Today’s Agonizing Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
The Middle Ages, while not known for many breakthroughs, did succeed in producing some of the most disgusting mouths in the history of the human race. Teeth were at an all-time low: rotting, blackened, cracked, painful.
Sometimes, itinerant teeth pullers in Europe wandered from town to town with a little medicine show, climaxed by the locals watching their brethren writhe in agony while teeth were yanked by long metal pliers. Barbers—along with surgery and hair cutting—did tooth pulling. Remember, there was no local anesthetic.
It’s no wonder the Church did a thriving business in devotional offerings to Saint Apollonia, the patron saint of tooth pain.
According to legend, Apollonia—the daughter of a pagan magistrate in Alexandria, Egypt—decided to convert to Christianity. The young woman was tortured to renounce Christ and return to the Roman gods, but she refused. The authorities started pulling her teeth out one by one. Still, she refused. She died a martyr’s death at the stake. In 300 A.D., she was canonized.

Culled by: An Underground Education
Sexual Deviant Du Jour!
The Sexual Criminal is a 1949 criminology textbook written by infamous Los Angeles County criminal psychiatrist J. Paul De River that is jam-packed with all the sexism and homophobia common to its era. I thought I’d share some of the case studies with you.
Case Study 110 B.H., age twenty-one, white male; his education consists of two years of high school. He was discharged from the military service for being A.W.O.L., and given a bad conduct discharge. Present occupation: hospital attendant.

Family History: His mother is living and in good health. His father is alive; he thinks he is well, but he hasn’t seen him for about fourteen years. His parents are divorced, mother remarried. There is a negative family history of insanity, epilepsy, and all constitutional diseases.
Past History: He states his health has always been excellent. He has a past criminal record. At the age of sixteen he was arrested for stealing an automobile and was sent to a juvenile boys’ camp for five months. He was arrested at the age of nineteen for grand theft auto, and again at the age of eighteen when he was given forty days in jail and three years suspended sentence. He was then arrested two years ago, and given eighteen months. He was paroled in fifty-two days but violated his parole and served a year in the penitentiary. He drinks, sometimes to excess, uses tobacco, denies the use of narcotics.
His sexual history began at the age of seven with acts of masturbation which occurred intermittently. Shortly after this he permitted an older boy to commit an act of oral copulation on his person. These acts occurred over a period of months at frequent intervals. He indulged also in acts of fellatio. About the age of nine, he was seduced into heterosexual practices by a girl eighteen. These acts were repeated perhaps two or three times. He has had numerous women in his lifetime for sexual intercourse. He has permitted homosexual acts to be practiced on him at various times, mostly for money. While he was in the penitentiary he indulged in homosexual acts. He denies unnatural practices with females. He states that there is no love affair during his homosexual association with men. He claims he indulged in these practices only to get sexual relief, or to receive money.
Somatic Examination: He is well-developed and well-nourished, athletic schizothymic physique, blond hair, gray eyes with heavy bushy brows. His face is egg-shaped with a squared-off chin and dimple. He has an aquiline nose, long neck, and prominent thyroid cartilage. The heart and lungs are negative. There is a good distribution of hair over the body and extremities. The glandular, bony, vascular, and muscular systems are negative. There is a superficial laceration, one inch, base of left scapula, approximately thirty-six hours old. Laceration of right thumb and right index finger, scar inner side of right wrist, one-fourth inch in length. Right anterior surface of right wrist, one-fourth inch scar, dorsal surface of hand at base of thumb. This scar resembles a pin scratch or a fingernail mark. There is a recent scar, posterior surface of penis just behind corona of glans-penis. This also resembles a scratch mark. There is an old healed scar, right upper hip. The genitalia are well-developed. There is a scar on the left upper thigh which was bandaged at the emergency hospital. His pupils are equal and react to light and accommodation. The superficial and deep reflexes are present.
Psychic Examination: He is well orientated as to time, places, dates, and persons. He states that he sleeps well, is not worried, and gets along well with people. He considers himself agreeable and states, “I am the happy type.” He doesn’t think he has any enemies. His wealth of knowledge is good. He performs the test for the opposites correctly and the backward and forward test correctly. He has no delusions, illusions, or hallucinations. His reaction time is prompt. He is not disassociated. He is high-tempered and explosive.
Statements Relative to His Present Offense: The following questions were asked of the subject and the following answers received:
Q: How do you feel about killing Mr. S.?
A: I feel awfully worried, and I didn’t know I was going so far, but I seemed to lose control of myself, and I didn’t know what I was doing until it happened. I just seemed to get excited and did this thing, and I didn’t know that I was killing.
Q: Do you think you are insane?
A: I couldn’t say whether I was nor not.
Q: How do you feel now? Do you think you are sane?
A: I don’t know but I feel I must have been upset. I thought I’d just put him out. I thought he could untie himself. You see, in the hospital where I work, when the patient is a neurotic we take a towel and put it around his neck, and sometimes if he is excited we twist it until he quiets down. I was taught this when I went to hospital school where I was being trained as a hospital attendant, and also in the penitentiary, as I was in the psychiatric ward.
Q: How long had you known the victim?
A: I met him in November. He picked me up. That first night he asked me if I was a movie star, when I told him no, he says well why don’t you go in pictures. I said I had no desire to go in pictures. Well, we drove out and ended up in his home. He asked me in for a drink, but I had another date and didn’t join him, and he let me out at a club house, an actor’s school home. I saw him in December, he phoned and invited me to dinner, and I told him I’d be there about eight-thirty. I had a date that night with a friend, a young lady. I like to dance and she asked me to go to the Palladium with her. This was about seven o’clock. However, I called Mr. S. and told him I’d be by later. Well, I did drop by his place to see him and he was waiting for me. He was alone. He seemed to be disappointed that I didn’t come earlier. After we’d had a few drinks he suggested that I spend the night there, and he’d drive me to work in the morning. We lay there talking and he snuggled up to me and said he couldn’t get warm. Finally he started getting friendly with me and we indulged in mutual masturbation, and he asked me to perform an act of sodomy with him, which I did. After the act was completed I was tired and wanted to go to sleep. In fact I was about asleep when he started all over again and used his mouth on me. Then we went to sleep. Later on in the night he did the same thing. Sometime in the early morning — it was just after I had him make coffee, I started to get up but felt sleepy. Suddenly I woke up and found that the was doing the same thing with his mouth. I got excited and began to scuffle with him, and he fell on the floor and got back up. I reached over and grabbed his privates and he grabbed me, and he hurt me. We began to fight. There was an ash tray on the side of the bed, and I grabbed it and hit him on the side of the head. He fell over the bed, but we continued to scuffle as he got up and I hit him, with my hand, in the face. Finally I hit him on the side of the head, and he fell down on the floor. I picked up a necktie and tied it around his neck. Then I tied his feet. He was still trying to get up, and then I saw my undershirt and I put it around his neck. He just lay there breathing deeply and making a funny gurgling sound. Then I put on my clothes, but I discovered there was blood all over me, and I didn’t continue to dress but took a shower.
Q: Did you know whether you had killed him or not?
A: I don’t know. I didn’t notice. The last I saw him he was breathing and making a sound.

