Paul Bernardo Essay, Research Paper

The urge shot through the mans body, uncontrollable, like sharks in a feeding frenzy. He

could only quench his feverish desires by carrying out unspeakable devilish acts. The victim

didn?t matter, no thought was given to any implications of the satanic rituals. Several times

Bernardo resorted to defecating of human beings in order to satisfy his sick and abnormal urges.

Paul Bernardo?s lustful and diverted sexual desires sprouted from the influence of pornography.

Pornography caused him to fixate on anal intercourse, and violent, dominant sex. Pornography

also played a large role in his lust for younger virgins, and the ever apparent satomasifism as

seen on tape.

Paul Bernardo, during his teenage years became slowly infatuated with women mostly

because of his obsession with porn films. At the time film was enough to feed his growing

desire for kinky sex. He was content to just watch and not act out what he saw on the videos.

Through the steady diet of grotesque video?s he became of aware of the type of women he

wanted through what he saw. He lusted a women who was submissive and eager to please. This

was the beginning of his abnormal sexual behavior.

One year out of high school, Paul began his journey into the world of sexual control were

he dated a sixteen year old high school student. This girl perfectly fit the description of Pauls

ideal in being naive and unsophisticated. Over the three and one half years Paul was with her he

used her like his personal sex toy. Throughout the entire relationship he convinced her that what

they were doing was acceptable behavior. An example of his acceptable behavior was wrapping

a piece of twine around her neck while he sodomized her. The twine only satisfied Bernardo for

a time. Later, a knife became part of his ?kit.? These mercenary acts were all influenced by

porno films. Paul became aroused with the power to be the master in his sexual acts and he

couldn?t get enough.

One night in October of 1993 Paul seemed to be a magnet to Karla Homoka. The minute

the two met, there relationship set off like a missile. Karla suffered love at first sight, with his

looks, charm and maturity she couldn?t go wrong. Karla was just the type of women Bernardo

desired. She was good-looking, had a great body was naive and trusting, someone he could

control, dominate and use as his personal sex toy. There sex life fired into action and the two

were constantly searching for new adventures. The pair began having anal sex with Paul pulling

a electrical cord around her own neck while his camera recorded the moment. The two?s

intimacy seemed to have no limits. When it came to their desires, their urges were unstoppable.

Karla was like a dream come true for Paul because she resembled the women in the Salacious

video?s Paul watched. This made Pauls sex life feral knowing that he had a tremendous

opportunity with Karla and all his sexual fantacies could be carried out.

Karla appeared as though she would go to all lengths to please her persuasive and

controlling lover. She was controlled by Paul that she helped him drug and rape her younger

sister Tammy. She even performed oral sex on her to please her demented lover, while Paul

filmed the event. This new world of sexual dementia brought Paul to abduct the teen Leslie

Mahaffy. Bernardo kept her for a day, during which he satisfied his lusts, videotaping the

assaults for later pleasure. Mahaffy had to refer to Bernardo as master as he raped her. Ten

months later Bernardo struck again kidnapping Kristen French. Bernardo inflicted similar

hideous atrocities to his 3rd victim as he had done before. Pauls putrescent fantasies, brought

upon by his early encounters with sex, altered his interests and enticed his mind. Becoming

remiss of his partners and being remorseless to their presence, he chose to act in such a

barbarous way. He only cared about his sexual satisfaction and felt that nothing could stand in

the way of his demented fantasies.

Indoctrinated in his mind at an early age, were demented ideas of what sexual fulfillment

should be. Paul Bernardo grew to become the remorseless, dysfunctional person he is today

because of his early experiences. Suffering from uncontrollable erotic sensations which

compelled him to carry out his inhuman acts he struggled to please his immense sexual appetite,

his many deranged fantasies were a result of his interest in pornographic material which fixated

his mind on limitless, controlling sex. If Bernardo was subject to different intellectual material

as a child Paul may have chosen a different path to follow.

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