In the clinical literature, the term “parallel process” describes the way in which the dynamics of supervision echo those taking place in the relationship between the therapist and the patient. Gray and Fiscalini (1987) discerned how the same kind of unconscious enactments could occur in any sequence of interpersonal engagements that shared similar characteristics. Sex offenders, forensic practitioners, representatives of the criminal justice system, and the public embody such a dynamic series. Their parallel identifications often drive communal enactments that fuel misguided social policies regarding sex crimes. In this article, I examine how the deep splitting triggered by our own sexual desires and fears has fueled a contemporary hysteria that vilifies strangers, who may not have even committed any serious crimes, while deflecting attention from the most frequent location of sexual offense: the home.