Nothing And No One To Fear! I Really Mean It!

“Without fear there cannot be courage."

"Often a damaged amygdala can cause impairment in the recognition of fear

This impairment can cause different species to lack the sensation of fear,

 and often can become overly confident, confronting larger peers, 

or walking up to predatory creatures,"

The Cornucopia Of Sexual Acts On The Internet

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

END OF LOVE

"Matt, Neil, Josh and Zach sought out pornography on the Internet as adolescents. Today they are convicted felons on the National Sex Offender Registry. Their names, photos and addresses are public information available on the Internet. Their residency, movement and employment options are extremely limited.

END OF LOVE is about the epidemic of adolescent boys and men who are being convicted of downloading child pornography. Law enforcement officials say that these charges constitute the fastest growing prosecuted crimes in the US. What is going on?

END OF LOVE questions why and how the impulse to seek out child pornography originates in boys and men who do not have the typical pedophile profile. Is their on-line sexual exploration and arousal responding to the normalization of the sexualized images of underage girls in popular and consumer culture? Taking into consideration new discoveries in brain development and addictive behavior, does uncontrolled access to the cornucopia of sexual acts on the Internet at an early age pre-dispose youth to become eventual consumers of child pornography? Or not?"

http://endoflovefilm.com/home

http://endoflovefilm.com/watch-film

http://sexoffenderissues.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/end-of-love-video-series.html#.UmaqnVOeJUY

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Oct 21, 2013 / 5:00 am

How pornography ruins children [sic]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news-story-100745-1056-.htm

Moral Meat

October 7, 2013

Brain Region Tied to Compliance with Social Norms

"“We found that the brain mechanism responsible for compliance with social norms is separate from the processes that represent one’s knowledge and beliefs about the social norm,” said Ernst Fehr, Ph.D.

“This could have important implications for the legal system as the ability to distinguish between right and wrong may not be sufficient for the ability to comply with social norms.”

Said Ruff, “Our findings show that a socially and evolutionarily important aspect of human behavior depends on a specific neural mechanism that can be both up- and down-regulated with brain stimulation.”"

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/10/07/brain-region-tied-to-compliance-with-social-norms/60440.html

So, What You Are Telling Us, Is That Porn Helps Us Feel Good - Whodathunkit?

PUBLISHED: 09:09, 22 September 2013 | UPDATED: 15:20, 22 September 2013

Compulsive pornography users shows the same brain activity as alcoholics and drug addicts

"'Addiction' part of brain flashes when 'porn addicts' viewed x-rated material.

The results are expected to open up debate on porn as an addiction [why?]

"Regular porn users show the same kind of brain activity as drug addicts and alcoholics, scientists have claimed.

In a new study, scans have revealed how the part of the brain which is stimulated when drug users and heavy drinkers indulge in their addiction is also activated when those hooked on porn watch x-rated images and videos.

In an alarming set of results [why?], this effect was not present in those who don't use porn regularly. [no shit]

Addict: The Cambridge University study has revealed worrying [why?] similarities in the brain activity of porn addicts and those hooked on alcohol and drugs.

The research, carried out by Cambridge University used MRI scans to study the brains of 19 participants who came forward for the experiment, admitting that they had a problem [not enough porn?] with their porn habit.

Speaking in the Sunday Times, Dr Valerie Voon, the principal researcher in the study and a neuropsychiatrist at Cambridge, said: 'We found greater activity in an area of the brain called the ventral striatum, which is a reward centre, involved in processing reward, motivation and pleasure.'" [science is wonderful]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428861/Compulsive-pornography-users-shows-brain-activity-alcoholics-drug-addicts.html

Pornography addiction leads to same brain activity as alcoholism or drug abuse, study shows

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/pornography-addiction-leads-to-same-brain-activity-as-alcoholism-or-drug-abuse-study-shows-8832708.html

Brain scans of porn addicts: what's wrong with this picture?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/26/brain-scans-porn-addicts-sexual-tastes?CMP=twt_gu 

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Dr Valerie Voon

http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?vv247

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Published on July 25, 2013

Your Brain on Porn - It's NOT Addictive

"What neurological research ACTUALLY shows about the people who use porn."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201307/your-brain-porn-its-not-addictive

We Should Be Delighted To, Richard - Watch This Space ...

Friday, 30 August 2013

Sexual Orientation, Mental Disorder, Disability Or Just Plain Perversion

""Mental disorder", "disability", "sexual orientation", "the result of childhood abuse", a vile "fetish" or something else? Someone tell me please - the world nowadays seems to find an endless supply of excuses for paedophilia [sic], instead of concentrating on dealing with and helping victims of these vile crimes [you see, there is your first error]."

http://jerseyric.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/sexual-orientation-mental-disorder.html

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On it soon.

For now, ponder on what you would do and how you would feel, if this happened to you, or someone close to you (it will become relevant, later) ...

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Frontal Lobe Tumor causes Pedophilia in a Man

http://mentalhealth.about.com/b/2003/07/29/frontal-lobe-tumor-causes-pedophilia-in-a-man.htm

Brain Damage, Pedophilia, and the Law

http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/brain-damage-pedophilia-and-law.html

Pedophilia and Temporal Lobe Disturbances

http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleID=100620

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Dr Oldfield's video, is also essential viewing ...

Pedophile, Minor-Attracted Adult or Merely Human?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_iEKadpaKQ

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The OSC 

The Fallibility Of Memory

14 August 2013

Evidence-based justice: Corrupted memory

"Elizabeth Loftus has spent decades exposing flaws in eyewitness testimony. Her ideas are gaining fresh traction in the US legal system.

