If you or someone you know is struggling with violent thoughts or has been affected by the content discussed in works like “Bobby-s Memoirs of Depravity,” please contact a mental health professional or crisis support line. Some doors, once opened, are difficult to close.
Supporters (usually scholars of extreme art) argue that the memoirs provide invaluable insight into the antisocial mind. Dr. Helena Voss, author of The Poetics of Cruelty , writes: “To forbid Bobby’s text is to pretend that depravity does not exist. He forces us to look at the apparatus of harm. That is uncomfortable, but necessary.” Bobby-s Memoirs of Depravity