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, and 46 per cent by age twenty-six. The average (median) exhibitionist had his first postpubertal homosexual activity at age 15.7, a rather advanced age compared to other groups, and a full two years after puberty. Note in this connection that the exhibitionists had few female friends in age-categories 10-11 “and 16-17, and that they worried excessively over their self-masturbation.
A moderate number, one quarter, had more than incidental homosexual experience. Incarceration seems to have had no pronounced effect, since 44 per cent had homosexual activity outside institutions, which puts them in an intermediate position compared to other groups.
Age-specific incidence, the number who had homosexual activity during a specified age-period, reveals nothing unusual about the single exhibitionists except that the percentages are remarkably stable, varying only from 17 to 22 per cent in the years between puberty and age forty. The figures for the married exhibitionists, on the other hand, are very low, ranging from 0 to 4 per cent. Similarly the separated, divorced, and widowed had low incidences of from 5 to 14 per cent.
If one divides the number of postpubertal homosexual experiences outside prison by the number of postpubertal years outside prison and thus derives a frequency, the unmarried exhibitionists are seen to have a low frequency—twice a year; only the incest offenders had lower. In our other measures of frequency (the mean and median frequencies of homosexual activity during five-year periods), the exhibitionists who do have homosexual activity have it with quite moderate frequencies, the average (median) individual having 5 to 6 orgasms per year with another male. The mean frequencies are between once in three weeks and once in two, less than those of the control group.
The proportion of total outlet derived by the unmarried exhibitionists from homosexual activity is moderate up to age twenty-five and small thereafter.
The average exhibitionist had sexual contact with only a moderate number (four) of males. One cannot, as in the case of the peepers, attribute their moderation to youthfulness—the exhibitionists are not one of the younger groups. Lastly, no exhibitionist had over 75 male partners, whereas ten of our comparative groups contained some persons who had more.
They were inclined to be neutral when queried about their attitudes toward male homosexuality. Some 33 per cent were neutral (fourth in rank-order), and 20 per cent (third in rank) were mildly disapproving. In voicing strong approval or disapproval, the exhibitionists are intermediate in rank-order.
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