Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Aversion Therapy, Meta-Analysis, Rape Fantasy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Sexual assault is most often committed by strangers: woman "ask for it" by the way they dress, avoid being alone in dark, deserted places, woman derive pleasure from being a victim, woman lie about sexual assault. Classification of sexual offenders: voyeurs, exhibitionists, rapists, pedophiles (not all pedophiles are child molesters, there are people who are attracted to children but have never acted upon this, child molesters. Rapist typologies: anger rapist (most common- 50%, power rapist. Intention to assert dominance and control over the victim: variation in amount of force used depending on the degree of submission shown by the victim, not being motivated primarily by sexual gratification, about 40% of rapists fit this. Sadistic rapists: obtaining sexual gratification by hurting the victim, high levels of victim injury including torture and sometimes death, here sexual gratification is a primary motivation. Subdivided into 2 types based on coercion: sex pressure, sex force: exploitative type and sadistic type.