The author summarizes recent events in Minnesota and Wisconsin, two of the original SVP states. Their programs are now a decade or more old. "The central lesson of these stories is that the politics of sexual violence, as framed by SVP laws and popular passion, will not let us close this Pandora’s box. Ultimately, it will be both society at large and future victims of sexual violence who suffer, because the expense of SVP programs is wildly out of proportion to their benefit."