In the early hours of 9 September, 1984, a stranger entered Mrs M's California home through an open living-room window. Finding Mrs M asleep, he tried to rape her, but fled when other people in the house awoke. Mrs M described her assailant to the police: he was black, weighing about 170 pounds and 5'7” to 5'9” tall, with small braids and a blue baseball cap.

Officers cruising her neighbourhood spotted someone roughly matching that description standing beside his car a block away from the house. The man, Joseph Pacely, said that his car had broken down and he was looking for someone to jump-start it. But Mrs M identified him as her attacker and he was charged ..."

http://www.nature.com/news/evidence-based-justice-corrupted-memory-1.13543 

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Posted: 10/26/2013 11:00 AM: Updated: 10/26/2013

The Urgent Need to Reform Police Collection of Eyewitness Evidence

http://content.intweetiv.com/view?title=The+Urgent+Need+to+Reform+Police+Collection+of+Eyewitness+Evidence&iframe=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tara-lai-quinlan/the-urgent-need-to-reform_b_4164848.html?utm_hp_ref=tedweekends&ir=TED+Weekends

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Filmed May 2012 • Posted Sep 2012

Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong

http://www.ted.com/talks/scott_fraser_the_problem_with_eyewitness_testimony.html?utm_source=twitter&source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ios-share

Would That Be 'Normal', James?

Tuesday 4 June 2013 6:24PM

The biology of paedophilia, or why there might not be one

"James Cantor says there is not much research to support the abused/abuser theory, where a victim also becomes an abuser in adulthood.

For many of us, sexual attraction to children is difficult to understand—let alone the disregard child-sex offenders have for the physical and emotional harm they can cause [sic] Lynne Malcolm examines the emotional psychology of paedophilia and explores if the brains of paedophiles make them a biologically different class of person."

"Assoc Professor Cantor agrees that the majority of paedophiles [sic] are ‘regular everyday people.’"

"Human societies up until recently have regarded the onset of puberty and not the end of puberty as the signal for sexual maturity. 150 years ago the age of consent in England was 10, so as a society our concern about protecting children from sexual exploitation is a relatively new thing" - Professor Stephen Smallbone

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/4732810

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Essay: The Vagaries and Changes of Perception

http://newgon.com/wiki/Essay:The_Vagaries_and_Changes_of_Perception

Same As Yours

May 03, 2013

The Evil Brain: What Lurks Inside a Killer’s Mind

"Homicidal madmen don’t have much of a capacity for gratitude, but if they did, they’d offer a word of thanks to Charles Whitman. Whitman was the 25-year-old engineering student and former Marine who, in 1966, killed 17 people and wounded 32 in a mass shooting at the University of Texas, before being shot and killed himself by police.

Earlier that day, he also murdered his wife and mother. Criminal investigators looking for a reason for the rampage got what seemed to be their answer quickly, in the form of a suicide note Whitman left at his home ..."

http://science.time.com/2013/05/03/evil-brain/

What Makes a Psychopath? Answers Remain Elusive 

http://www.livescience.com/7859-psychopath-answers-remain-elusive.html

What Makes Us Moral

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1685055_1685076_1686619,00.html

Free will is an illusion, biologist says 

http://phys.org/news186830615.html

Where evil lurks: Neurologist discovers 'dark patch' inside the brains of killers and rapists 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2273857/Neurologist-discovers-dark-patch-inside-brains-killers-rapists.html

Date: 06 February 2013 Time: 05:37 PM ET

Brain Area 'Where Evil Lurks' Doesn't Exist: Neurologist

"Is there really a part of the brain "where evil lurks"?

Evil is alive and is lurking in the brains of certain individuals, if you believe news reports linked to a respected German neurologist. The news of the scientist's discovery, however, has attracted some naysayers — including the neurologist himself.

According to The Independent, Dr. Gerhard Roth of the University of Bremen's Brain Research Institute reportedly discovered "the region of the brain where evil is formed and where it lurks" by performing brain scans on violent convicted felons ..."

http://www.livescience.com/26918-gerhard-roth-brain-area-evil.html

Reinforces Social Group Divisions And Perpetuates Essentialist Stereotypes

13 March, 2013

SpotOn NYC: Communication and the brain – Don’t Worry, It’s Science: There’s A Brain Scan

"When writing about anything pertaining to psychology or human nature, people love nothing more than a brain image lit up like a Christmas tree. These omnipresent images have been mockingly termed “brain porn”, defined by journalist Alissa Quart as a “willingness to accept seemingly neuroscientific explanations for nearly everything.”

According to a team of British scientists led by Cliodhna O’Connor, many popular science articles will include “logically irrelevant neuroscience information” intended to “imbue an argument with authoritative, scientific credibility” (McCabe & Castel, 2008; O’Connor et al., 2012). You might see scientists or science writers displaying neuroimaging data as proof that their claims are objective or real."

http://www.nature.com/spoton/2013/03/spoton-nyc-communication-and-the-brain-dont-worry-its-science-theres-a-brain-scan/

The Brain Scan Image and the Dangers of Brain Porn

http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/the-brain-scan-image-and-the-dangers-of-brain-porn

25 March 2013

Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend

"Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration

Activity in a particular region of the cortex could tell whether a convict is likely to get in trouble again.

In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and sooner."

http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-are-more-likely-to-reoffend-1.12672

03.26.13 3:40 PM

Brain Scans Predict Which Criminals Are Most Likely to Reoffend

"Brain scans of convicted felons can predict which ones are most likely to get arrested after they get out of prison, scientists have found in a study of 96 male offenders.

“It’s the first time brain scans have been used to predict recidivism,” said neuroscientist Kent Kiehl of the Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who led the new study. Even so, Kiehl and others caution that the method is nowhere near ready to be used in real-life decisions about sentencing or parole."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/03/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-will-reoffend/