TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 5月11日 02時15分

Kevin, 68, traumatized hundreds of women. For 45 years, he was a compulsive exhibitionist, often in movie theaters. He fantasized that the women were aroused by his behavior, though he now says, "They never actually were." He did this nearly every day, sometimes multiple times a day. Kevin—a pseudonym given to him by TIME for this story—spent time in jail and psychiatric treatment centers but never went to prison. He managed to hold down a job as a clerk at a home-improvement store. Eventually, he stopped exposing himself, but not because of therapy. “I got older, my sex drive got lower. I got on a drug that basically is designed, if you take in high doses, to reduce your testosterone level and reduce your sex drive,” he says. “I’m not sure that just therapy would have been able to break the cycle.” Whether you believe that therapy can redeem someone like Kevin may depend on whether you believe people can learn empathy. Researchers at the University of Cambridge published a study in March that suggests subjects’ ability to empathize with others had little to do with their genetic makeup and more to do with how they were raised. Empathetic people are made, not born. Kevin says the sessions have helped him understand the motivation for his behavior. He now believes that he exposed himself in the hopes of making a human connection, however irrational that may sound. “When I would do it, it was like I was in a trance. I’m just absorbed in what I’m doing, trying to get a positive response, which I very seldom got,” he says. “It took me a long time to figure out that women don’t want to see that. They find it disgusting.” Read the full cover story inside sex offender therapy on TIME.com. Photograph by @mikebelleme for TIME

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