The offenders vs. children retain a “middle of the road” position among those who had premarital coitus (90 per cent), and in the accumulative incidence figures (97 per cent by age thirty-five). They are similarly moderate in terms of age-specific incidence, the percentages having premarital coitus with companions in any five-year age-period. Beginning with 27 per cent between puberty and age fifteen, the age-specific incidence holds at a two-thirds to three-fifths level thereafter. However, in the age-specific incidence of premarital coitus with prostitutes these offenders rise from moderate levels to third rank in age-period 26-30 with 70 per cent of their as yet unmarried males involved. In the next age-period, 31-35, they are in second rank with nearly the same percentage. Since we have few goups with a sufficient number of single males over thirty-five, there is little purpose in calculating further. It is worth noting that die incidence figures for these offenders vs. children rise to still higher levels with respect to coitus with prostitutes. It is most unusual to have, as is often true of these offenders, the age-specific incidence of coitus with prostitutes exceed the age-specific incidence of coitus with companions.
Despite their unobtrusive early percentages regarding coitus with prostitutes, a rather large proportion (27 per cent) had their first coitus with a prostitute rather than with a companion. This may be a simple function of age; coitus with prostitutes was more common in the past than it has been recently, and the offenders vs. children are our third oldest group of offenders. In contrast, relatively few of our younger groups (e.g., aggressors vs. minors, peepers, prison group, and offenders vs. minors) had their first coital experience with prostitutes.
There is nothing unusual in the frequency with which the offenders vs. children had premarital coitus. The average (median) individual had a rather uniform frequency of 0.4 to 0.5 per week from puberty onward, about equal to that of the control group. The bulk of the coitus was with companions rather than with prostitutes, and after age twenty-five the offenders vs. children exhibit relatively high mean frequencies of premarital coitus with companions. The frequency of premarital coitus with prostitutes is in no way remarkable.
In terms of numbers of premarital coital partners, the average offender vs. children who had premarital coitus had it with ten companions and 15 prostitutes. The number of companions is moderate in comparison with other offender groups, but well above the average control-group individual’s eight. In premarital experience with prostitutes, the offender vs. children ranks sixth.
The proportion of total outlet consisting of premarital coitus with companions is moderate, increasing from 13 per cent to 37 per cent by age thirty. In age-period 31-35, however, the unmarried offenders vs. children rank third with 48 per cent of their orgasms derived from such coitus.
The proportion of total outlet constituted by premarital coitus with prostitutes increased from a moderate level to 25 per cent in age-period 36-40, winning these offenders vs. children first rank in this respect. In the following age-period, 41-45, they rank third, but still derived nearly one quarter of their outlet from this source.
As for the factors that restrain premarital coitus, nearly one third of the offenders vs. children, the third largest proportion recorded (just below the 34 per cent of the control group), reported strong moral inhibitions. Slightly over one fifth (the largest proportion of any group) were strongly restrained by fear of impregnating their partners. Nineteen per cent (the fourth largest percentage) were often held back by fear of venereal disease, and 14 per cent (the second largest percentage) were quite concerned over public opinion. Relatively few refrained from lack of desire, and a rather large proportion (60 per cent) reported lack of opportunity as a major factor. Rating in first to fourth place in four of the six categories of restraint that we established makes the offender vs. children a singularly inhibited offender psychologically if not behaviorally. To have maintained an average sort of premarital coital record (average in terms of other offenders) must have cost the offenders vs. children dearly in terms of worry and/or guilt
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