Fatal Addiction: Ted Bundy's Last Interview

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
[url="http://www.pureintimacy.org/gr/intimacy/understanding/a0000082.cfm"]Warning: May be disturbing[/url]
[quote]Ted Bundy, an infamous serial killer, granted an interview to psychologist James Dobson just before he was executed on January 24, 1989. In that interview, he described the agony of his addiction to pornography. Bundy goes back to his roots, explaining the development of his compulsive behavior. He reveals his addiction to hard-core pornography and how it fueled the terrible crimes he committed.[/quote]

[Didacus]

Thank you for posting.

One does not have to reach any where near the extremes of Ted Bundy in order to feel the detrimental effects of porn. It is wihtout a doubt one of the worse malaises of our society today. It fuels absolutely nothing good.

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
what i also found interesting was that he talked about violence on tv and movies as a kind of pornography. made me think about the shows that i watch that show violence being done.

[Snowflake3981]

The sad thing about many people is that they don't think there is anything wrong with porn, or they show no remorse.

Recently I was in the market for an external hard drive, and I asked someone I know for a recommendation on one to purchase because he had one, and asked them what size there's was. He told me his was a terabyte (that's 1,000 GB!). I was like, what do you need that much space for?? And he's like, oh, that's all my porn. He signed up for something like Netflix only its gay porn, and every week he gets three new ones and then he copies them all onto his external hard drive.

I pray for him all the time.

[Didacus]

As soon as you mix any form of attractiveness with violence it becomes something other. You don't need to have naked bodies being hacked to pieces to have this affect.

Even if no graphic images are readily present in the show, the suggestive nature of it is sufficient to fuel the imgaination and have detrimental effects.

[Didacus]

[quote name='Snowflake3981' post='1739652' date='Dec 31 2008, 02:19 PM']The sad thing about many people is that they don't think there is anything wrong with porn, or they show no remorse.

Recently I was in the market for an external hard drive, and I asked someone I know for a recommendation on one to purchase because he had one, and asked them what size there's was. He told me his was a terabyte (that's 1,000 GB!). I was like, what do you need that much space for?? And he's like, oh, that's all my porn. He signed up for something like Netflix only its gay porn, and every week he gets three new ones and then he copies them all onto his external hard drive.

I pray for him all the time. [/quote]

Permissiveness is one of the key torts of pornography.

People I believe confuse the perfectly nature instinct of sexial inclination as an equivalent to watching porn. However, having the inclination and fueling it are two very different things.

(I personally juggle about 500 gigs of memory, but a lot of those are CAD drawings, wor files, games and various documents like pdf books and stuff. - absolutely no porn)

[HisChildForever]

If you glance through the interview, you will see that he answered the questions with remarkable calm and reason. When questioned about his emotional reaction after his first murder, one of the things he said was "To wake up in the morning and realize what I had done with a clear mind, with all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact, absolutely horrified me."

But we are forgetting something:

Ted Bundy suffered from antisocial personality disorder. Commonly called "sociopaths" or "psychopaths" these individuals are manipulative, pathological liars, lack empathy, have superficial charm (re: Bundy was a "charming" intelligent law student), they are impulsive, they exhibit promiscuous sexual behavior (re: Bundy's addiction to pornography), etc.

Sociopaths will always, always pass a lie detector test.

I would like to point out that Bundy's "feelings" in this interview are not real. I would also like to add that his addiction to pornography did not turn him into a serial killer; his addiction to pornography stemmed from his mental disorder. This was clearly not your "routine" pornography addiction, either - it was incredibly sadistic.

So, in this interview, Ted Bundy said (I repeat):
[b]"To wake up in the morning and realize what I had done with a clear mind, with all my essential moral and ethical feelings intact, absolutely horrified me."[/b]
But what has he also said?
[b]"I'm the most cold-blooded [censored] you'll ever meet," said Ted Bundy. "I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill."[/b]
[url="http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/tick/psych_6.html"]http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_...ck/psych_6.html[/url]

Source: My research paper and presentation for my Personality Concepts class last semester.

I will throw out this link:
[url="http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html"]http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html[/url]

Edited December 31, 2008 by HisChildForever

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Snowflake3981' post='1739652' date='Dec 31 2008, 11:19 AM']The sad thing about many people is that they don't think there is anything wrong with porn, or they show no remorse.

Recently I was in the market for an external hard drive, and I asked someone I know for a recommendation on one to purchase because he had one, and asked them what size there's was. He told me his was a terabyte (that's 1,000 GB!). I was like, what do you need that much space for?? And he's like, oh, that's all my porn. He signed up for something like Netflix only its gay porn, and every week he gets three new ones and then he copies them all onto his external hard drive.

