Canada: Polygraph for pedophiles – how virtual reality is used to assess sex offenders

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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. Full Article

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Nothing new here. This peter-meter was used over 50 years ago here in California.

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Again, we see the word “pedophile” used interchangeably with SO. This is the equivalent of saying all Muslims are terrorists.

What I find most disturbing and outrageous is that they actually think this is a credible science.

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Doesn’t Canada using virtual child porn for any means affect the case they have against the guy that imported a child like sex doll?

On that, they claim anything virtual should count as real porn no matter what. But on this its ok? Contradiction?

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This would be like putting a alcoholic in a room full of booze and say we are just assess you if you like booze. The UK has outlawed Japanese Anime and they are not real people but only cartoon drawings.

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I wonder if the developers have used the device on themselves and if they’d be willing to publish the results?

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Calling someone a “pedophile” is like calling a black man the N word to make him feel bad about himself and what he has done. And to put someone in a polygraph for exploitation is doing nothing good but fuel hypocrisy.

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If this were used on a person, he was eventually released, then commits a crime that the researchers “put in his head”, I would think there would be an excellent case for suing the $$$ out of them!
Or maybe we should take further: use it on everyone …starting in their teen years! Catch “it” early, right? Public at large, here it comes!

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