It ought to be a crime!: Welcome!

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Welcome to Suite101, Dr. Epstein! I hope your stay here is as enjoyable as mine has been.

I love your topic-- I've always been fascinated by crime & it's motivations. Like arson-- why on earth do people set things on fire? Makes no sense to me. One of my favorite books is Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy in which not even the book's narrator tells us if the main character committed a crime or not. The character himself doesn't know. Very intriguing.

OH-- and I wanted to mention homosexuality. I'm in Texas where our penal code still contains a statute against consensual oral sex. It's called the "sodomy" law, but most who've read the statute agree that even heterosexual oral sex would apply. The statute is rarely used of course, but when it is, it changes people's lives forever. There were 2 men in Houston arrested a few years ago for having consensual sex. A jilted lover called the police & reported a burglary in progress. The officers arrived, saw the men in "the act" and took them to jail. It's been in & out of appeals for years now. Fortunately, the individual who made the false report was prosecuted as well.

Well, I've gone off on a tangent. I really like your topic, and your writing is tight and informative. You'll do well here!

Best,
chris

-- posted by cswitwer