March 2009

PATTERNED OFFENDERS: PREMARITAL COITUS

The incidence figures on this are too large to be really useful for comparison, but there is some evidence that fewer of the patterned than incidental offenders had premarital coitus; this is clear in three groups and suggested in an additional two. This trend, in keeping with the patterned offenders’ smaller number of petting partners, [...]

CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE SEX OFFENSE

In this chapter we shall examine the circumstances in which the various sex offenses took place. The offenses involved considerably outnumber the offenders since many of the 1,356 offenders committed more than one offense. Thus the total number of offenses in the sample is 2,274. Of these, 2,111 fall in the 14 major categories and [...]

EXTRAMARITAL COITUS: INCIDENCE

The group percentages vary widely, ranging from 31 to 84 per cent. Usually duration of marriage is an inconsequential factor: groups very similar in this respect are scattered widely in the rank-order of those who had extramarital coitus. For example, both the aggressors vs. adults and the exhibitionists married in their early twenties, both were [...]

LEARNING TO MASTURBATE

While it is almost certain that a boy, even though isolated from all other boys from birth onward, would eventually discover masturbation, the great majority learn about it through observation or from talking with others. On the basis of what we know of prepubertal sexuality, the majority, if not all, of prepubertal individuals of both [...]

EXHIBITIONISTS: HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY

In a rank-order of the percentages with postpubertal homosexual experience, the exhibitionists occupy an intermediate position with 53 per cent. They occupy essentially the same position in terms of accumulative incidence, being intermediate. Some 23 per cent had had homosexual experience by age fourteen, one third by age sixteen, nearly 40 per cent by twenty, [...]

MUCOPURULENT CERVICITIS: HOW COMMON IS IT? WHAT ARE THE SYMTOMS?

Infections of the cervix are very common. It is estimated that between four and six million women in the United States are diagnosed with MPC each year and that even more women have undetected infection. Accurate numbers are not available, since cervicitis is not reportable to the health department in every state. MPC appears to [...]

STD HERPES: FACTORS WHICH CAN TRIGGER OUTBREAKS

Various factors can trigger an outbreak. Some people, for example, believe that emotional or physical stress brings on oral and genital outbreaks. Others find that outbreaks are brought on by certain foods (nuts, chocolate), trauma to the skin, menstruation, fatigue, poor nutrition, illness, and exposure to sunlight. Keeping track of potential triggers, possibly in a [...]

STD EPIDIDYMITIS: HOW COMMON ARE THEY?

There are no reliable statistics about how many men are diagnosed each year with epididymitis and prostatitis, but we do know that these are common infections. Epididymitis When epididymitis occurs in younger men, it is usually caused by sexually transmitted bacteria, such as those that cause chlamydia, gonorrhea, and nongonococcal urethritis, often acquired through unprotected [...]

LAPAROSCOPIC PELVIC LYMPHADENECTOMY: WHAT HAPPENS

In a laparoscopic pelvic lymph node dissection, doctors make a tiny incision, about half an inch long, just beneath the navel. By means of a small needle, the abdomen is gendy filled with air, to give doctors more room to work. Then, using a tiny camera and watching the procedure as it happens on a [...]

PROSTATE CANCER: MORE ON THE HIGH-FAT DIET

We’ve said that diet probably isn’t enough to cause prostate cancer on its own. However, it can’t be overlooked as a significant risk factor. Several studies have shown that men with high-fiber, low-fat diets are less likely to get prostate cancer. One study found prostate cancer deaths in thirty-two countries to be highly linked to [...]