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 second largest percentage recorded and is in agreement with their similar minimal masturbation fantasy. Their dreams were almost exclusively ordinary heterosexual dreams.
The single offenders have moderate age-specific incidence figures for nocturnal emissions except in age-period 26-30 when they rank first with a surprising 78 per cent. In the next age-period, 31-35, they return to their usual intermediate position in the rank-order.
While fewer of the married offenders vs. adults experienced nocturnal emissions in any age-period up to thirty-six than did the married members of the prison or control groups, at older ages they surpass these two groups. This unexpected and marked increase after thirty-five is unique and inexplicable, and puts them at the top of the rank-order in age-period 36-40 (53 per cent) and age-period 41-45 ( 67 per cent).
While a large proportion of offenders vs. adults had nocturnal emissions, they had them with only moderate frequency. In both median and mean measurements of average frequency they are intermediate with respect to other sex offenders, but far below the control group. Their third rank at ages twenty-six to thirty in mean frequency should be disregarded, since it results from the activity of one very unusual individual. The average (median) unmarried offender vs. adults experienced 4 to 5 nocturnal emissions a year after age fifteen.
The proportion of total sexual outlet constituted by nocturnal emissions is unexceptional among the never married until age-period 26-30 when one individual’s extraordinarily high frequencies increase the proportion markedly. If this lone male is disregarded, the proportion of total outlet derived from nocturnal emissions remains moderate to low among the single males.
The married men, on the contrary, found relatively large proportions of their total outlet in such emissions: the married offenders vs. adults rank from second to fourth from age sixteen to thirty-five and second from age forty-one to fifty. The actual figures are, of course, small, as is true for all married groups, ranging from 2 to 6 per cent.
The previously married but currently unmarried males display moderate percentages in all age-periods, ranging from 3 to 5 per cent.
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