INCEST OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY
More of the incest offenders vs. children had had homosexual experience than did the members of the other two incest groups. Fifty-two per cent had had such contacts in or out of prison; this percentage is intermediate in comparison to those of other groups. However, all incest-offender groups are alike in having very few of their members with more than incidental homosexual experience; the incest offenders vs. children have 12 per cent while the other two incest groups have substantially less. The incest offenders vs. children are unique in having a moderate number of individuals with homosexual experience but few with extensive experience. As a rule there is a rather close agreement between the number with experience and the number with extensive experience, and a given type of sex offender occupies about the same rank-order position in the two scales. The incest offenders vs. children breach this rule.
In their conscious psychologic response, the incest offenders vs. children are, like all incest offenders, strongly heterosexual: only a tiny 4 per cent reported sexual arousal from thinking of or seeing members of the same sex, and none reported a strong sexual response to these stimuli.
In accumulative incidence, the percentage of individuals with experience by a given age, the incest offenders vs. children always are intermediate: about 24 per cent were experienced by age fourteen and ultimately 45 per. cent by age twenty-six. The percentages are far in excess (often more than double, actually) of those of the other incest offenders. The incest offenders vs. children also had their first post-pubertal homosexual contacts at an earlier average age (16.8 years old) than did the other incest offenders, though a bit later than most other offenders.
In age-specific incidence, the number having homosexual contacts within a given age-period, the single incest offenders vs. children, unlike the other incest offenders, occupy intermediate positions in the rank-orders up to age twenty, with from 18 to 23 per cent being involved. In the following periods, 21-25 and 26-30, they rank second lowest with only 11 per cent. Such minimal involvement seems typical of the other incest offenders as well; in fact none of them had any homosexual contacts between twenty-one and twenty-five. The married offenders present a pattern similar to that of the single men: moderate numbers (6-7 per cent) engaged in homosexual acts in earlier life and then suddenly ceased. In age-period 36-40 all three incest offender groups agree in having none of their constituents with homosexual activity.
The frequency of homosexual contacts per year outside prison makes a similar pattern, the three incest-offender groups having fewer than any others. In fact, they are the only groups with frequencies of less than once a year; of the three, the offenders vs. children had the highest frequency—0.6 per year. This minute quantity is the more striking when one realizes that the control group averaged 3.4 a year and the homosexual groups range from about 30 to 85 a year.
As in the case of the other incest offenders, the proportion of total sexual outlet obtained through homosexual behavior is small, ranging from 1 to 2 per cent, and always less than that of the control group. It is possible to calculate the frequencies of premarital homosexual activity for age-periods puberty-15 and 16-20; small sample size prevents calculating further. In these calculations, whether mean or median, the incest offenders vs. children reveal the lowest frequencies of any group whose frequencies could be calculated: about 3 (median) to 6 (mean) times per year among those with such activity.
Again like the other incest offenders, the incest offenders vs. children had few male sexual partners. Of those with homosexual experience, 42 per cent had only one partner and 50 per cent had two to five partners. Only the three incest-offender groups had no one with over 20 homosexual partners.
The incest offenders vs. children were rather tolerant of male homosexuality and definitely more so than the other incest offenders. This follows the general rule that the more individuals in a group with a given type of behavior, the greater the tolerance expressed by the group concerning that behavior; people naturally do not like to condemn themselves. Forty-nine per cent, a relatively moderate proportion, disapproved and 14 per cent, a slightly larger proportion, appoved. In addition 36 percent were neutral—the third largest proportion recorded.
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