Word: sexualism
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...anything he is touching, into invisibility and back again. This gift enables him to learn more than he wants to know about other people's private lives, but it cannot save him from messing up his own. He soon finds himself fired from his job and passively succumbing to sexual entanglements with a dopey ex-colleague and a predatory cocktail harpist who lives in a neighboring apartment...
...cities from Miami Beach to Hamilton Township, N.J., have begun imposing restrictions that barely leave sex offenders any place to live. On Sept. 1 Iowa is enforcing one of the toughest statewide bans in the country by barring anyone convicted of a sexual crime against a minor from living within 2,000 ft. of a school or day-care center. That comes just two months after another Iowa bill, which requires DNA samples from all sex offenders and mandates life in prison for anyone convicted of a second sexual offense against a minor. "The public wants this," says Iowa attorney...
...these people and making it next to impossible for them to find a job or have educational opportunities or otherwise forge necessary social ties, what do we expect is going to happen with them?" asks Bruce Winick, a University of Miami law and psychiatry professor. "If we banish the sexual offender to a subterranean existence, pretty soon he starts getting back that criminal urge...
...offender in Mason City, Iowa, who lives within sight of a day-care center and asked not to be named in this story, told TIME he plans to move to Nebraska or South Dakota to escape Iowa's pending residency restrictions. Convicted at 19 for having nonforcible sexual relations with a 14-year-old, he served two years in prison before his release in June 2004. "What really bothers me is that years from now, I'll still have to worry about something I did at age 19," says the offender, who is now 23. "This is like using...
...from living near any bus stop. "All of a sudden they are telling me where I can live and where I can't live. They are trying to take everything away from me," says Elwell, a former teacher who served one year in prison after pleading guilty to the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl seven years ago. Now married with two kids, he owns a pizza shop in Cape...