HETEROSEXUAL AGGRESSORS VS. CHILDREN: MASTURBATION
Although as a group the heterosexual aggressors vs. children reached puberty late, the median age at which postpubertal masturbation began is not significantly different from the medians of other groups. A large proportion (92 to 96 per cent) of the single males among these particular sex offenders masturbated in their teens, and a moderate proportion (75 per cent) later.
With regard to the frequency of masturbation before marriage, we cannot give trustworthy data beyond age twenty for the aggressors vs. children, since they number so few. The masturbatory frequency of the average (median) aggressor vs. children can be termed intermediate both at puberty to fifteen, when it was once a week, and from sixteen to twenty when it was once every two weeks—both frequencies being less than those of the control group.
Sample size also precludes effective computation of masturbatory frequencies of married aggressors vs. children, which in turn prevents our determining the percentage of total outlet (total number of orgasms) derived from masturbation.
Among the never married the percentage of total outlet constituted by masturbation varies erratically from age-period to age-period up to age twenty-five, beyond which calculations cannot be made. The aggressors vs. children rank first during the years from puberty to fifteen, when 90 per cent of their orgasms were self-induced; from sixteen to twenty the percentage is moderate (49 per cent); and from twenty-one to twenty-five they again rank first with two thirds of their outlet coming from masturbation. The influence of one atypical individual is only too clearly seen. Nevertheless, the generally large proportions of total outlet derived in early premarital life from masturbation suggest heterosexual difficulties, which we shall later see again reflected in the small proportion of total outlet derived from premarital coitus. A second aspect concerns masturbation fantasy: a larger proportion of aggressors vs. children had fantasied than in any other group except the other aggressor groups. This tendency toward fantasy characterizes all the aggressors. In connection with this it is noteworthy that these aggressors were rather responsive to psychic and visual stimuli—some 88 per cent reported sexual arousal from thinking of or seeing females, a proportion exceeded by only three groups, one of which is the aggressors vs. minors. Yet, on the other hand, these men were curiously immune to pornography: half said it did not sexually arouse them. Strangely enough, no aggressor vs. children reported having any sadistic or masochistic fantasies, whereas the other aggressors rated first and second, as one would anticipate. This absence is all the more striking since, like all aggressors, a relatively large percentage (12 per cent) of the aggressors vs. children reported that sadomasochistic stories or pictures aroused them sexually. As a whole, they are a deteriorated alcoholic group, and it may be that, unlike the other aggressors, their behavior is simply disorganized, rather than motivated by aggressive sadistic impulses. The aggressors vs. children show nothing distinctive in other classes of fantasy except that none reported bizarre fantasies.
The aggressors vs. children worried more than an average amount over masturbation, reporting that in nearly half of the years during which they masturbated there was accompanying anxiety. This percentage, which is the fourth largest, is shared by the aggressors vs. minors. The aggressors vs. adults reported a percentage of 44, and hence one can generalize that all aggressors have above-average concern about masturbation. It is interesting that in spite of (or because of?) their concern, they tend to have masturbated more often in any one week then other offenders.
A study of how the aggressors vs. children first learned of masturbation reveals that no less than 48 per cent, the second highest percentage recorded, learned by observing others, talking, or reading. A very few learned through being masturbated by another person. The importance of observation and talk as a. source of information fits well with the fact that these aggressors reached puberty rather late and also had a good relationship with their peers. Thus they would see or hear about the activity before they were physiologically motivated to attempt it.
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