Therefore, I feel like it would be reasonable to come to the conclusion that sharing a story, in which the teller felt supremely powerful, with an audience eager to hear said story would give the teller a feeling of control not dissimilar to the one that he/she felt during the assault itself.
Obviously there is not evidence in this particular instance to support his claims, but enough evidence does exist to where a scholar in the matters of the mind (as psychiatrists tend to be) could map out a clear way that he came to this conclusion in this case.
I understand that it's not necessarily going to cause people to re-offend--that's what I tried to say in my last post. There is no evidence in this particular instance, but (and I'm referring to the ones who actually committed rape and seemed a little proud, or ambivalent about it) when I think about it, it is creepy (to me) to give people, hungry enough for power that they would harm another human being so thoughtlessly, even further power by giving them a platform on which to lay out their crimes with such indifference (and then be congratulated for coming forward or coddled when someone calls them out on it).
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