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) of the offenders vs. minors ever masturbated more than a dozen times in any one week of their lives. This figure is below that of the control group (6 per cent) and far below that of the majority of the sex-offender groups. In a rank-order of the percentages whose maximum frequency was once to twice a week, the three incest-offender groups rank second, third (the offenders vs. minors), and fourth.
Like the other incest offenders, the incest offenders vs. minors display low frequencies of premarital masturbation; they had the second lowest median frequency from puberty up to age twenty-five (about once in three weeks to 3 times a month) which is as far as our data on premarital masturbation can be analyzed. Their mean frequency is always third or fourth lowest. The married incest offenders vs. minors also, in general, rank low; in fact, from age twenty-six on the average married individual exhibits the lowest frequencies (4 to 5 a year) of any of our groups. The average (mean) frequencies are not so dramatic, but are still on the low side.
The proportion of total outlet (total orgasms) derived from masturbation was ordinarily moderate for both the married and never married. However, in their early teens these incest offenders ranked third with 80 per cent of their outlet from masturbation. The incest offenders vs. adult daughters, it should be noted, ranked second.
The masturbatory fantasy of the incest offender vs. minors differs from that of other sex offenders in two respects. First, fewer of them fantasied than any other type of offender: some 18 per cent reported that they never had done so. Second, like the other incest offenders, very few had homosexual fantasies. The general lack of fantasy is in accord with the minimal conscious psychological response to visual sexual stimuli reported by these men.
Of all the types of sex offenders, the incest offenders vs. minors were least concerned over the possible ill-effects of masturbation. In only 25 per cent of the years during which masturbation occurred was there concomitant worry; this figure is less than half of that of the incest offenders vs. adults, who worried more than any group. Their lack of concern is in keeping with their tendency to minimize masturbation; it may be recalled that few of them masturbated before puberty and that thereafter the number who masturbated in any given age-period was relatively small.
A relatively large proportion (one third) of these offenders learned of masturbation from talking or reading, but only average numbers obtained this knowledge from other sources—observation, being masturbated, and self-discovery.
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