Relativity of Deviance by Curra John

Author:Curra, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2019-10-23T19:30:59.487514+00:00

3. The Ripper was a sexually sadistic killer. If these murders were, in fact, sexually motivated, they were unusual. Not a lot of evidence of sexual mutilation existed in the 1888 murders, as most of the damage was done to the throat, abdomen, and internal organs. C. Wilson’s (1988) proof for his claim that Jack the Ripper inaugurated the age of sex crime is no proof at all. The only objective indicator he offers for classifying the killings the way he does is that “nightmarish mutilations” of their genital areas were inflicted upon the victims (p. 2). Just because the killer stabbed women in body parts that can be used for reproduction does not mean he was a sex criminal any more than the claim that because he stabbed victims in their abdomens, he had a sexual attraction to stomachs (called alvinolagnia). The victim who comes closest to having been assaulted by a sexually sadistic killer is Emma Smith. She was attacked on April 3 with a blunt object that was inserted into her vaginal vault, and she died a day later in London Hospital (on Whitechapel Road). She has been discounted, however, as a Ripper victim (her murder eventually being blamed on a marauding gang).

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