I pray for him all the time. [/quote]
+J.M.J.+
oh my goodness! i will pray for him too! you know who i just found out about that might help? The Ugandan martyrs - they died rather than loose their convictions of their faith about homosexuality.

[Era Might]

[quote name='HisChildForever' post='1739684' date='Dec 31 2008, 01:39 PM']I would like to point out that Bundy's "feelings" in this interview are not real. I would also like to add that his addiction to pornography did not turn him into a serial killer; his addiction to pornography stemmed from his mental disorder. This was clearly not your "routine" pornography addiction, either - it was incredibly sadistic.[/quote]
I don't know whether Bundy is sincere or not in this interview. But the experience of downward spiral and feelings of violence is something that many pornography addicts go through. Alessandro Serenelli, the man who attacked St. Maria Goretti, wrote in his final testament:

[quote]Looking back at my past, I can see that in my early youth, I chose a bad path which led me to ruin myself.

My behavior was influenced by print, mass-media and bad examples which are followed by the majority of young people without even thinking. And I did the same. I was not worried.[/quote]
Pornography is by its nature dehumanizing. That is why it is connected with violence. When you don't see the other person as a person, it is easier to attack them violently. Pornography teaches not only to dehumanize the other person, but to use them for personal desires (which is why it can lead to rape).

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='Era Might' post='1739707' date='Dec 31 2008, 02:03 PM']I don't know whether Bundy is sincere or not in this interview. But the experience of downward spiral and feelings of violence is something that many pornography addicts echo. Alessandro Serenelli, the man who attacked St. Maria Goretti, wrote in his final testament:


Pornography is by its nature dehumanizing. That is why it is connected with violence. When you don't see the other person as a person, it is easier to attack them violently. Pornography teaches not only to dehumanize the other person, but to use them for personal desires (which is why it leads to rape).[/quote]

One of the signs/symptoms of antisocial personality disorder is promiscuous behavior. This can show itself through casual sex, pornography, masturbation, etc. I am not downplaying the horrors of pornography but saying that in this specific case, pornography did not fuel Ted Bundy but rather was a result of his mental disorder.

I had to stop reading the interview right before I got to the end because I was just blown away by it. Absolutely blown away. It is mind-numbing to see how a real sociopath functions.

[Era Might]

You may be right about Bundy. But I think regardless of whether he is sincere or not, many pornography addicts would relate to the experience he describes in the interview, even if they aren't serial killers.

[CatherineM]

When I was in law school, one of my classmates corresponded with Bundy. He apparently wrote letters to law students all over the country. Some of the things he said in his letters were really disturbing, and very much in line with what Dobson described.

Fr. Ron Rolheiser has a wonderful discussion of the damage that can happen to us with exposing ourselves to this kind of thing in his book, "the Holy Longing."

[Snowflake3981]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1739749' date='Dec 31 2008, 02:27 PM']When I was in law school, one of my classmates corresponded with Bundy. He apparently wrote letters to law students all over the country. Some of the things he said in his letters were really disturbing, and very much in line with what Dobson described.

Fr. Ron Rolheiser has a wonderful discussion of the damage that can happen to us with exposing ourselves to this kind of thing in his book, "the Holy Longing."[/quote]

I've heard about many famous prisoners responding to letters that they get from all types of people. I suppose if you're in prison, there's not much to do. Might as well answer those letters. And tsociopaths just eat that stuff up, I'm sure they think of it as fan mail.

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='Era Might' post='1739724' date='Dec 31 2008, 02:12 PM']You may be right about Bundy. But I think regardless of whether he is sincere or not, many pornography addicts would relate to the experience he describes in the interview, even if they aren't serial killers.[/quote]

Right on!

Pornography addicts are certainly not serial killers (and if an individual happens to be both, there is a mental illness behind it). And I agree that plenty of pornography addicts [i]can[/i] relate to the interview when he discusses how pornography changes your perspective. However, at the same time, I will firmly state that the interview is a fake interview. Not fake as in "fabricated" but fake as in "Bundy is a terrific actor."

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Snowflake3981' post='1739759' date='Dec 31 2008, 01:32 PM']I've heard about many famous prisoners responding to letters that they get from all types of people. I suppose if you're in prison, there's not much to do. Might as well answer those letters. And tsociopaths just eat that stuff up, I'm sure they think of it as fan mail.[/quote]

When I worked with death row inmates, I was shocked to find that almost all of them had hordes of women writing to them, and purposing marriage. I guess the women find unavailable men safe or something. Bundy even had a child while in jail.