The Sexual Criminal: A Psychoanalytical Study
by J. Paul De River
A 1949 vintage 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. Among many fascinations, I learned that a women who enjoys being orally pleasured is a masochist, a man who likes to orally pleasure women is a pervert, and homosexuals are psychopaths who need to be given shock therapy. Apart from those revelations, there are a number of case studies from a variety of sex crimes – from the truly shocking (a man who strangled three children because he wanted to have sex with them but couldn’t do it when they were alive because he “didn’t want to hurt them”) to the merely amusing (the sadist who had a violent orgy with himself in the muddy field at night). Some of the case studies have rather graphic photographs (including the most violent murderer, who cut his victims into pieces after killing them), so the book is definitely not for the squeamish, but it is a fascinating historical document. (4/5)
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