HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: SUMMARY
Despite the fact that the homosexual offender vs. adults was not infrequently an only child or the youngest child in the family, lie got along very badly with his father and not well with his mother. Nevertheless, there are evidences that he was unusually partial to his mother.
His social life during childhood was quantitatively good: he had numerous friends of both sexes. He also engaged in a good deal of prepubertal sex play which even at this early date was preponderantly homosexual. An even more impressive omen is the fact that over a quarter of these offenders had, as children, sexual contact with adult males.
Two other childhood phenomena probably played an important role in their lives. First, their childhoods were often marred by illness, and second, they reached puberty earlier than any other group. This latter fact may be of extreme importance, for it means that these boys were faced with strong sexual urges at an age when society makes no provision for any expression of sexuality.
The homosexual offenders vs. adults seem to have had the strongest sex drive of any groups if frequency of activity is taken as a measure. This is particularly evident in adult life in the amount of masturbation, which suggests an urgency that could not brook the delays inherent in obtaining any sociosexual activity.
The adult heterosexual lives of these men were comparatively stunted. Petting began at a late date, there was little of it, and the techniques were rather restrained. Only two thirds had had premarital coitus, a percentage surpassed by other groups at far younger ages. The relative lack of heterosexual activity stemmed in large part from disinterest, which is also reflected in the small proportion who ever married.
These offenders were strongly homosexual: nine out of ten had had more than incidental homosexual contacts and three quarters had had extensive experience, which not infrequently was quite promiscuous.
The homosexual offenders vs. adults, as a group, do not appear particularly criminal or dangerous. They do not damage society, they merely do not fit into it.
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