INCEST OFFENDERS VS. MINORS: PREMARITAL COITUS
Only an average number of the incest offenders vs. minors had premarital intercourse before they were eighteen, but thereafter the proportion mounts fairly rapidly to 90 per cent by age twenty. This advance is to be anticipated since premarital coitus ordinarily foreshadows marriage. However, the age-specific incidence of premarital coitus with companions is consistently moderate.
Compared with other groups, they had low coital frequencies before marriage. For example, even if we take into account only those who had premarital coitus, the average rate between twenty-one and twenty-five was once in three weeks—the second lowest frequency recorded. Mean frequencies are also quite low, always substantially less than those of the control group.
There is nothing especially interesting in the figures on their coitus with prostitutes; they tend to occupy middle positions in all the rank-orders. Prostitution increases in importance with age: in age-period 16-20 they had coitus with prostitutes about half as often as with companions, but in age-period 21-25 the frequencies are essentially equal. In the median frequency of premarital coitus with prostitutes at ages sixteen to twenty the incest offenders vs. minors rank second. However, the frequencies in this particular rank-order are so low—a matter of 3 to 11 times per year—that rank-order position is less meaningful.
While they had coitus with an average number of prostitutes before marriage (12), they had few nonprostitute coital partners—the average being five, the third smallest number recorded. This situation is in keeping with their below-average record of premarital petting.
The proportion of total sexual outlet derived from premarital coitus with companions is moderate in comparison to other groups, ranging from 12 to 30 per cent. However, the proportions derived from premarital coitus with prostitutes are quite large in age-periods 16-20 and 21-25, when these offenders rank third and first.
Like the incest offenders vs. children, a moderate number (56 per cent) claimed that lack of opportunity was a prime factor in their not having had, or having had more, premarital coitus. True, they got off to a rather late start in heterosexual activity and did not have large numbers of petting or coital partners, but any group in which nine out of every ten members had coital experience by age twenty cannot be regarded as having suffered deprivation. With regard to other restraints on premarital coitus—moral considerations, fear of pregnancy, disease, or public opinion—the incest offenders vs. minors seem about average. Relatively few (22 per cent) reported lack of interest as a major factor, but a somewhat large proportion (18 per cent, third in rank-order) were held back with their fianc?es by a desire for virgin brides.
Before closing the subject of premarital coitus, it is worth mention that these offenders more than any other group enjoyed their first coitus: 81 per cent (the largest proportion recorded) reported it as extremely enjoyable, while only 11 per cent (the smallest proportion on record) stated that it was unpleasant to mildly pleasant.
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