HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: EXTRAMARITAL AND POSTMARITAL COITUS
Again like all homosexual offenders, relatively few of the homosexual offenders vs. children had extramarital coitus: 42 per cent of those who ever married, and the age-specific incidence is moderate to low. The age-specific incidence of extramarital coitus with prostitutes is quite low and frequently zero.
On the basis of our small sample, it appears that the average (median) offender with extramarital coitus had a moderate number of partners (five to six).
Too few cases are available to permit statements concerning the frequency of extramarital coitus among these offenders.
Being somewhat less heterosexually inclined than most, only about three quarters to four fifths of the currently separated, divorced, or widowed homosexual offenders vs. children had postmarital coitus—a rather low incidence. Their frequency was also relatively low in most age-periods. In consequence, the proportion of total outlet derived from postmarital coitus, either with companions or with prostitutes, tends to be small, ranging from 33 to 46 per cent in the former instance and from 2 to 4 per cent in the latter. The emphasis on prostitution seen in premarital life is absent in postmarital behavior.
Examination of the percentages of individuals whose first coital companions were of specified ages does not reveal anything meaningful. The homosexual offenders vs. children have intermediate percentages in the categories of girls under twelve, twelve to thirteen, and fourteen to fifteen. However, they display a low percentage (16 per cent) of persons whose initial coitus was with females of sixteen to seventeen; their low position in this particular rank-order is shared by the other homosexual offenders. In partners aged eighteen to twenty, however, the homosexual offenders vs. children unexpectedly rank second with 26 per cent—a sudden increase not seen in the other homosexual offenders. Nothing in our various statistical measurements explains this. With respect to first coital partners aged twenty-one and over, they occupy an intermediate rank.
The tabulation of the verbally expressed age preference does not indicate that the homosexual offender vs. children is in any way unusual, and the same may be said of the data regarding incestuous behavior.
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