HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. MINORS: EXTRAMARITAL AND POSTMARITAL COITUS
The premarital level of sexuality is mirrored in the situation after marriage when 65 per cent, again a relatively but not extremely large number, reported having had extramarital coitus.
The age-specific incidence of extramarital coitus with companions tends to decrease with age among these offenders, falling from a maximum of 56 per cent in age-period 16-20 to 32 per cent in age-period 41-45. This trend is, for a time, paralleled by their position in the rank-orders: starting in first place, they drop to fourth in age-period 21-25, and then to intermediate levels in age-periods 26-30 and 31-35, A resurgence of extramarital activity from thirty-six to forty, however, earns them first place once more, and in the next age-period, 41-45, they are in second place. The age-specific incidence of extramarital coitus with prostitutes is less complicated. The offenders vs. minors always rank high, usually in second or third place, in all age-periods. The proportion of single men who have coitus with prostitutes fluctuates very little from one age-period to another: it amounts to about one fourth except for a drop to 19 per cent (fifth rank) during the years from twenty-one to twenty-five.
On the average, these men had nine extramarital partners, a moderate percentage well above the control’s five but below prison’s ten. In proportion of total outlet constituted by extramarital coitus with companions these offenders rank high, frequently first or third, with as much as 10 per cent of their total orgasms derived in this way. They also rank rather high in the proportion of outlet obtained from extramarital coitus with prostitutes: after age thirty-five they are in the first rank for the next ten years.
Of those whose marriages broke up, 90 per cent or more of the younger offenders continued to have coitus, but by age-period 36-40 roughly one fifth had no coitus in that span of time: this is a relatively large figure. Those with coitus, however, had such activity rather more than average, in their teens and early twenties at twice per week and grading down to once per week (fourth in rank-order and below the control group) by age-period 41-45. Prior to age thirty a fair amount was with prostitutes (43 to 52 per cent having such commercial coitus), yet this contributed but 3 to 6 per cent of their total outlet because of the greater frequency of postmarital coitus with companions which provided three quarters or more of all their orgasms. After thirty the activity with prostitutes diminished and relatively few (37 to 29 per cent) continued with it, but it still provided 6 per cent of the total outlet for all these separated, divorced, or widowed offenders.
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