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: 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.