Source: tandfonline.com 10/14/25
Abstract
Sexual offender policies, like registration, are highly popular, but generally ineffective. It would be advantageous to decrease support for these policies and increase support for empirically supported ones. Past attempts to reduce support for these policies have resulted in only modest effects. The current studies designed an intervention to more substantially reduce support. In two studies, participants either read a refutation-style text that provided counterevidence to misconceptions about sexual offenders and offenses, or an information only text defining residency restriction laws, registration laws, and treatments for offenders. Results suggested that the counterevidence led to only a modest decrease in residency restriction and registration policy support, increased knowledge of policy outcomes, and increased support for treatment in Study 2.
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They’re “popular” only because of humanity’s propensity for tribalistic hate. America culture is really, really neurotic when it comes to compartmentalizing sexual behavior So we lash out and object to anything deviant.
How many old people view a younger person’s site like Only Fans or Chatubate to see them strip and pleasure themselves while tipping them? Maybe they fear what lurks behind their doors or closets that they lash at those who have been caught.