By far the commonest variety of offender, comprising slightly over half of all our cases, is the pedophile. We include under this term not only males who prefer children, but also those who, while preferring older persons, nevertheless find children sexually desirable. The great majority of pedophiles were attracted only by male children, but a [...]
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There is nothing significant in the proportion of incest offenders vs. minors who ever masturbated, or in the age-specific incidence figures among the single males. A relatively large proportion of the married, however—roughly half to two fifths—continued to masturbate throughout the years from thirty-one to forty.
Like the other incest offenders, very few (3 per cent) [...]
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Of all the heterosexual aggressors, the aggressors vs. minors had the most homosexual contact after puberty with other males, and they also derived the most arousal from thinking of or seeing other males. In both respects they rank second only to the homosexual offenders. Moreover, 15 per cent reported that the arousal was strong—and 15 [...]
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Like the offenders vs. children, the heterosexual offenders vs. minors display no salient characteristics in their homosexual experience. Nearly 40 per cent had had physical sexual contact with another male since puberty, six percentage points more than the figure reported by the control group. Thirty-six per cent had such experience outside of prison—a somewhat small [...]
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Since the essence of this study is comparison, virtually all our final statistics were at some stage in the analysis rank-ordered—that is, arranged in order in some scale of comparison. The value of a rank-order depends, of course, upon the range of variation; the smaller the range, the less useful is the rank-order. For example, [...]