Archive for March 27th, 2009

HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: EXTRAMARITAL AND POSTMARITAL COITUS

Fewer of the married homosexual offenders than the married members of any other group had extramarital coitus; the homosexual offenders vs. minors, with 39 per cent experienced, fall midway between the two other homosexual-offender groups. In age-specific incidence of extramarital coitus with companions they are always in the lower third of the rank-orders. Concerning extramarital [...]

INCEST OFFENDERS VS. MINORS: CRIMINALITY

Like all incest offenders, few of these men had records of juvenile offenses, and few of the offenses were serious enough to merit incarceration for six months or more. Moreover, they are one of the three groups (including the incest offenders vs. adults) whose members had no juvenile sex-offense records.

They became involved with the courts [...]

HETEROSEXUAL AGGRESSORS VS. ADULTS: MASTURBATION

The incidence of postpubescent masturbation among aggressors vs. adults, and the median age at which it began, are in no way noteworthy.

The tendency to have high frequencies of masturbation before marriage, which we saw in the aggressors vs. minors, is seen again among the aggressors vs. adults. The mean frequency remains high between the ages [...]

HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: SEX DREAMS

While in comparison with other groups the heterosexual offenders vs. adults had a great deal of premarital heterosexual outlet, they nevertheless display the second highest percentage (86 per cent) of individuals who had nocturnal emissions. Eighteen per cent had ejaculations during sleep never accompanied by a dream insofar as they could recall; this is the [...]

COMPOSITION AND SIZE OF SAMPLE: RELIGION

Approximately two thirds of the control and prison groups are Protestant and one quarter are Catholic. Jews arc slightly underrepresented in the control group and are, as is generally the case, rare in the prison group. The religious composition of the sex offenders differs: about three quarters are Protestant, one fifth Catholic, and only .1 [...]