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In a maximum security mental health facility in Montreal is a "cave-like" virtual reality vault that's used to show images of child sexual abuse to sex offenders. Patients sit inside the vault with devices placed around their penises to measure signs of arousal as they are shown computer-generated animations of naked children.
"We do develop pornography, but these images and animations are not used for the pleasure of the patient but to assess them," said Patrice Renaud, who heads up the project at the Institut Philippe-Pinel. "It's a bit like using a polygraph but with other measurement techniques."
The system, combined with other psychological assessments, is used to build up a profile of the individual's sexual preferences that can be used by the court to determine the risk they pose to society and by mental health professionals to determine treatment.
[...] The patients sit on a stool inside the chamber wearing stereoscopic glasses which create the three-dimensional effect on the surrounding walls. The glasses are fitted with eye-tracking technology to ensure they aren't trying to trick the system by avoiding looking at the critical content.
Source: The Guardian
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:12PM (9 children)
Maybe they avoid looking at something because they don't want to see it. That may seem like a radical and novel idea.
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:36PM (8 children)
If they don't want to look at it then they probably won't get a hard-on if they're forced to look at it.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday June 08 2017, @06:58PM
That may or may not be true about the hard on. But not wanting to look at it, once you've glanced it, recognized what it is, and refuse to look, is a valid response.
Someone who finds such material appealing may be unable to resist looking at it. That is probably who you are looking for. "I just can't help myself. It's like a magnet. I have to just grab them by the covfefe and kiss them. They'll let you do anything if you're a president."
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:13PM (2 children)
Looking at the images in TFA (sorry), I'd assume most people, pedophile or not, would not be turned on.
There's a market for creepy CGI porn. I'm not sure this kind of research is its sweet spot.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:19PM (1 child)
Looking at the images...
Hey now! Not falling for that one again!!
I'd assume most people, pedophile or not, would not be turned on. There's a market for creepy CGI porn. I'm not sure this kind of research is its sweet spot.
Helps to reduce false-positives?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday June 08 2017, @07:25PM
Very true. You can easily believe you DO have to worry about guys who get excited by that.
Or maybe not, because they're more likely to find a hot dog exciting than a real kid.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Thursday June 08 2017, @08:18PM (2 children)
I have serious issues with forcing them to look at it. Unless these are people convicted of actual sexual assault against non-virtual children that are willingly cooperating with the research, that's akin to torture. We have stories about people that've been destroyed by taking shit jobs with Google/Facebook in the hopes of becoming regular employees, only to leave as husks after seeing the filth of the Internet for 8-10 hours a day.
It's completely fucking ridiculous too. We're testing if somebody can get hard (which means men only) to virtual reality porn. I can't. Hentai is kinda funny to me to watch, but beyond the amusement factor, there is no sexual arousal. So the test only works against people sexually attracted to children, that can also be sexually attracted to a fucking cartoon.
If it has any chance at success, it needs to be real pictures, and that's a problem too. VR isn't there yet. That uncanny valley is simply insufficient at this point to get hard. We'd need holodeck grade pussy for that.
As another posted stated, this is an example of insane people running the asylum.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @08:44PM
You are assuming that your definition and understanding of arousal matches that of the people who would inflict this on you.
They could measure blood flow to your penis and detect any hint of what they want to call arousal. They could show you a hundred regular porn pics and then one scantily clad child. They could train your brain into being attracted to children.
Today it's researchers and CGI. Tomorrow it's CIA with real porn they produced. And you will love it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 08 2017, @09:05PM
What if someone is only sexually attracted to cartoons? I guess your previous conditions (having assaulted real children before) should take care of that. But then there are also child rapists who are not really pedophiles and merely acted opportunistically.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by mojo chan on Friday June 09 2017, @07:26AM
In previous experiments it was found that men who said they found gay sex disgusting actually got aroused a little when seeing it. Turns out that the body is so hard wired for reproduction that even when the conscious mind is not into it, the body will try to get ready anyway.
This sounds like total bunk to me, no better than a polygraph.
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