Revenge Killer Traumatized by Porn as Child
May 29, 2014
Elliot Rodger wrote that he
was "traumatized"
by exposure to internet porn
as an-11-year old.
We'll hear lots about gun control and mental health, but we won't hear about the impact
of a culture that values sexual fulfillment over almost anything else.
Elliot Rodger and the Santa Barbara Killings
Observations from a Christian Psychiatrist...
(edited/abridged by henrymakow.com)
I haven't heard anyone comment about the impact of [porn] on vulnerable young people, or the trend in culture to make sexual orientation/activity the defining feature of one's identity.
I'm a child psychiatrist...this kid's "manifesto" and videos are a treasure trove for guys who study the thinking of those who kill. Reading through his "manifesto," it's pretty clear that the cause of his sexual obsession was exposure to pornography through an online chat room and a center for video gamers. I'm seeing more kids for whom this is becoming a problem... especially kids who tend to ruminate or obsess on distressing thoughts.
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I'd suggest that Elliot was traumatized by his initial exposure to sexual images over the Internet. From his manifesto...
Towards the end of sixth grade, I still hadn't made a group of friends who I could see outside of school. ... Joining chatrooms through AOL temporarily filled in the social void for a few weeks. This will definitely not be the first time I would try to fill in that void with the internet...
One friend who I met through a chat room suddenly emailed me pictures of beautiful naked girls, telling me to "check this out". When I looked at the pictures, I was shocked beyond words. I had never seen what beautiful girls looked like naked, and the sight filled me with strong and overwhelming emotions. I didn't know what was happening to me. Was it the first inkling of sexual desire in my body? I was traumatized. My childhood was fading away. Ominous fear swept over me, and I stopped talking to that person.
As the Sixth Grade year came to a close, I felt dissatisfied and insignificant. Indeed, a whole new world had opened up before me, and I had no idea how to prevail in it. I still wanted to live as a child.
Later, he describes another experience in the eighth grade at a place where people gathered to play video games...
One time while I was alone at Planet Cyber, I saw an older teenager watching pornography. I saw in detail a video of a man having sex with a hot girl. The video showed...(deleted). I didn't know anything about sex at the time. I barely even knew what sex was. I was slowly starting to develop sexual feelings for hot girls, but I didn't know what to do with them. To see this video really traumatized me. I had no idea what I was seeing... I couldn't imagine human beings doing such things with each other. The sight was shocking, traumatizing, and arousing. All of these feelings mixed together took a great toll on me. I walked home and cried by myself for a bit. I felt too guilty about what I saw to talk to my parents about it. I was quite shaken for a few days.
This was among the very first glimpses I had of sex. Finding out about sex is one of the things that truly destroyed my entire life. Sex... the very word fills me with hate. Once I hit puberty, I would always want it, like any other boy. I would always hunger for it, I would always covet it, I would always fantasize about it. But I would never get it. Not getting any sex is what will shape the very foundation of my miserable youth. This was a very dark day.
We know that vulnerable kids experience enormous harm from harsh words and bullying, and our schools and institutions have appropriately taken steps to protect them.
But what about protecting vulnerable kids from the impact of the highly sexualized culture in which we live? I've treated a number of kids in recent years who exhibit the effects of trauma resulting from exposure to sexual material or situations fairly common to daily life.
Elliot's identity was defined by his inability to engage in behavior that is idolized in our culture. Unfortunately, it's highly likely we'll be seeing more incidents like this as kids at risk become saturated with images disseminated through Snapchat or "sexted" by peers.
We'll hear lots of discussion in the coming weeks about the need for gun control and better mental health preventive services, but I bet we won't hear about limiting the impact of a culture upon vulnerable youth that values sexual fulfillment over almost anything else.
We have a responsibility to our vulnerable young people to expose and include them in an alternate culture...a culture that values them for the fullness of who they were created to be and provides them the opportunity to be part of a larger story...a story of grace and redemption!
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First Comment by Anon
I wouldn't go overboard on analyzing Elliot Rodger's alleged motives, since there are multiple reports of two people in the car, no history of violence, etc. Sandy Hook and Boston Marathon were definitely hoaxes. the Aurora theater shooting may have been as well. Crisis actors are now the apparent new alternative to creating the desired political effect without too much bloodshed, except for the patsies like Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
http://investmentwatchblog.com/isla-vista-crisis-actors-exposed-is-my-director-talking/
From Dan:
This article is the most rational analysis of one of these shooting events I've seen in many years. Thanks for posting it. The 'mainstream' media won't.
What's more disturbing than Elliot is seeing that not only has the public acquiesced to pornography as a 'normal and harmless' factor in growing up in America - as we see in the comments, some men leap to defend it. Of course they won't cop to being wankers themselves, because there's no other reason anyone would equate criticism of pornography with gun control.
Like they used to say in Army boot camp:
"This is my rifle
and this is my gun,
one is for killing,
the other for fun...."
No boys, the Illuminati does not want to take your porn away.
What surprises me is how quick some men are to so aggressively attack the messenger. The writer isn't presenting a theory that the porn played a central role in the shooter's derangement - just read Elliot's 140 page "manifesto". Elliot said he was traumatized by porn he was shown at eleven year old.
Few men would say they were traumatized by the first porn they saw, but we don't know what Elliot was shown. May have been beastiality or snuff. NO question he associated sex with power and murder.
Most young adults who grew up with soft porn TV movies and finding internet porn didn't have a 'bad experience', but their brain physiology was changed nevertheless. Boys who are men today became hooked on daily masturbation, and sexual fantasies about little girls you knew at school, teachers, celebrities, women at work, women in general -- and that's just the heterosexuals.
As for the comment that porn didn't accelerate Elliot's urge to kill, because snuff porn doesn't make you a killer, listen to what serial killer Ted Bundy said about it. Bundy admitted that the killer potential was already in him, but porn fueled it over the top. He also said that of all the violent offenders and killers he'd met during ten years on Death Row, every one of them was first addicted to porn.
1989: Ted Bundy's last interview the night before his electrocution in Florida prison.
Laura said (May 30, 2014):
This "shooting" in Santa Barbara was a staged and scripted event. Please look at the videos of the cleanup in the deli/quick store. There is a crate of glass in view, indicating that the replacement glass for a broken window was sent well in advance. This is just one in a long line of staged events with scripts for everyone (including the "father" of one of the alleged shooting victims, Chris Martinez) who ranted the next day about people getting riled up about guns, get rid of guns, etc. Curse the NRA.
People, it's another in a long line of staged events designed to get more money from taxpayers for more staged events sponsored by DHS, FEMA and involving local law enforcement.
With the Boston Bombing marathon staged event, some people got hurt for real (I have an acquaintance from Boston whose ER nurse friend had to sew people up after that staged event complete with patsies with Russian/Chechen sounding names and military intelligence contractors ("Craft" with devices in their hands), and fake injured people who were already amputees.
I'm a native Californian and these events are becoming routine, but they're happening all over.
Vote these venal liars out of office, and write to your congresspeople.
btw, California IS a testbed of mind control and psychological operations.
These days they can stage really sloppy events, using our tax dollars (!), and most people still believe they're real.
(Note: If they screw up and actually hurt or kill someone, don't overestimate their empathy; they have none! It's considered "collateral damage"!!)
Don't believe this crap, folks. It's designed to manipulate public opinion.