Betacandy wrote a post last week praising an episode of Law & Order: CI, and within the comments I mentioned that I have deep misgivings about the Special Victims branch of the franchise, which focusses on (what else?) sex crimes.

It’s not so much that a show entirely about sexual violence (or violence with sexual elements) almost inevitably becomes focussed on and driven by the shock value of just how sick some people can be–though that’s certainly true, and a part … READ MORE