HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. MINORS: SEX DREAMS
The heterosexual offenders vs. minors, like the offenders vs. children, show no salient features in their sexual behavior or dreams during sleep. About all that one can say is that they are less inclined than most offenders to have nocturnal emissions. This is more noticeable in early life: by age fourteen, for example, only 15 per cent had had that experience contrasted with the control group’s 44 and the prison group’s 28 per cent. This may be largely the result of their unusually successful search for heterosexual outlet; a group with considerable coital activity can be expected to have fewer nocturnal emissions and sexual dreams. It could equally well be the result of the unimaginative-ness associated with the lower intelligence they manifest.
The frequency of nocturnal emission is correspondingly moderate to low, as is seen in the median frequencies within various age-periods: the median individual had 4 or 5 per year from puberty on, a frequency much lower than that of the control group. The erratic behavior of the mean frequencies is due to one extremely unusual individual; if one disregards him, the mean frequencies are also moderate to low.
The age-specific incidence of nocturnal emissions among the single males is always low to moderate, hovering around 60 per cent (except for a very low 25 per cent during the years from puberty to fifteen), but from thirty-one to thirty-five this 60 per cent figure earns them fourth rank because the incidence figures of the other groups have decreased while the offenders vs. minors maintain their remarkable stability of incidence. As for the married offenders vs. minors it is of interest to note that they had a low age-specific incidence of nocturnal emissions: only between one fifth and two fifths experienced nocturnal emissions in any five-year period.
The small number of males experiencing nocturnal orgasms includes one single male and one married male with extraordinarily high frequencies; in consequence the calculations for percentage of total outlet derived in sleep are misleading. Were it not for these two persons the percentages would be in no way unusual. The separated, divorced, or widowed males display, in general, moderate percentages, usually the same as or less than those of the control group.
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