'Pervert, Sadist, Voyeur and Necrophile': Pathological Sexual Desire in the Case of the 'Dragon of Sheikh Sou', 1959–1963
| Autor: | Kritsotaki, Despo, Zestanakis, Panagiotis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Zdroj: | The Historical Review/La Revue Historique; Τόμ. 18 Αρ. 1 (2021): Historical Review / La Revue Historique; 43-66 The Historical Review/La Revue Historique; Vol. 18 No. 1 (2021): Historical Review / La Revue Historique; 43-66 |
| ISSN: | 1790-3572 1791-7603 |
| Popis: | This article analyses the case of the “Dragon of Sheikh Sou”, the allegedperpetrator of four crimes committed in 1959 and 1963 in Thessaloniki, which terrifiedand fascinated the public, as a case study for the construction of “perverted” sexuality inGreece during this period. Combining journalistic and medical (forensic and psychiatric)accounts, it argues that sexual violence was turned into a central dimension of thesecrimes, as, within the sociocultural transformations of the time (mainly urbanisationand new gender roles), anxieties about sexuality intensified. The article concludes thatin late-1950s and early-1960s Greece, “perverted” sexual desires remained more closelyconnected to vice than illness, and were understood as a male psychiatric pathology onlyto the degree that they could contribute to the normalisation of a supposedly “moderate”male sexual violence, but not to the extent that they required psychiatric treatment. |
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