Like A Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Episode

Like A Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Episode

From the March 25, 2009 New York Daily News:

The troubled teen charged with stabbing WABC newsman George Weber during drug-fueled rough sex is a 16-year-old Satan-loving sadomasochist with a knife fetish.
John Katehis is also a hustler who stabbed Weber "50 times to the neck" and body, police said.
"He and Weber met online sometime last week and had arranged to meet," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "There was going to be an exchange of money."
Katehis was charged as an adult Wednesday with 2nd degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon - charges that could send the tattooed teen to jail for a long time.
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Katehis admitted stabbing Weber after answering an ad the newsman placed on the Internet looking for rough sex - but claimed self-defense. He was also carrying a dagger that cops do not think was the murder weapon, sources said.
"He saw the victim's ad looking for violent sex and said, 'I can smother somebody for $60,' but it got out of hand," a police source said.
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Cops found Katehis by combing through Weber's e-mail and Web browser history and tracking calls he made from his cell phone, sources said.
Katehis and Weber rendezvoused Friday evening and headed for the newsman's Brooklyn brownstone for sadomasochistic sex, sources said.
Weber, 47, whose ankles were bound with duct tape, was stabbed repeatedly in a frenzied attack that sprayed the walls with blood.
Police found evidence the newsman fought back and wounded his assailant - the killer's blood was found in the bedroom and bathtub drain, the sources said.

Like I said, it's like an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. It's dark. It's grotesque. It's seamy. Except that the writers of Law and Order would be reluctant to admit that homosexuals have a disproportionate tendency towards sadomasochistic sex, and would find some way to weave in a straight sadomasochistic couple as well (along with a Japanese-American burglar, for balance).

I've mentioned in the past the studies that find a correlation between childhood sexual abuse and adult homosexuality, suggesting that at least for some homosexuals, abuse causes or at least predisposes towards adult homosexuality. While there are straight sadomasochists, it is pretty clear that this is disproportionately associated with homosexuality (especially male homosexuality). Can anyone imagine a reason why a person whose first sexual experiences involved a mixture of pain and sexual excitement might have pain and sexual excitement mixed together as an adult?