Being less homosexually oriented than other homosexual offenders, more of the homosexual offenders vs. children married—47 per cent, a small proportion compared with the sex offenders against females. On the basis of the accumulative incidence data one can predict, however, that ultimately nearly two thirds would marry, but this is still a comparatively small number. The average (median) homosexual offender vs. children married at age twenty-five, the oldest age of all except for the homosexual offender vs. minors.
A somewhat small number (56 per cent) had married only once while a relatively large (36 per cent) proportion had married twice. The homosexual offender vs. children, if his first marriage failed, was more inclined to try again than were the other homosexual offenders. However, all homosexual offenders have a common tendency toward at least one brief marriage: the homosexual offenders vs. children rank third in this regard, with 40 per cent of them having had one marriage that broke up in two years or less; the homosexual offenders vs. adults rank second (41 per cent), and the homosexual offenders vs. minors fifth (37 per cent).
The average (median) homosexual offender vs. children had known his future wife slightly over nine months before he married her—the second longest acquaintance reported by any, but still far less than the control group’s more than 16 months.
Some 58 per cent had coitus with their future wives, a moderate proportion, and the number of resultant pregnant brides was likewise moderate. However, relatively few children were born within marriage —only about 14 children per ten couples, yet this feeble showing is lush fecundity compared with the other homosexual offenders.
There is nothing noteworthy about the foreplay and coital techniques employed by the homosexual offenders vs. children. They show a tendency toward brief foreplay (41 per cent averaged three minutes or less). While some clinicians and laymen have regarded mouth-genital contact and anal coitus as being somehow inherently homosexual techniques, the homosexual offenders vs. children show no undue emphasis on these activities in their marriages. In fact, a certain restraint is evident, and these offenders are frequently very similar to the control group in terms of percentages.
In taking a group known to have a strong homosexual component and selecting only those who married, one thereby tends to divide the group into: (1) the never married and more homosexual, and (2) the married and less homosexual. This dichotomy can produce some conflicting data, as we shall see in the case of the homosexual offenders vs. minors and adults. Since of the three homosexual-offender groups the offenders vs. children were the least homosexually oriented, one would expect their frequencies of marital coitus to exceed those of other homosexual offenders. Actually, however, the average (median) homosexual offender vs. children has the lowest frequencies of any group: he occupies either the bottom or next to the bottommost position in five of die six rank-orders extending from age sixteen to age forty-five. Moreover, he is the only individual whose frequencies never exceed 2.12 per week.
The mean frequencies are erratic but generally higher: the homosexual offenders vs. children rise to intermediate rank by age thirty, and inexplicably to second place at age-period 36-40 with a marked absolute as well as relative increase in coital frequency. Obviously these offenders include a minority of heterosexually quite active persons, as age-period 36-40 dramatically illustrates, the median being the lowest (1.42 per week) and the mean the second highest (3.40 per week).
Marital coitus accounted for a moderate proportion (84—88 per cent) of the total sexual outlet of these offenders at ages prior to forty-one. In age-period 41-45, however, the proportion shrivels to 58 per cent—the smallest recorded. This unexpected decrease seems not so much due to any blossoming of nonmarital activity as to a reduction in the frequency of marital coitus: before age forty-one one finds several men with more than daily coitus with their wives, but in age-period 41-45 only one such male exists and the average frequencies, both mean and median, correspondingly decrease.
The married men reported that nearly one fifth of their years of marriage were marked by low orgasm rates (orgasm only once or even less in ten acts of coitus) on the part of their wives; only one other group spent more of married life with such low rates. On the other hand, about 58 per cent (a moderate figure compared to the others) of the married years were accompanied by high orgasm rates—orgasm 9 or more times out of 10.
Analysis of the marital happiness ratings reported by the homosexual offenders vs. children indicates that they fall chiefly in two categories: very happy (43 per cent of the years of marriage, a high-intermediate figure) and rather unhappy (25 per cent, a high figure); only 15-17 per cent are found in the other two categories. All in all, like other homosexual offenders, they have marriages of average happiness compared to other sex offenders.
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