Sylvie Garcia’s Reviews > Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present > Status Update
Sylvie Garcia
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Interesting discussion of the move from mid-20th century from focussing on the act of rape (criminalisation) to the identity of the rapist (pathology). Of course, the question of who receives treatment depends on race, class, perceived intelligence. In surveys of the general public in 1950s, it seems treatment was preferable even for paedophiles, whereas today's thinking tends towards criminalisation.
— Mar 29, 2025 05:45PM
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Sylvie Garcia
is on page 297 of 576
The emergence of the term "sexual psychopath" arose in a period where it was politically expedient for governments to seem tough on crime. This diagnosis could lead to indefinite incarceration and circumvented legal processes and verdicts, and often applied to non-violent sex criminals (including gays). The most violent sex criminals may not have been subject to this as they didn't display symptoms of mental illness.
— Apr 15, 2025 07:03PM
Sylvie Garcia
is on page 284 of 576
I hate psychoanalysis, not least of all because a woman is always to blame for a man's behaviour. Apparently men are exhibitionists because they have narcissistic mothers or frigid wives. One cure depends on directing their rage upon their wives, another demands that their wife is sexually available at any time to him. Exhibitionists are white men, men of colour are indecent exposers.
— Apr 14, 2025 09:20AM
