An Intimate Life
“His pathology was much more profound and infinitely more disturbing than that of any other client. Bradley had recently been released from prison. He had served a five-year sentence for molesting a seven-year-old girl. Before I agreed to see him, I had a long discussion with Pamela about what our work would entail. Pamela was working in conjunction with a colleague who specialized in treating pedophilia. They were testing the notion that they could, with the help of surrogacy and other treatmen...t, redirect the sexual urges of men like Bradley to adult women. Bradley was not the first client with whom they had tried this approach. There were a few others and there had been encouraging signs with some of them. Pamela hoped these cases would lay the groundwork for a breakthrough treatment that would ultimately serve to make children safer.It was not easy to make the choice to work with Bradley. I admired Pamela’s efforts to rehabilitate someone who had served his sentence and was reentering society, changed or not.MoreLess
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