Reason: Penis Measurements Cannot Justify a Sex Offender’s Indefinite Detention, South Carolina’s Top Court Says
The South Carolina Supreme Court elaborated on those problems in its opinion, which was written by Chief Justice John Kittredge and joined by the court’s four other members. Although PPG has been used for decades, Kittredge noted, there remains a “significant schism in the scientific community” regarding whether it works as advertised.
“Some experts have focused on the high rate…of false positives and false negatives associated with men’s ability to willfully suppress or display arousal,” Kittredge wrote. “Other experts have noted there can be significant differences between the results of an offender’s initial PPG and a subsequent retest administered several months later. The disparities may be explained, at least in part, by the PPG’s inability to account for a host of variables that affect erectile responses.” Those variables include “the recency of an offender’s last orgasm,” “his level of intoxication or fatigue,” “his cardiovascular health,” “his current medications,” his age, his intelligence, the gender of the person administering the test, and the time of year when the test is conducted.
“The scientific community appears polarized as to whether to recognize the PPG as a diagnostic tool for assessing sexual deviancy,” Kittredge wrote. “While some experts have found the PPG inherently unreliable—based, in part, on the lack of standardization and high error rate (upwards of twenty percent)—others have concluded the opposite and found the PPG to be an accurate and reliable diagnostic tool.” But “even the experts who believe the PPG to be a valuable tool in pre-commitment evaluations acknowledge the test is not standardized.”
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Just because someone with a degree at a University says it’s a good thing doesn’t make it true. We’ve all seen what our grand Universities are turning out. If someone has a particular bias already determined their studies will lean towards that bias. I’m seeing this more and more with studies meant to convince and scare the public that those forced to register are irredeemable and should be subjected to ongoing ostracism.
Cookie, I don’t think any of us on this forum are aware of any study concluding “that those forced to register are irredeemable and should be subjected to ongoing ostracism.” Where are you seeing this?
Which studies are you referring to? Please share them so we can refute their findings. The studies we rely on in our advocacy and in litigation are peer-reviewed. If you’re seeing this more and more, you need to share these with FAC immediately.
Had to do a costly psychosexual evaluation in Florida which is a comprehensive assessment that reviews an individual’s psychological, biological, and social history to determine their mental health status and construct an actionable treatment plan. Even therapist said to judge normal adult citizen for my age but didn’t help
Penile plethysmography (ppg) is a diagnostic test used to measure changes in blood volume in the penis, typically in response to sexual arousal. It assesses erectile function and is often utilized in research contexts, especially in studies of sexual behavior and arousal patterns.
Problems occur when sick twisted maniacal masochists are placed in positions of authori-tie and bye and bye abuse that authori-tie.
Im happy that my case was ajudicated in the 9th and these barbaric witch hunts are not allowed.
Are you freaking kidding me??!!
I think this the is the #1 weirdest posts I have ever seen on F.A.C. (No not bashing FAC).
Folks, we just cannot make this stuff up. Even though none of us were alive then, remember the stories where they burned witches at the stake? If they lived, they were confirmed a witch, if you died, they were wrong and they were not a witch. But how many were found to be a witch? Probably none because they all died from the burning. (I assume they all died; I wasn’t there that day)
How is this related to the posted story? Well, a witch hunt is a witch hunt no matter how you slice the salami, (Pun intended) But nothing is funny about someone staying in prison longer or having to stay on the registry because their manhood makes them a threat. We did our time, and yet we are still doing time well past our release.
These “scientific” findings sound like a modern version of Mengele’s experiments with no findings based in fact. Just pretexts for keeping people they don’t like confined.