Yeah, I hear what you're saying. Personality disorders are real. You often don't recognize that something is severely "off" with someone until a stressful period, such as a divorce, when these characteristics come out. It takes a long time to understand these personalities, too. Even psychiatrists have a lot of disagreement on what they are and how they manifest and who actually should be diagnosed and who is just under a lot of stress and is acting out of stress.

It should be pointed out that this article is almost 25 years old. A lot has changed in terms of understanding personality disorders and what causes them, mostly due to having a better understanding of the brain and how it functions.

Many people will accuse others of bad acts to manipulate a situation toward what they want. Lying, emotional meltdowns, manipulating others are tricks used by everyone at some point to get their way. People with personality disorders just use these techniques to a much more extreme level and have no concern for the effect on the other person. They often lack a conscience and feel no remorse. It is infuriating when you see someone get away with crap, isn't it? While anyone may do these things from time to time, a normal person would at least feel bad about what they did. People with personality disorders do not….sometimes because they are incapable of those feelings, sometimes because their own suffering is so extreme that they lack the ability to acknowledge the suffering of others.

False accusations are sometimes punished. There was a story a couple of years back in my area about a sixteen year old girl who accused a neighbor boy of raping her because she wanted to deflect her parent's attention from the fact that she was looking at porn on the computer. He went to jail for 4 years.

Later, she admitted that she had lied. He was released. She went to jail for perjury.

To me, that was the correct response. But you are so right. I suspect this very rarely happens.

true when you think about the age of the article - however, remember the study that was done about sex offenders that included statistics that are still used today to make oppressive laws (such as "no cure" for sex offenders 0r high re offense rate) was done in the mid 60s - so at least 40 to 45 years ago. And even though countless studies have been released since rebuking those statistics i still see articles and laws that actually quote that misinformation.

While the article is many years old, human nature knows no time limits and the article reflects what exists today, as it did many years ago, in the kind of person it takes to make such false allegations. About all that has advanced since the article was written is this notion that we should not or are not permitted to question the character and credibility of the accuser. Rather, so often we take their accusation on face value and shows like "Law And Order - Special Victims Unit" teach wanna be victims how to act and what to say to advance their hidden agendas and evilness against another.

I do not believe we are in an epidemic of sex crimes, but rather that sex crimes are just reported more today than they were many years ago. The inherent down fall to the publicity such has received and more so involving high profile cases, is that people have learned that all it takes is a mere allegation and the person's life is destroyed or their credibility is shot in striving for what they are otherwise lawfully and legally entitled to receive. What better way to get even, to win a custody battle, or prevent a parent having visitation - and too many people use this evil strategy.

In many ways, sex crimes have lost the needed focus on the destruction they cause true victims, as sex crimes have effectively or essentially turned into a battle of the sexes. Its gotten to the point that men are no longer safe having sex with someone without first obtaining a signed consent form beforehand, and then videotaping their every move when around even their own children.

Good points!