Although progress is good and beneficial, and understanding our sexuality is healthy, there is a downside to free and unrestrained expression of our most primal instincts. We, as a people, need the essential primary, secondary, and tertiary restraints, such as religion, family, and societal responsibility, to maintain a moral, civilized, and decent life. Respect for one another is taught through example. It is known as modeling and is nurtured through conditioning and reinforced by behavior. When a society's moral compass is sharp and clear with recognized boundaries of acceptable behavior, mores, and values, then sexual deviance is recognized for its evil.

I would suggest that as a nation we may have raised a generation of psychopaths through a very liberal and irresponsible atmosphere. This atmosphere encourages the types of behavior we have sadly come to accept through a new definition of tolerance. Many deviant behaviors have been "normalized" in recent years, as evidenced in the American Psychiatric Association's revised Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV. Decades of political pressure by advocacy groups and ideologues have left society with the inability to recognize sexual dviance. And, more importantly, society has been desensitized to a point where the unacceptable is now acceptable.

This ultimately contributed to the current situation. We now have an increase in sexual predators and sexual deviance and an increase in serial killers.

Vernon J. Geberth, Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives (CRC Press, 2003, xiv).