Sexuality, Rape, Personality. A Scientific Contribution. A Summary of Psychology and Criminology in Sexual Fantasies

About author | 5

Introduction | 25

Part 1
Chapter 1. The phantasy, the forerunner of understanding normal and psychopathological sexuality | 29

Chapter 2. Sexuality, (still) a taboo subject in Romanian’s evidence-based scientific psychology | 31

Chapter 3. Rape. Sexual crime versus non-sexual crime, sexual perversion | 33

Part 2
Study 1 – Developing a psychological instrument meant to highlight the sexual patterns in normal population, and  penitentiary  population  in Romania, to investigate the dynamics of normal sexual phantasies, deviant / paraphilic sexual phantasies and identify phantasmic patterns with normal / deviant content, named Sexual Phantasies Assessment Questionnaire (CEFS) | 37

Methodology | 38

Procedure | 38

Variables | 38

Sample | 38

Conclusions | 40

Study 2 – The relationship between sexual deviant phantasies / fantasies in paraphilic disorders from DSM-5, performing them as they   are   identified from applying the Sexual Phantasies Assessment Questionnaire and Rape Metaphor Test, Rape Signs Test, Sexual Preferences Assessment Questionnaire in penitentiaries for individuals who have committed rape, and identifying the recurrent sexual themes in patterns with deviant / paraphilic phantasmic content specific to rape. Descriptive and qualitative analysis | 45

Methodology | 46

Procedure | 46

Variables | 46

Sample | 47

Objectives | 47

Hypotheses | 47

Instruments | 49

Descriptive analyses | 49

Conclusions | 49

Study 3 – The study aims to identify patterns at the level of sexual phantasmic typologies  correlated with a certain personality structure, and with the mode  of  production  (“execution”)  of  rape.  More exactly, we aim to identify what kind of sexual phantasmic pattern is found in a certain way of committing rape and to  what  extent  does  the sexual phantasmic pattern, deviant or non-deviant, correlates with the individual’s personality traits | 50

Methodology | 50

Procedure | 50

Variables | 51

Sample | 51

Objectives | 52

Hypotheses | 53

Instruments | 53

Conclusions | 54

Final conclusions | 58

Acknowledgements | 62

References (selective) | 64

The paper is a compilation of lines and ideas found in the manuscript of the doctoral dissertation Methodological contributions of a psychological and criminological nature to the study of ghosts in the crime of rape, held in 2020 at the University of Bucharest, Doctoral School of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. lays the scientific foundations of the study of sexuality in Romania, through sexual fantasies. This includes in the first part the introduction, the enunciation of the issue and the motivation for choosing the topic, objective and subjective.
The paper continues with two parts, Part 1 - Theoretical substantiation and Part 2 - Scientific explorations.
The paper is intended mainly, but not exclusively, for psychologists from security, public order and national defense structures and those specialized in sexology, psychotherapists from the judicial and / or non-judicial space, psychiatrists who perform forensic expertise in the sexual crime of rape. , the body of magistrates, law students, Psychology, Sociology, Medicine, as well as those interested in the phenomenon of normal and deviant / paraphilic / psychopathological sexuality.