INCEST OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: SUMMARY

Friday, March 27th, 2009 | Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction

The incest offenders vs. adults came from large families, were liberally endowed with sisters, and got along very well with both parents. Prior to puberty they had few friends of either gender and were the least active sexually of any group. This characteristic of minimal sexual activity earned over into postpubertal life: the incidences and frequencies of masturbation and nocturnal emissions are low. Similarly they did little petting until just before marriage. While prevented to an unusual degree from having premarital coitus by their moral feelings and by their concern with public opinion, these men subscribed to the double standard: they wanted a virgin bride, often avoided coitus with their fianc?e, and turned to prostitutes for their sexual gratification. The numbers of their nonprostitute petting and coital partners were relatively small, and their sexual techniques were also quite limited.

After marriage they still remained somewhat restrained in terms of techniques and coital frequency, but they were quite fertile. In their middle thirties extramarital coitus became more important, and they began to take an interest in mouth-genital contact.

They were the least homosexual of any group and strongly disapproved of homosexuality. They were also the least criminal, and few could be called alcoholics.

All in all, these men may be described as conservative, moralistic, restrained, religiously devout, traditional, and uneducated. They were also the least responsive of any group to visual or fantasy stimuli. From the foregoing these men would seem unlikely to commit sex offenses, but they also seem to have been impulsive and given to rather disorganized lives that were complicated, in some cases, by drinking. Many of them came from a cultural background wherein sexual morality was publicly emphasized but privately breached with relative impunity. Given such a situation it is easy to see how an inhibited male with poor control of his impulses might not only break a sexual taboo but would be likely to keep his lapse within the secrecy of the family group.