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Karmastic -> RE: VOYEURISM PERPETUATES INCREASED SEX OFFENCES! (4/21/2012 11:30:41 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Focus50
Everyone has a level of voyeurism in them. And it's generally a fascination with primitive aspects of human behaviour.
Two kids fight in a schoolyard - and what do the rest instinctively do? Lol, when I went to school, the kids forming a circle around to watch were usually the first to feel the wrath of teachers coming to break it up.
Traffic slows to a crawl at the scene of a crash, even though the road may not be blocked. In Oz, the term we use for that is "rubber-necking". You just know people are secretly hoping to see some blood.... I mean, who really goes to the carnival hoping that some stunt rider will successfully clear a world record leap over a bunch of cars? The dark and primitive in us is hoping to see a wreck.
And then there's sexual voyeurism.... Same principle because it's base, animal behaviour. That we're really not as civilised as we like to delude ourselves about. Personally, I think the only dangerous aspect or consequence of voyeurism (re inciting related criminal behaviour) is when something is overplayed to a point of de-sensitising us to certain activities.... It's just that when the blood and misery is real life and in your face, it makes for compelling viewing.
Overall, I don't think voyeurism is the catalyst for sex offences so much as the sex offender is. That, and opportunity....
Focus.
very well said, agree 100% (although i'm weird, and do NOT like seeing car wrecks and crashes at races - just near misses, like the roller coaster concept)
of course voyeurism in whatever form doesn't help perpetuate or increase the likelihood of crossing over into a more physical sexual crime (because i think some forms of voyeurism are sex crimes). but take into account what Focus said about opportunity and proclivity towards sex crimes. if someone is already inclined to trespass and step thru that window, voyeurism is just a means (and the start) to that end.
i see this sensationalism around certain types of sexual behavior. we've all seen the classic gay hysteria, that gay men are more likely to molest children (total bullshit), so they shouldn't be allowed to adopt. we see similar hysteria for other "disliked" sexual preferences. if we follow this ignorant logic, then it means a straight man will rape women because he likes women.
re voyeurism, i'll admit that i've tremendously enjoyed when neighbors weren't concerned with closing their curtains while undressing, and of course i had different fantasies about having sex with some of them. but that's a far cry from really considering doing it IRL.
if anything, i think voyeurism is an outlet for sexual satisfaction, that as Focus pointed out, all of us share to one degree or another, in various flavors and forms. if u try and stifle that, then it will lead to more real physical sex crimes because something's gotta give.
EDIT PS: thank you OP, great thread. i think the concept you allude to has been similarly abused in the realm of drugs, ala the old film Reefer Madness. that film sensationally and hysterically exaggerated the effects of the light drug marijuana (by comparison to OP, voyeurism), and made the logically invalid jump/assumption that it would lead to harder drugs and outlandish behavior (by comparison to OP, physical sex crimes).
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