INCEST OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: OTHER FACTORS
In our analyses of sexual arousal from seeing or thinking of males and females, or from viewing pornographic or sadomasochistic materials, the incest offenders are outstanding in two respects. First, more of them responded sexually to thinking of or seeing females than was true of any other group. Only 4 per cent reported little or no arousal from these stimuli, while most of our comparative groups had four or five times as many unresponsive members. In this respect the incest offenders vs. children differ markedly from the other incest offenders, of whom about one quarter reported little or no response. The responsiveness of the incest offenders vs. children fits in with their preoccupation with sex, which is typical of the dependent variety of incest offender. However, only a moderate proportion of incest offenders vs. children reported strong arousal from sight or thought of females. Their second salient feature is one shared with the other incest offenders: an extremely small proportion (4 per cent) responded to the sight or thought of males.
These incest offenders had the second largest (23 per cent) proportion of alcoholics. They also have the distinction of having among their number the fewest teetotalers—only 4 per cent. The importance of alcohol to this group of sex offenders is obvious.
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