The average (median) incest offender vs. minors was twenty-two years old at his first marriage. A year later, by age twenty-three, some 79 per cent were married, and by age thirty, 98 per cent. Because of this, plus their greater average age, these offenders had spent a greater proportion of their postpubertal years of life as husbands (58 per cent) than anyone else.
This drive toward matrimony does not mean that their marriages were notably stable; in fact, a relatively small number (53 per cent) stayed with their first wives and a large number (21 per cent) had three or more marriages. On the other hand, these offenders do not show a tendency toward brief marriages such as was seen among the aggressors vs. minors; a relatively small number reported marriages that terminated within two years.
The incest offenders vs. minors were likewise not given to hasty marriages, but knew their future wives for a comparatively long time before marriage—nine months, to be precise. While this figure is far less than the control group’s 17 months, it is surpassed by only two groups besides the control.
Despite this relatively lengthy acquaintance only a moderate number had premarital coitus with their subsequent wives. Notwithstanding this, and in the face of the rather low frequencies of premarital coitus in general (we did not calculate frequency with fianc?e alone), an inexplicably large proportion of premarital pregnancies resulted: 27 per cent, the largest number recorded, of the brides were pregnant as they took their vows.
In later life they lived up to this omen of fertility; the average couple produced nearly five children, making the incest offenders vs. minors our second most fertile group, the first being the incest offenders vs. adults, and the third the incest offenders vs. children.
There is nothing unusual about the amount of time spent in precoital play or in the sexual techniques of the incest offenders vs. minors. The only point worth noting is that a large number of this group, like the incest offenders vs. children, had used coital positions other than the standard male-prone female-supine.
The incest offenders vs. minors display low to intermediate frequencies of marital coitus. While their position in the rank-orders thus varies, the actual median frequencies remain surprisingly uniform: for example, in age-period 16-20 the average individual had coitus with his wife 2.17 times per week; in age-period 21-25, 2.38; in age-period 26-30, 2.32; and in age-period 31-35 the frequency is back to 2.16 per week. These frequencies are lower than those of the control group. It may be recalled that these offenders vs. minors also displayed low frequencies of premarital coitus.
The mean frequencies are nearly always low and never higher than intermediate in rank-order.
Despite the low frequencies of marital coitus, this particular sexual activity constituted both an absolutely and relatively large proportion of the total sexual outlet of these married offenders in their teens and twenties. From age sixteen to thirty they drew 90 to 94 per cent of their total outlet from this source, proportions earning them first or second place in the rank-orders; in age-periods 21-25 and 26-30 they were second only to the incest offenders vs. adults.
The wives of the incest offenders vs. minors seem to have had orgasms less often than the wives of the men in other groups, if one can believe their husbands’ reports. A somewhat large number (18 per cent, fourth in rank) of their wives’ married years were marked by low (10 per cent or less) orgasm rates, while a somewhat low percentage (53 per cent) were accompanied by high rates (90 per cent plus). This picture may reflect the equally mediocre marital happiness ratings described below rather than any specifically sexual maladjustment.
Few incest offenders vs. minors reported many years of happy marriage (26 per cent, third smallest proportion) whereas 20 per cent, the second largest proportion of years, were very unhappy.2 The largest number of years, in absolute terms, were rated as moderately happy—a category wherein they rank third with 36 per cent, while the incest offenders vs. children rank second.
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