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I was talked into seeing the movie 'Halloween' last night. No one can convince me that that level of violence doesn't have an affect on some percentage of the population. A very attractive naked woman being stabbed to death must, at some level blur the line between sex and cruelty. The movie in my local theater is selling out 10 shows a day. It is chilling to think that among those people are some who are aroused by some scenes. But, I suppose that has always been the staple of slasher movies - attractive, scantily clad women being murdered in horrible ways. Although only a small percentage of men act on it, it bet there are many more for who violence has entered their fantasies.
I was talked into seeing the movie 'Halloween' last night. No one can convince me that that level of violence doesn't have an affect on some percentage of the population. A very attractive naked woman being stabbed to death must, at some level blur the line between sex and cruelty. The movie in my local theater is selling out 10 shows a day. It is chilling to think that among those people are some who are aroused by some scenes. But, I suppose that has always been the staple of slasher movies - attractive, scantily clad women being murdered in horrible ways. Although only a small percentage of men act on it, it bet there are many more for who violence has entered their fantasies.
I think those men would act out violently, with or without seeing those films.
I think those men would act out violently, with or without seeing those films.
With the number of men partaking of the deviancy on the Internet, if they all acted on their natures, it would be a Caligula's Rome again. Many experts have speculated that viewing violence is enough to help some men bridge the gap between fantasy and acting out. I wonder what Bundy's book shelf looked like.
30-40 years have passed since the cases surfaced, but I believe that Bundy's crimes are, to some degree, confused in the public mind with those of Jeffrey Dahmer:
Dahmer was a necrophile and cannibal, but all 17 of his victims were male. Like Bundy, his personality could hardly be described as normal, but he was ruled competent to stand trial and convicted, and while Wisconsin has not had a death penalty for over 150 years, Dahmer was introduced into the general population of Columbia State Prison at Portage, and beaten to death and beyond recognition by another inmate shortly thereafter.
There's no more reason to confuse Bundy and Dahmer than there is to confuse either one of them with any other killer(s).
As always, people are either informed--or they're not.
I was talked into seeing the movie 'Halloween' last night. No one can convince me that that level of violence doesn't have an affect on some percentage of the population. A very attractive naked woman being stabbed to death must, at some level blur the line between sex and cruelty. The movie in my local theater is selling out 10 shows a day. It is chilling to think that among those people are some who are aroused by some scenes. But, I suppose that has always been the staple of slasher movies - attractive, scantily clad women being murdered in horrible ways. Although only a small percentage of men act on it, it bet there are many more for who violence has entered their fantasies.
That wouldn't explain why so many of them start with torturing animals when they are children.
I also think Bundy was just telling people what they wanted to hear when he blamed his crimes on porn. Just more BS and manipulation on his part, game playing.
That wouldn't explain why so many of them start with torturing animals when they are children.
I also think Bundy was just telling people what they wanted to hear when he blamed his crimes on porn. Just more BS and manipulation on his part, game playing.
That's exactly how I felt too, when I read that Bundy claimed porn caused him to commit his crimes.
H. H. Holmes was a pretty prolific serial killer who might have had Bundy beat back in the 19th century (his story is told in Erik Larson's book Devil in the White City.) He had a lovely setup in his basement with a furnace for body disposal.
Re the keeping of heads, I think someone is mixing Bundy up with Ed Gein. I've read a lot on Bundy, and he seemed to have just dumped bodies in the woods. And the term "serial killer" was coined in the 1970s, although the term "serial murders" was used previously. Bundy probably made it part of the common lexicon, though,
That wouldn't explain why so many of them start with torturing animals when they are children.
I also think Bundy was just telling people what they wanted to hear when he blamed his crimes on porn. Just more BS and manipulation on his part, game playing.
Agree, believe Bundy spoke a lot untruths towards the end; just for the sick game of it all.
That seems strange. Ted Bundy was a former law student and he had to realize that the Sheriff couldn't change his sentence. Perhaps he was just desperate. I read that he did not want to receive the death penalty and didn't feel ready to die.
Yea desperation would be my guess.
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