As we mentioned previously, masturbation was relatively a more important sexual outlet to the homosexual offenders vs. minors and adults than to other offenders or control-group individuals. This fact is illustrated in age-specific incidence: in virtually any age-period after puberty the single homosexual offenders vs. minors and homosexual offenders vs. adults may be found in the top three ranks with 88 to 100 per cent of their members involved. In early life when masturbation is prevalent among all groups this phenomenon is less clear-cut, but in later life the differences are more dramatic. For example, among the single males between the ages of thirty-one and thirty-five about 67 per cent of the control group and 46 per cent of the prison group masturbated, whereas 100 per cent of the homosexual offenders vs. minors and 89 per cent of the homosexual offenders vs. adults did so. A group whose preferred sociosexual activity is taboo can be expected to have a high compensatory incidence of masturbation, but this cannot wholly account for the differences—especially since many homosexual offenders vs. children were not predominantly homosexual in their interests. This is illustrated in the age-specific incidence of masturbation among married homosexual offenders vs. minors. Aside from a high (55 per cent) incidence between ages twenty-one to twenty-five, the incidence of masturbation is not unusual and is within five percentage points of that of the control group. The same phenomenon may be seen in accumulative incidence, the proportion with postpubertal masturbation by a given age. By age twelve the number of homosexual offenders vs. minors with such experience is exceeded by none. At later ages, as one would expect, the differences in this ever-never type of measurement become progressively less.
In frequency of premarital masturbation the homosexual offenders vs. minors rank second only to the homosexual offenders vs. adults. The average (median) individual occupies second rank in three out of five age-periods having a frequency of from roughly twice a week to once a week. These frequencies are nearly double those of the control group. The picture presented by the average (mean) frequencies is similar: the homosexual offenders vs. minors ordinarily occupy second or third rank with frequencies of from 2 to 3 a week. Despite the high ranking of the unmarried homosexual offenders vs. minors, the married individuals show only moderate masturbation frequencies.
The unmarried males obtained only a moderate proportion of their orgasms from masturbation until age-period 26-30 when they rank third with 46 per cent of their orgasms thus derived. From then on they rank first or second. One might speculate that as they aged and the awkward age gap between themselves and their minor objects widened, they increasingly turned to self-stimulation, but actually the percentages of total outlet from masturbation remain rather stable (45-49 per cent) between ages twenty-one and forty, though always exceeding the percentages derived from homosexual activity. The married men, not so homosexually inclined, relied less on masturbation and have ordinarily moderate to small proportions (1-7 per cent). It is noteworthy that these offenders, single or married, display smaller masturbatory proportions of total outlet than the homosexual offenders vs. children. This may well reflect the difference between the sexual accessibility of children and of minors, more of the latter having budding sexual drives of their own.
Among males whose marriages ended, masturbation never again equaled its premarital importance (in proportional terms), but did rebound to a greater degree than in either the control or prison groups.
This emphasis on masturbation is again seen in the study of the maximum frequency of masturbation achieved in any one week. Some 15 per cent of the homosexual offenders vs. minors had masturbated more than 12 times in one week, a percentage exceeded only by the peepers and the homosexual offenders vs. adults. Conversely, a relatively low percentage (14 per cent) had their maxima as once or twice a week. The average was 6.4 a week, the third highest recorded.
There is nothing unusual about the masturbatory fantasies of the homosexual offenders vs. minors except, naturally, that a much larger percentage (78 per cent) than usual had had homosexual fantasies and fewer had heterosexual fantasies. The homosexual offenders rank first, second (the offenders vs. minors), and third in the proportion who had fantasies of males while masturbating. They rank in the same sequence in erotic response to thinking of or seeing males: some 73 per cent of the homosexual offenders vs. minors were sexually aroused by such stimuli, and 43 per cent reported strong arousal. Only the homosexual offenders vs. adults reveal larger proportions.
The homosexual offenders vs. minors are in no way unusual in the amount of concern they suffered regarding the alleged bad effects of masturbation.
Like other homosexual offenders, a relatively large proportion of the offenders vs. minors learned of masturbation through being masturbated by someone else (36 per cent, third in rank-order) and through self-discovery (16 per cent, fifth in rank-order). Few (27 per cent, the third smallest proportion) learned from observation. As explained earlier in the discussion of homosexual offenders vs. children, the high figure for being masturbated stems from the large amount of prepubertal sex play, most of which was homosexual. The high figure for self-discovery is the result of the large number who masturbated, not only before puberty but at a quite early age when self-discovery is more probable.
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