“A 21-year-old University of Manitoba student has been busted for a series of arsons and sexual assaults on the Fort Garry campus that may have been spurred by a rare disorder. Psychologists and police say it’s possible the suspect — who was enrolled in the faculty of engineering — became sexually aroused after allegedly setting the fires… The disorder, sometimes referred to as ‘eroticized arson,’ has been documented in the United States. ‘The pyromaniac who sets fire to a building seeks a charge of sexualized power and control,’ according to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement. ‘Pyromaniacs have been known to experience spontaneous sexual arousal and orgasm while observing fires they have set.’” — Winnipeg Sun (Canada)

In a certain respect, eroticized arson is not such a mystery. Everyone tends to use thermometer language to describe sex. A desirable person is hot, sex can get steamy, you can burn with lust. Conversely, someone disinterested in sex might give you the cold shoulder and then you’d say that he or she was frigid. We all seem to assume that sex has its own thermodynamics, so should it be any surprise that certain degenerate individuals push this to its logical conclusion?

If anything is surprising, it’s that these erotic arsonists confine their fires to garbage cans, trash heaps, newsstands, and the occasional house. Given their fetish, you’d think they would get most excited by dousing someone with gasoline and setting him on fire — a beautiful babe or a beefy guy writhing in flames. As it is, you never hear about this happening except to homeless guys, and then it’s not a fetishist but a group of sick teenagers who ignite the poor bastard on a subway platform. So maybe it really is the fire that stimulates erotic arsonists — not the conjunction of flesh and flame, but the flame itself, regardless of what burns.

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