HETEROSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. MINORS: MARRIAGE
Nearly 62 per cent of the offenders vs. minors had married before they contributed their case histories, the average individual having married at age twenty-one. The accumulative incidence figures show that by forty-five some 84 per cent of the offenders vs. minors had married. These married men had spent 41 per cent of their lives after puberty as husbands—a moderate proportion and one very similar to that of the other heterosexual offenders. They were, however, much more monogamous than the offenders vs. children: nearly two thirds had married only once, a moderate proportion. They were not distinctive in the number of brief marriages that ended in separation or divorce.
On the other hand, they had known their future wives for a relatively long time prior to marriage, and about half a year longer than the average offender vs. children. Actually, the offenders vs. minors share with the homosexual offenders vs. children the honor of the longest prenuptial acquaintance of all sex offenders; only the control group surpasses these two.
About half had had premarital coitus with the women they eventually married and only a moderate percentage of the women marched pregnant to the altar. This same reproductive moderation is again seen after marriage: there were 16 children born for every ten offenders vs. minors. Since the average married offender vs. minors was thirty-three years old at the time of interview, additional children can be expected.
There is nothing distinctive about this group of men so far as the time spent in precoital petting in marriage is concerned, but in the techniques they used they do appear apart from others. The married as well as the single men were averse to mouth-genital contact. Eighty-five per cent, the largest proportion of any group, had never had mouth-genital contact in marriage. As we have previously pointed out, this evident aversion to mouth-genital contact may well be partly a result of our sampling—the great majority of our offenders vs. minors and adults came from one institution and are more rural and less educated than most other sex offenders; these characteristics are usually associated with lesser incidence of mouth-genital contact.
A similar conservatism in coital technique is seen in a study of coital positions: 25 per cent of the offenders vs. minors, a rather large proportion, had never employed any but the usual female-supine male-prone position in marriage. An even stronger indication of conservatism is the fact that only 3 per cent had ever had anal coitus with their wives— this is the second smallest percentage recorded, even less than that of the control group.
While the offenders vs. minors displayed rather extensive premarital sexual lives, their frequencies of marital coitus are, by and large, moderate. The average (median) offender vs. minors began with a marital coital frequency of 2.8 per week in age-period 16-20, a frequency that declined to 1.75 by age-period 36-40. These figures are less than those of the control group. The proportion of total sexual outlet derived from marital coitus is also moderate, ranging from 80 to 90 per cent.
Insofar as the wife’s sexual satisfaction was concerned, the offenders vs. minors claimed a rather good record, according to their possibly optimistic report. Some 62 per cent of the years of marriage found the wives experiencing orgasm 90 per cent or more of the time—only three of our usual 16 comparative groups exceed this figure.
When asked to rate their marriages in terms of happiness, the offenders vs. minors gave a good but not glowing report. They stated that 46 per cent (fourth largest) of their years of marriage were very happy; 26 per cent (relatively few) were moderately happy; 18 per cent (a moderate proportion compared to other groups) of the years were rather unhappy; and few (10 per cent) were very unhappy years.
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