopaths, they will have sex or rape but are not interested in sex in and of itself. I was surprised when a number of sociopaths described themselves as asexual. But we know sociopaths can be serial rapists or simply constantly promiscuous men. But when asked, the sociopaths report that sex or rape is just an unimportant tool used to get what they want (control of someone else) and that its the violation and control of another human that generates the closest thing to pleasure for them. It’s not realistic to try to “profile” how they think - it’s too twisted for a normal person to grasp and some people have reported that doing so seems to be damaging (traumatizing) to normals. For example, trying to really “understand” a perp who could rape a 100 year old woman is not healthy, your mind would have to momentarily embrace unthinkable, warped thoughts. Not that a person would then be tempted, but that humans were never meant to bend/break their minds like that. This comes to mind when we are asked to “understand” terrorists who kill gleefully - actually getting inside their minds an trying to embrace their world view just long enough to “understand” would not be psychological healthy for any normal person.
I don’t have a particular beef with your comments. I think they are one person’s attempt to address this rationally. Your attempt may be a lot better than mine.
The one possible problem I see here is the idea an interview with these incredibly flawed people, would see them providing an unbiased accurate explanation that wasn’t focused on gaming perceptions to the extent that anything meaningful couldn’t be gleaned from it.
Deviated personalities, seem to see themselves as the normal people, and others to be operating in a fantasy world.
Aren’t these the ultimate “if it feels good do it folks”? Do they experience true guilt? Wouldn’t they be happy if not caught and allowed to do whatever they want? I realize nothing may bring them true happiness, but relatively isn’t this what gets them as close to happiness as they get.
That being the case, how can they self-analyze?