sp6r=underrated wrote:I haven't read the entire thread.
Exhibitionism is a paraphilia, which means abnormal sexual desires/interests. Men make up the vast majority of paraphilia cases. A significant minority of paraphilia patients have more than one. It is unclear what causes them. I avoid using terms such as traumatize since it diverts conversation. But male exhibitionists usually target women and children. And the vast majority of women and children hate it.
Tough on crime policies typically don't work, especially in cases such as this. Certainty of punishment matters much more than the harshness of punishment.
I'm okay with Primo continuing his basketball career. But it is very important that he receives some criminal punishment everytime he engages in these actions. The harshness of the punishment isn't as important. It also makes some sense to register him as a sex offender for a period of time. People with paraphilias commit a disproportionate amount of sex offenses.
This could be just me rambling, but it feels like there are some parallels to this Netflix series I just blew through about stalking.
It's a tricky crime. Unfortunately a ton of stalking cases talk place every year, and fortunately the majority of them don't progress significantly beyond that into violence or worse. But it does happen regularly, and the law just isn't even remotely equipped to handle it. Even when you have instances where the police/prosecutors want to do something, they usually have to wait until a victim is already in severe jeopardy to have enough firepower for a conviction, largely because juries tend to be hard to sway. "They called a bunch of times, what's the big deal?" If you don't have at least a protective order in place, at which point you've already been threatened at a bare minimum, your chances of anything happening are nil.
So in this case, at least the punishment was swift, and hopefully he'll do something to handle his sht.
On that note, I have a coworker who just had to move out of her apartment because she's 99.9 pct sure some insane-o at her complex shot through her bedroom window because she didn't respond to a note they left on her windshield. Her windows faced into an inner courtyard, and on a higher floor so there's almost no chance it was a stray bullet or something random. Sadder still, her own dad thought she was overreacting.
My sister's pretty hard to rattle -- her reaction to being flashed would probably be to make fun of their dick -- but even she tells me all the time, you guys have no f'ing idea what we deal with.
