Originally Posted by americanwriter

Or you could have him flash a witch in the park, she turns him to stone, and he's then a statue that has to listen to other people's remarks for the next decade before the spell breaks, and people come by and hang their coats on his "you-know-what," and maybe their purses too. How would he feel about that? And then there's the issues of pidgeons. What about pidgeons?

Yeah, I know. Too much Pepsi today. Perhaps I should rest.

Originally Posted by americanwriter

Or you could have him flash a witch in the park, she turns him to stone, and he's then a statue that has to listen to other people's remarks for the next decade before the spell breaks, and people come by and hang their coats on his "you-know-what," and maybe their purses too.

Originally Posted by NoWorries

Disagree completely. Addiction is just the necessity of body or mind to do something again. Like you said, Drugs is the foremost medium associated with drugs, but you can be addicted to anything, and not all addiction is detrimental to a persons mental or physical health. I find it quite believable that the word, addicted, was chosen to describe his public indecency.



That's hard to say, sometimes problems work themselves on their own, such as this BiPolar Disorder you speak of, very few adults have it, but the occurence in teens is quite high. Sometimes all it takes is the will to understand what is wrong with your brain's chemical processes to begin to correct them. This enlightenment could be from simply wanting to be intimate with this girl, but knowing that his current actions are degenerative to a relationship.



For what it's worth, BiPolar disorder is not an effect of some other traumatic event. You may have yourself confused with multiple personality syndrome, but I don't think so. BiPolar disorder is a physical imbalance of the brain, while exhibitionism is almost always psychologically routed. Anyways, it may do the story well to delve into his past and find out if his mother abused him and that's why he feels the need to express his sexuality in non-healthy ways, but I don't think that's important for this story, what we want to see is him come to terms with his social deviance and attempt to correct it for selfish reasons(ie the girl or making himself happier in the future.)

In the future, please abstain from applying your Psych 101 logic to paraphilia.

LiberalDem, getting back to the flashing as a Sexual Agression, exhibitionists are surprisingly non-violent. Where their actions are most dangerous is in the age of children that they choose to expose themselves to, and the resulting trauma that may ensue. Oddly the best thing to do if confronted by a flasher is to ignore them, and the worst thing to do is laugh or express ridicule. Studies show that men convicted of Exhibitionism are more likely to commit non-sexual crimes than sexual ones, only 10-12% will escalate their behaviors to worser sex-crimes. For the most part, it is an outlet for antisocial behavior with no intent to harm the other party involved.