Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXseems to be twofold. One, there is, so far as we know, noplace where such a man can be sent for detention andtreatment, and two, as the prisondoctor would only saythe man was sub-normal and would not certify, we hadno power over him. The result is that a healthy man of 38,who may well live to be 68, will in six months be let looseand as likely as not repeat his offense. He had a very goodwere much concerned aboutarmy record. Other justicesthe case and I was cheered to notice that the feeling of theBench was much against sending such a man to prison.The only alternative was to release him. Happily we arepast the stage of flogging which is of course provided forunder the Statute and would certainly have been inflictedtwo or three years ago."Another magistrate,who is a physician and psycho-therapist,writes to me in this connection: "I have seen a goodmany such cases on the Bench; they are very sad indeed.Some I have managed to get off; others had to take theirpunishment 'according to the law/ There is no doubt thatthe majority need psycho-therapeutic treatment, beingmental cases rather than criminal offenders. Many aregenuinely horrified at their own practise which theystrenuously try to control. Much propaganda is necessaryto effect a change in the conventional outlook."With regard to the therapeutic treatment, I should liketo point out that it is most likely to prove effective ifcarried out in connection with a sun-bathing camp onnudist lines of the kind now becoming widely recognizedand accepted. If the exhibitionist is often simply a narcissistof unusually pronounced type, presenting impulseswhich are not necessarily anti-social, and indeed, undersome conditions socially recognizable, to give him an opportunityfor their legitimate manifestation is to conferupon him a new power of self-control. An exhibitionist