INCEST OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: ANIMAL CONTACTS
One might anticipate a relatively high incidence and frequency of sexual activity with animals among the incest” offenders vs. adults, since they are by far the most rural of our comparative groups and the most restrained in their sexual activity with humans. Such expectation is shaken when one learns that a rather small proportion, about one eighth, had sexual contact with animals. However, the age-specific incidence of animal contact among single males is somewhat high: these offenders rank third between puberty and age fifteen with 13 per cent, fourth in age-period 16-20 with 8 per cent, and second in age-period 21-25 with 7 per cent.
Those unmarried males who had such activity had it with relatively high frequencies; in consequence these offenders rank first in proportion of total outlet derived from animal contact. Indeed, in age-periods puberty-15 when 8.1 per cent of all orgasms came from this source, 16-20 when the figure is 5.2, and 21-25 (1.8 per cent) the quantitative importance of contact with animals far outweighs the contact with human males. In the youngest age-period the orgasms from animals even numerically exceed the orgasms in sleep. None reported dreams about animal contact.
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