09/11/2024
While the innocent are no strangers to violence, and never have been, the recent upsurge in criminal activity has taken a particularly grim toll of the unsuspecting bystander. And the reasons for their molestation’s have been more sinister. Today’s newspapers are filled with stories of oil company executives kidnapped for political purposes, of young heiresses […]
09/11/2024
Immoral people capitalizing on the innocence of others to achieve their goals — a story as old as man. The Bible, history books, law books — all chronicle episodes where one individual has been manipulated for the sake of another. And when the victim is young and innocent, the story is so much the sadder… […]
09/11/2024
The onset of puberty inevitably brings with it the dawning awareness of sexuality, of a child’s inherent masculinity or femininity, and the struggle to put that sexuality into proper perspective with internalized standards and parentally prescribed teachings. For some, the transition occurs with relative ease. For others, the change is marked by tension and anxiety, […]
09/11/2024
Oftentimes, strange and unconventional desires lurk beneath the veneer of normalcy many individuals project. Given the right set of circumstances, these desires cease to be repressed — and are eventually acted out. Certain individuals attempt to retaliate against the increasing necessity to comply with society’s demands by embracing unorthodox modes of behavior. Subcultures exist in […]
09/11/2024
A mother’s desire for her son is a subject as old as the world of literature, and its theme, incest, can be traced in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Lot’s scheme to repopulate a supposedly desolate earth by sleeping with his daughters. The subject has been probed by Sophocles, and Freud defined the […]
09/11/2024
It has been said that every person has some dark passion within his soul, some hidden secret desire that may never surface to be seen by even the closest confidante. Such a secret can be evil or sinister, or it may be trivial and trite. In America, such dark passions are easily submerged by the […]
09/11/2024
Psychologists have long noted that man is a gregarious animal whose need for approval and affection is as real and basic as his need for food and shelter. This social need is reflected many times over in our everyday lives. There is the teenaged boy who frequently smokes marijuana, though he dislikes it, because he […]
09/11/2024
Who can judge a person’s reactions during stress situations? The prisoner of war who gives in to his captors’ demands, the kidnapped heiress who joins forces with her abductors — both must act without past experience to guide them. The end result can be either a very negative or a positive experience. In WAYLAID MAID, […]
09/11/2024
It is hard to conceive in this day and age, and especially in our Western society, that individual human beings could be and are now being treated like mere chattel and worse. Yet there are examples to be found all around us. Migrant workers have long labored for a pittance, and are beaten or thrown […]
09/11/2024
The subject of victim psychology has become an area of great interest in recent years, due mostly, perhaps, to the widely publicized “conversion” of Patricia Hearst to the radical SLA. Why a victim will turn and become a party to his or her own abduction is a question open to hot debate. The young girls […]