News / Prison rape fantasies are a sign of mental health
Xtra
News / Prison rape fantasies are a sign of mental health
story by Frank Prendergast / Xtra! May 6 1999
Male prison rape fantasies can be a sign of good psychological health.
"One of the theories is that people who are into rape fantasies or domination
and submissive type fantasies are, in fact, switching a psychological fear of
being dominated or hurt or humiliated or whatever and - by sexualizing it -
turning it into something they have control over," says Dr Paul Federoff, a
psychiatrist at the Clarke Institute.
And control may be gained by fantasizing about being dominated or dominating.
For many gay men, jail provides the perfect backdrop for fantasy and erotica.
The pen is all guy, all the time - and much more.
"I think the fantasy of what prisons are like plays into that idea of a sort
of military type of set-up in which there's a lot of rules and regulations.
And there's a lot of control going in the way people behave towards each
other. ........ read the rest of the storey.....
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