Who works in forensics, murders, or criminology.

[Aurora Demon]

I’m considering these fields, but I feel like it could kill my sex drive or relationships. Morbid crimes are usually perpetrated on women and children.

Anyone who does work in these fields or a related morbid field, how do you keep it from affecting your:

1. General happiness.
2. Seducing women, maintaining relationships, performing sexually.

 

[Sophisticator]

You get desensitised, but touching / handling corpses is not the same as being intimate with a live person.

It's a bit like: a cow in the meadow is Betsy 3; a cow in the slaughterhouse is beef. Handling / eating beef doesn't make it awkward to care about a living cow in the meadow.

 

[Aurora Demon]

You get desensitised, but touching / handling corpses is not the same as being intimate with a live person.

It's a bit like: a cow in the meadow is Betsy 3; a cow in the slaughterhouse is beef. Handling / eating beef doesn't make it awkward to care about a living cow in the meadow.

What field are you in?

Ive only ever worked with prepped corpses (formaldehyde etc.), no fresh deaths. I feel like walking in on a crime scene or working on a woman or child who was murdered and possibly raped before then would affect me.

 

[Sophisticator]

What field are you in?

Forensics. Wrongful death.

I feel like walking in on a crime scene or working on a woman or child who was murdered and possibly raped before then would affect me.

It helps if you stay emotionally detached, which might be difficult at times, but your emotions shouldn't cloud your objectivity; so you set aside your bias and personal feelings with respect for the deceased.

 

[Aurora Demon]

Forensics. Wrongful death.


It helps if you stay emotionally detached, which might be difficult at times, but your emotions shouldn't cloud your objectivity; so you set aside your bias and personal feelings with respect for the deceased.

Any advice on not bringing your work home?

 

[Sophisticator]

Any advice on not bringing your work home?

Leave your work clothes in the changing room and take a shower before you head out.