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- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Factors That Underlie Lust Killing
- Part II Biographical Sketches
- Chapter 13 Similarities and Differences
- Chapter 14 A Focus on Males in the Family
- Chapter 15 A Focus on the (Ex-)Wife
- Chapter 16 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 17 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 18 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 19 A Focus on Revenge
- Chapter 20 Just for Being Gay
- Chapter 21 Fetishes and Partialisms
- Chapter 22 Imprinting on Powerful Events
- Chapter 23 Living in Farmyard Squalor
- Chapter 24 Cross-Dressing
- Chapter 25 Attachment-Linked Killers
- Chapter 26 A Desire for Child Victims
- Chapter 27 Stress and Disorganization
- Chapter 28 Problems with Sexual Potency
- Chapter 29 Paired Killers
- Chapter 30 Paired Killers
- Chapter 31 Drugs and Addiction in Focus
- Chapter 32 More Questions than Answers
- Part III Final Word
- References
- Index
Chapter 28 - Problems with Sexual Potency
from Part II - Biographical Sketches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Factors That Underlie Lust Killing
- Part II Biographical Sketches
- Chapter 13 Similarities and Differences
- Chapter 14 A Focus on Males in the Family
- Chapter 15 A Focus on the (Ex-)Wife
- Chapter 16 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 17 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 18 A Focus on the Mother
- Chapter 19 A Focus on Revenge
- Chapter 20 Just for Being Gay
- Chapter 21 Fetishes and Partialisms
- Chapter 22 Imprinting on Powerful Events
- Chapter 23 Living in Farmyard Squalor
- Chapter 24 Cross-Dressing
- Chapter 25 Attachment-Linked Killers
- Chapter 26 A Desire for Child Victims
- Chapter 27 Stress and Disorganization
- Chapter 28 Problems with Sexual Potency
- Chapter 29 Paired Killers
- Chapter 30 Paired Killers
- Chapter 31 Drugs and Addiction in Focus
- Chapter 32 More Questions than Answers
- Part III Final Word
- References
- Index
Summary
Some serial lust killers suffer from erectile dysfunction in the context of a consensual relationship with a living human. In one sample of them, 44 per cent indicated erectile difficulties. It appears that some killers can only secure and maintain an erection, if at all, in the presence of a dead body, as with John Christie, or blood, as with Andrei Chikatilo. More speculatively, Robert Lee Yates Jr. also fits this description. It appears that John Christie was mocked for erectile difficulties. He viewed the body of his grandfather, which possibly had a role in the tragedy. It is possible that being gassed in World War I contributed to his pathological sexuality. Andrei Chikatilo is the most famous serial killer from the USSR. His early life in the Ukraine was associated with a multitude of different stressors. His erectile difficulties might have stemmed in part from bullying and taunting.
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- Understanding Sexual Serial Killing , pp. 375 - 396Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022