English: The criminal sexual sadist: [10,900]

Now everyone pretty much understands that I am totally against anyone who commits a sexual based offense. For the next few Articles, I will be discussing that taboo subject. Rapists are usually divided into five distinct groups, according to the law; in these articles I will be discussing what law enforcement officials term as aggravating and informative factors. I believe that each of these articles are a must for you, the reader, to be fully aware and informed so that you can make decisions that could [potentially] safe you a lot of grief.  And here we go:

This article describes the more commonly encountered actions of sexual sadists and differentiates sexual sadism from other cruel acts. It also describes the common characteristics of sexually sadistic crimes and offers police investigators suggestions that they should follow when confronted with the crimes of the sexually sadistic offender. Any investigator who has taken a statement from a tortured victim or who has worked the crime scene of a sexually sadistic homicide will never forget the experience. Human cruelty reveals itself in many kinds of offenses, but seldom more starkly than in the crimes of sexual sadists.

What Is sexual sadism?
Sexual sadism is a persistent pattern of becoming sexually excited in response to another is suffering. Granted, sexual excitement can occur at odd times even in normal people. Nevertheless, to the sexually sadistic offender, it is the suffering of the victim that is sexually arousing.

The writings of two sexual sadists graphically convey their desires. One writes: “…the most important radical aim is to make her suffer since there is no greater power over another person than that of inflicting pain on her to force her to undergo suffering without her being able to defend herself. The pleasure in the complete domination over another person is the very essence
of the sadistic drive.”

Of his sexually sadistic activities with a victim he killed, another person writes  “…she was withering in pain and I loved it. I was now combining my sexual high of rape and my power high of fear to make a total sum that is now beyond explaining…I was alive for the sole purpose of causing pain and receiving sexual gratification…I was relishing the pain just as much as the sex….”

Each person’s account confirms that it is the suffering of the victim, not the infliction of physical or psychological pain that is sexually arousing. In fact, one of these men resuscitated his victim from unconsciousness so that he could continue to savor her suffering. Inflicting pain is a means to create suffering and to elicit the desired responses of obedience, submission, humiliation, fear, and terror.

Physical and Psychological Suffering
Specific findings uncovered during an investigation determine if the crime committed involves sexual sadism. The critical issues are whether the victim suffered, whether the suffering was intentionally elicited, and whether the suffering sexually aroused the offender. This is why neither sexual nor cruel acts committed on an unconscious or dead victim is necessarily evidence of sexual sadism; such a victim cannot experience suffering. For this reason, postmortem injuries alone do not indicate sexual sadism.

Rapists cause their victims to suffer, but only sexual sadists intentionally inflict that suffering, whether physical or psychological, to enhance their own sexual arousal. Neither the severity of an offender’s cruelty nor the extent of a victim’s suffering is evidence of sexual sadism. Acts of extreme cruelty or those that cause great suffering are often performed for nonsexual purposes,
even during sexual assaults.

Sexually Sadistic Behavior
The behavior of sexual sadists, like that of other sexual deviants, extends along a wide spectrum. Sexual sadists can be law-abiding citizens who fantasize but do not act or who fulfill these fantasies with freely consenting partners. Only when sexual sadists commit crimes do their fantasies become relevant to law enforcement.

Sadistic Fantasy
All sexual acts and sexual crimes begin with fantasy. However, in contrast with normal sexual fantasies, those of the sexual sadist center on domination, control, humiliation, pain, injury, and violence, or a combination of these themes, as a means to elicit suffering. As the fantasies of the sexual sadist vary, so does the degree of violence.

By digesting the information of previous sex assaults, and those who committed those crimes, it is thought, that we may all learn for ‘the mistakes of the past.’ Thereby equipping us for the future.  As always, stay safe!

- Bird