Sexual Repression and Aggression

Criminal psychopaths are usually very rigid moralists.

The relation between sex repression and aggression is a powerful argument against any form of sexual repression, inclusive the repression of pedosexual relations.

Contents

• O'Carroll1980 p.103-104
• Fox1980 p.194
• Churchill1968 p.144
• Geiser1979 p.120
• Alcock1976 p.107-108
• Alcock1976 p.146
• Förster1984

O'Carroll 1980, p.103-104

Hans Eysenck studied sexual attitudes of a group of 186 male subjects, and he summarised his findings as follows:

• They consciously try to avoid sexual thoughts;
• they think only rarely about sex;
• they don't think about sex every day;
• sex is not all that important to them;
• they do not get sexually exited very easily;
• they can take sex or leave it;
• thinking about illicit relationships does not excite them;
• they regard the purpose of sex as reproduction rather than pleasure;
• they draw sharp lines between what is right and what is wrong in sexual conduct;
• they prefer intercourse carried out under bed-clothes and in the dark;
• they would not take the opportunity of watching a couple making love;
• they feel disgust at seeing animals having sexual intercourse;
• there are some sexual acts they would never perform with anyone;
• they object to the use of four-letter words in mixed company;
• they oppose the free publication of pornographic writing;
• they would protect their children from all contact with sex;
• they do not regard sex play among young children as harmless;
• they do not think that a woman should be ocassionaly sexually aggressive;
• they think it right that the man should be dominant;
• they regard virginity as a girl's most valuable possession.

( Bronsgersma 1990, p.182-183)

Fox 1980, p.194

Bart Delin, studying rapists, found "a rigid religious instruction" and "inadequate sexual education" a common dominator.

( Bronsgersma 1990, p.183)

Hardened offenders are not licentious people oblivious of social norms. Quite the contrary: they are usually rigid moralists with an exaggerated and unrealistic sense of right and wrong, justice and injustice.

(p.183)

When Geiser matched rapists with non-sex-offenders, it appeared that they first saw depictions of heterosexual intercourse at an average age of 18.2 years, while for the control group this happened at 15. Their first experience of sexual intercourse occured substantially later than with the average boy, and thereafter they had intercourse much less frequently.

(p.183)

Most remarkable is a sudy of 800 Canadian school children from grades seven through 12. " It was found that children from more religious homes - both Protestant and Roman Catholic - were more loving and more internationally-minded than children with no religious training up to grades seven, eight and nine." Then, at the approach of puberty, a strange thing happened: school children with religious training "hardened" and became more warlike than the children from non-church-going families. Moreover, the gap between the two groups widened each year thereafter.

(p.184)

Another Canadian study in 1962 dealt with militaristic and authotarian political convictions. These were strong in all Christian denominations, and the more fundamentalist the denomination the more intense these attitudes were. The only exception was the Quaker sect, which is characterised by a rather positive view of sex

(p.184)

Jürgen Bartsch who, at the age of 15, raped, tortured and killed a younger boy and three years later similarly murdered an additional three boys, was brought up to view sex with horror and was generally regarded as a very well-behaved youth.

(p.186)