Just watched this amazing programme on Channel 4 all about exhibitionists and flashers.
Cant say I'd ever given a single moment's thought to what makes these people do it. I can comfortably say I'd never imagined what goes through their heads.
For this reason alone, the show was rivetting from the moment I turned over. We had the posh old bloke who'd actually got laid right there in the park, the Australian family man who ran a website (I'll link to it when I've found it!) for flashers, and most disturbingly and unbelievably the american teenager who'd been caught flashing, convicted and sentenced to intensive therapy for what they consistently refered to his "Deviant sexual behaviour".
This therapy consisted of showing this poor lad a sequence of horriffic pictures - diseased genitals, suppurating pores, stuff like that, whilst sniffing a bottle of eau-de-corpse, whilst listening to a self-recorded tape of his flashing fantasies.
I'll admit, I didn't watch it and haven't read it, but while I was at work, Charlie watched Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" when it was on TV a few months ago and she reliably informs me this is exactly the type of therapy used on Malcolm McDowell's character in order to make him less violent.
I simply couldn't believe any society could condone the blatant, disgusting, unbelievable mind-control brainwashing I was watching. And it got worse, the guy was then shown into a room full of rapists and paedophiles to discuss his thoughts and feelings with them - and they called this therapy!!
And it got worse! He has to pay PAY for this to happen to him! The man's paying to be brainwashed and demeaned in the worst way possible. And what for? For sitting in his car and waving his dick at people!
I'm in shock! With all the atrocities in the world, splashed all over our tabloids and news reports, this is easily the most shocking thing I've seen in weeks!
Deep breath, let's put the radio on, dear...
