Ninety-seven per cent of the offenders vs. adults, the largest proportion recorded, had had premarital coitus. This experience also “built up” rather rapidly: by age twelve one third had had experience (the largest percentage recorded for this tender age); by age fourteen about 42 per cent (placing them fourth in rank-order); by age sixteen, 70 per cent; by age eighteen, 90 per cent (first in rank); and by age twenty, 94 per cent (again first in rank). It is interesting to note that the control-group individuals by age twenty had but 72 per cent of their members with premarital coital experience—scarcely more than the percentage the offenders vs. adults achieved by age sixteen.
In age-specific incidence, the offenders vs. adults display in general the highest figures. In age-period puberty-15 they rank second with slightly over half of their number involved in premarital coitus with companions. In the next age-period, 16-20, they again rank second with 88 per cent. In the successive periods they rank first in period 21-25 (89 per cent), third in period 26-30 (89 per cent), and second once more in period 31-35 (93 per cent). In age-specific incidence the importance of premarital commercial sexual relationships to these offenders is rather clear. In age-period 16-20 half of them had coitus with prostitutes; in age-period 21-25 this figure increased to two thirds (fourth in rank-order); in age-period 26-30 it increased to nearly three quarters (second in rank-order); and in the following period it dropped back to two thirds (again fourth place).
The heterosexual offenders vs. adults had premarital coitus more frequently than did the members of any other group. In total median frequencies of coitus combining experience with both companions and prostitutes they lead by unequivocal margins. Between puberty and age fifteen the average offender vs. adults had coitus 1.3 times per week; this frequency increased with age, ultimately to 2.1 per week between ages thirty-one to thirty-five. In contrast, the average control-group individual began with a frequency of 0.29 (i.e., once a week less than the offender vs. adults) and never exceeded 0.75 (3 times a month) at any age. In terms of mean frequency the offenders vs. adults make a less dramatic showing but are still clearly the most active insofar as premarital coitus is concerned.
They also rank high (first to sixth) in frequency of premarital coitus with prostitutes during various age-periods from puberty on, the average offender having such coitus 4 to 5 times a year prior to age twenty and 10 to 15 times a year up to age thirty. Nevertheless, the great emphasis was upon companions rather than prostitutes; relatively few (17 per cent) had their first coitus with a paid partner.
The average (median) offender had premarital coitus with 19 companions—the largest number recorded. He also purchased coitus from 11 prostitutes, a moderate number.
Naturally, the proportion of total outlet provided by premarital coitus with companions is correspondingly great. These offenders display the largest proportions in every age-period save one (when they ranked fourth), deriving from 46 to 67 per cent of their orgasms in this way. They are the only group with percentages in the 60s, and even the lower figure of their early teens surpasses that for the adults of most groups. Until twenty-five, the proportion of total outlet derived from premarital coitus with prostitutes was moderate, but thereafter the offenders vs. adults rank first in this respect. The increasing dependency upon commercial relationships with increasing age is a trend common to most groups; it occurs too early in life to be the result of deterioration in physical appearance. It seems to be simply a manifestation of the gradually increasing dislike that older males develop for having to go through a fairly lengthy and often expensive courtship ritual in order to obtain coitus.
Only an average or below-average number of offenders vs. adults reported that their premarital coitus had been substantially inhibited by various moral and social considerations. In fact, for nearly half of them the most common restraining factor seems to have been satiation: 48 per cent gave lack of interest as a prime reason for not having had more premarital coitus. The second most common (32 per cent) factor was, naturally, lack of opportunity; however, 32 per cent is the smallest proportion reported by any group. A rather large number cited fear of venereal disease as a retarding factor, but it is obvious that this was more a source of worry than an effective deterrent. The offenders vs. adults clearly illustrate a paradoxical sexual attitude that was common in our society and that is still common in Latin American culture: they had few moral scruples about having premarital coitus (only a little over a tenth of them reported substantial moral restraint), yet close to one fifth of them demanded that their future wives be virgins. They do not usually recognize their inconsistency.
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