Luke Teixeira 's Entries

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  Common Responses

  by Luke Teixeira 05-03-2011
  One of the most common responses that a person who sexually abuses a child makes is to lessen his culpability or lessen the impact or seriousness of what he has done. I have read about this tendency several times but I never thought about it as it might apply to me. But, recently, I have re-read my ...
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  Are Sex Crimes Down? NO!

  by Luke Teixeira 05-02-2011
  "Sex crimes are down from 2008." This is a rallying cry that politicians have used to justify their existence and support of stringent sex-offender laws. However, this is misleading or even untrue. For while a certain class of sex crime is down, Stephen Lightfoot, Executive Director of Justice ...
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  Regarding Porn

  by Luke Teixeira 04-01-2011
  Porn prevents the sexual abuse of children.  I read this "fact" in a recent edition of 'Physhology Today' magazine.  The article even cited two studies that seemed to support this.  The theory was that if a man who is a potential offender views porn and masturbates, then he is less li...
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  by Luke Teixeira 03-27-2011
  It's been several weeks since my last blog. I hit a stump due to an incident in the communal showers. It was not nice. I started to write about it and after rewriting it about 8 times, I decided not to share it with y'all in the blog. As it only shows the difficulty that I face in here and does noth...
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  by Luke Teixeira 03-27-2011
  Most people who sexually assault a child say that it just happened. Even I believed that at first. But, after my studies on the subject, I have come to understand that I did have thoughts about what I was to later do, prior to it happening. This is called "Grooming". What this says is that the s...
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  by Luke Teixeira 03-27-2011
  Ask yourself this, "What would you rather have, 1) a sex offender who was given 20 years sentence and serves all of his time and then is set free and has about a 30% chance of offending again after 3 years; or, 2) a sex offender who is sentenced to 10 years, given ample support and rehabilitative tr...
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  by Luke Teixeira 03-27-2011
  The most common type of sex offense against a child is that of a father molesting his child. Why is this? Does anyone have an idea? Aren't fathers supposed to protect their children? This is what I was taught. I cannot give you any scientific studies about this - only my own experience and thou...
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  by Luke Teixeira 03-27-2011
  I was attending a prison function the other day (Nov. 2010) and was not surprised to learn that 95% of the people who sexually abuse were sexually abused themselves. I kind of figured this but never found any numbers anywhere. How are we to reconcile this? I've been there. I know what it is like...
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  by Luke Teixeira 03-27-2011
  A trigger is a clinical term used by medical and mental health professionals to indicate an event, either biological or behavioral, that predicates or precedes an event. In the case of sexual abuse, triggers are probably always behavioral. In my case, the triggers were pretty obvious now that I kn...
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  by Luke Teixeira 03-27-2011
  Our next topic of discussion is probably, to me, the most important. Education. We (both parents, children, and those who have or might commit these offenses) all need to educate ourselves. Understanding the problem and why someone that you care about might commit one of these offenses, or knowin...