The victim in the case of B.H.
Q: Then what did you do?
A: Well, I finished dressing and I went down to his car. I then took his keys. then I got out of the car, and went back to the apartment. I picked out some of his clothes and took them with me.
Q: Where did you find his car keys?
A: On top of the dresser.
Q: What else did you find?
A: I took a wallet off the dresser.
Q: Did you take any money?
A: I took what was in the wallet — five or six dollars.
Q: Then what did you do?
A: I got in the car, drove to the hospital and talked to some fellows. And it was about time I started to eat lunch, but my hand was cut and bleeding. So I went and got some clothes and told the fellow in charge of the hospital attendants that I was going to San Francisco. Well, I got about as far as Sacramento, and I stayed there for a time, and then I headed back and I was arrested for speeding. When they found out the car didn’t belong to me, anyway, I told them I had been in a fight with a fellow, but that I was taking his car and clothes back to him. They didn’t believe me and that’s why I was arrested.
Q: You do remember tying the necktie about Mr. S.’s neck, don’t you?
A: Yes.
Q: Why did you do that?
A: I tried to get even with him and make him quit.
Q: Did you choke him with your hands?
A: Yes.
Q: Where was he when you put the necktie about his neck?
A: He was lying on the floor.
Q: Did you intend to kill him?
A: Well, I don’t know, but I don’t think so. I just go excited and thought I’d teach him a lesson.
Q: Did you know he was dead when you left?
A: I don’t know. I really found out when I was arrested.
Q: You realize that you have done wrong, don’t you?
A: Yes.
Q: Did you realize that what you were doing was wrong at the time you killed him?
A: Yes, but I was so mad, I didn’t stop to think.
Q: When you got out of the car and went back to the apartment to get your clothes, did you look to see how Mr. S. was?
A: I didn’t notice.

Scene of the crime. Note the condition of room and condition of victim’s body Death resulted from strangulation.
Analysis and Conclusion: B.H. is medically and legally sane. Early environment undoubtedly played a great part in this subject becoming a criminal. We learn that he is from a broken home; his mother, after divorcing his father, remarried. There was undoubtedly no great family tie to either of his parents. He admits that he has not seen his father for fourteen years. At the tender age of seven he began to indulge in acts of masturbation and shortly thereafter he was seduced into perverted homosexual practices by an older boy. This was followed by his introduction into heterosexual relationships at the age of nine years, when he was seduced by a girl of eighteen years. From his sexual history we also note that he indulged in sexual acts of both hetero and homosexual nature. From this we must conclude that he is of bisexual nature. He also indulged in homosexual practices on most occasions for money, which puts him in the category of a male prostitute.
He deliberately and brutally murdered his victim, a man some thirty years his senior, after spending a night of homosexual debauchery. During the interrogation and examination, he displayed little remorse (affectively cold) for the commission of his sadistic homosexual murder. He freely admitted he had stolen the contents of his victim’s purse, his clothes and automobile, demonstrating a common practice found among homosexual murderers.
(This subject was tried, found guilty of first degree murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment.)