Titillating Chat Therapy
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In an age of medicalized behavior no shock that James Pacenza might say that his post-traumatic stress as a Vietnam vet makes a bit of dirty talk on the web therapeutic.
“I was tempting myself to perhaps become involved in some titillating conversation,” he said in court papers.
Pacenza said he was called away before he got involved in any online conversation. But he apparently did not log off, and when another worker went to Pacenza’s station, he saw some chat entries, including a vulgar reference to a sexual act.
He reported his discovery to his boss, who fired Pacenza the next day.
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