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What Women Want

By Smith Law Offices,

One of the constant and ongoing challenges of the defense attorney in sex cases is to figure out a rationale explanation for seemingly irrational and otherwise assaultive behavior.  The possible permutations or human sexual desire, regrets and motivations is to put it mildly-complex.  For the attorney dealing with these cases it is important to be able to tap into normally hidden human sexual desires,beliefs or stereotypes within the psyche of the average juror. Consequently I was interested in the research presented in this New York Times article of the same headline as this post.  I insert a block quote showing the objective research in question but the whole article is far ranging and interesting The participants sat in a brown leatherette La-Z-Boy chair in her small lab at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, a prestigious psychiatric teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, where Chivers was a postdoctoral fellow and where I first talked with her about her research a few years ago...continue to full post

Full post as published by SexCrimeDefender on January 24, 2009 (boomark / email).