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Background: In etiology field of sexual crime it is necessary to delve into the emotional function of cognition; consequently, our understanding of the conjunction between the cognitive and emotional dimension of sexual crime must be expanded. Objective: we try to understand the constitution of cognitive structures of the social emotions involved in commission of sexual crimes. Specifically, we identified the constitution of the systems of thought, the meanings and the intentionality of social emotions involved in the commission of sexual crimes. Methodology: Our methodological approach was phenomenological and the method was the expressive of the vocative. Twenty-five convicted and not convicted people of sexual crimes participated; four of them were in-depth interviews and 19 were anecdotal accounts. Results: we found eight constitutive modes called mas dramas: parental, savior, collector, narcissist, ghost, predator, cannibal and undefined; we found as well as five constitutive processes of conformation: diachrony, conflicting polarities, emotions (as mechanisms of orientation and interaction), situational and synchronous features, and the sexualization of emotion. The discussion was developed around: firstly, emotions in places and events in dramas and geometries of sexual crime; and secondly, the emotionalization of sex and the sexualization of emotion (the configuration of dramas and the geometries of sexual crime). Conclusions: the cognitive structure of sexual crime is constituted in the early sexualization of emotions as a response to conflicts of abuse, abandonment, attachment and overprotection. These conflicts lead the infant to seek protection, taking refuge in the gratification that sexuality generates.
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