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, [...]