HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: HETEROSEXUAL PETTING
Some 93 per cent of the homosexual offenders vs. minors had had premarital heterosexual petting experience, the median individual having had his first postpubertal experience at the rather early age of 14.9 years.
The age-specific incidence of petting after age fifteen is low: within age-period 16-20 the percentage is next to the lowest (82 per cent). It is significant that during these years the homosexual offenders occupy the three lowest positions in the rank-order of percentages. In age-period 21-25 the homosexual offenders vs. minors again have the next to lowest percentage of individuals involved in petting (80 per cent).
The accumulative incidence—the proportion with petting experience by a given age—shows a rather similar picture. By age twelve the homosexual offenders vs. minors fall in the lower part of the rank-order; by age fourteen and thereafter they occupy intermediate to low-intermediate positions.
A moderate proportion (ultimately nearly a third) of homosexual offenders vs. minors reached orgasm in premarital petting, but they did so with only moderate to low frequencies, ranging from about 6 to 10 times per year (mean frequency). One may recall that the homosexual offenders vs. children displayed even lower frequencies, but it should not be assumed that petting to orgasm is rare among homosexual offenders until the homosexual offenders vs. adults have been examined.
The age-specific incidence of petting to orgasm was moderate in all age-periods, reaching its maximum of 27 per cent in age-period 16-20 and declining to 16 per cent in age-period 31-35.
Nine per cent had no female petting partners, a figure exceeded only by two groups, the homosexual offenders vs. adults and the peepers. Examination of the percentages with various numbers of partners (one, two to five, six to ten, etc., up to 101 plus), shows that the homosexual offenders vs. minors tend to occupy middle positions in the rank-orders. The largest percentage (18 per cent) had from 11 to 20 partners, the highest modal category of any of the homosexual offenders. By and large the percentages of the homosexual offenders vs. minors are similar to those of the control group in the categories beyond two to five partners.
The heterosexual adjustment of the homosexual offenders vs. minors is something of a puzzle. We have seen that in preadolescence, at ages ten to eleven, they had an excellent socialization with girls and a relatively abundant amount of sex play with them. This auspicious beginning seems to have deteriorated subsequently, for at ages sixteen and seventeen they reported having had comparatively few female friends and companions—fewer even than the other homosexual offenders. This lack of interest in or unpopularity with females is reflected in the relatively large number who had never petted. However, those who did pet had a moderate number of partners.
The conflict of homosexuality and heterosexuality is also apparent in a study of their petting techniques. Of those who had petted, 80 per cent had never placed their mouths on female genitalia, the third largest “never” percentage recorded. This is partly because so few-only about a third—of the homosexual offenders vs. minors married. Nevertheless, only a small number of the married males had cunnilingus with their wives (20 per cent) or with extramarital and postmarital partners (7 per cent). In terms of cunnilingus with premarital partners, the homosexual offenders vs. minors have a middle status (15 per cent), as do the other homosexual offenders.
However, with reference to fellation the homosexual offenders vs. minors occupy middle positions in the rank-orders, half having had the experience.
Some people have considered heterosexual mouth-genital contact a form of behavior indicative of homosexuality, but it is clear that this belief is erroneous.
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