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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: 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."
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.