HETEROSEXUAL AGGRESSORS VS. MINORS: MASTURBATION
The heterosexual aggressors vs. minors rapidly acquired masturbatory experience after puberty. By age fourteen a full 92 per cent were experienced, and 96 per cent by age sixteen. This is the most rapid cumulation seen in any group. In age-specific incidence the single aggressors had the largest proportion (96 per cent) who masturbated from puberty to age fifteen. However, in the following period (16-20) the figure is a moderate 86 per cent. Like all aggressors, they show a tendency toward high maximal frequencies: most sex offenders never exceeded twice a week, but more of the aggressors had their maximal “records” in the 3 to 5 per week category than in any other category of frequency.
This tendency toward high maximal frequencies foreshadows the masturbatory frequencies in premarital life, at least up to age twenty, which is as far as our data permit analysis. The aggressors vs. minors display the second highest average (mean) frequency between puberty and age fifteen (3.6 per week) and the fourth highest (2.3, exceeded only by the three homosexual-offender groups) between ages sixteen and twenty. The other measure of average, the median, shows the average aggressor vs. minors ranking high-intermediate in masturbatory frequency between puberty and age fifteen, and in third rank between ages sixteen and twenty, both frequencies being 1.5 per week. In brief, the aggressors vs. minors have high frequencies of masturbation prior to marriage, second only to those of the homosexual offenders. Too few married aggressors vs. minors exist in our sample to permit calculation of their masturbatory frequencies.
In masturbatory fantasy the aggressors vs. minors are quite outstanding. More of them (96 per cent) fantasied than did the members of any other group. A high percentage of individuals who fantasy is characteristic of all aggressors. The fantasy content also provides an interesting insight into the aggressors vs. minors: every one of the 96 per cent had had heterosexual fantasies and 17 per cent (the largest percentage) had had sadomasochistic fantasies. Note only 2 per cent of the control group had sadomasochistic fantasies. The aggressors vs. adults ranked in second place. The fact that the men in these two aggressor groups were ultimately convicted of heterosexual offenses involving force or threat is in keeping with their fantasy life. The emphasis on fantasy is, of course, related to their general psychological responsiveness.
The aggressors vs. minors, like the aggressors vs. children, reported that for almost half of the years during which they masturbated they worried about it. This places both groups in fourth rank of a rank-order of “worriers.”
Comparatively few (18 per cent, the third smallest percentage) first learned of masturbation from talking or reading rather than through self-discovery. An above-average number (30 per cent) learned by being masturbated by someone else. The figure for being masturbated (which greatly exceeds that of the aggressors vs. children) may be the result of the abundance of prepubertal sex play that characterizes the aggressors vs. minors as compared to the aggressors vs. children. This sex play, with its opportunities to observe masturbation or to be masturbated, when coupled with the beginning of masturbation at an early age makes the aggressor vs. minors rank high in the categories of learning by seeing, and by being masturbated; consequently the percentage who learned by talking or reading is correspondingly reduced.
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