HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: ANIMAL CONTACTS
Despite the fact that our sample of homosexual offenders vs. adults comprises our most urban group they rank third in the proportion-almost one quarter—who had specifically sexual contact with animals.
The contacts seem to have been rather well distributed through earlier life rather than concentrated, since in age-specific incidence these offenders rank no higher than fifth until age-period 26-30 when their 3 per cent earns them fourth rank. Their maximum was 11 per cent (as is usual in the puberty to age fifteen period), with a subsequent gradual decrease to 3.
About 5 per cent had dreamed of such activity, and while this is a small number in absolute terms, it is the second largest number reported (the homosexual offenders vs. children, interestingly enough, rank first). A relatively and absolutely small number reported having fantasies of animals during self-masturbation. This minor conflict of data is inconsequential—too few persons have a well-developed sexual interest in animals to make it a useful tool in analyzing different sorts of sex offenders.
As we have stated previously, we regard much animal contact as a form of self-masturbation. While the masturbation frequencies of the homosexual offenders vs. adults were extremely high, the frequencies of animal contact were moderate. Animal contact is so uncommon that its frequency can be calculated for only some of our comparative groups and only for the years between puberty and age twenty. In such calculations of frequency among those having such activity, the homosexual offenders vs. adults reveal the lowest frequencies. For example, between sixteen and twenty the average (median) individual had 3.5 animal contacts a year in comparison with the 4 for the prison and heterosexual offenders vs. minors, the 9 for die heterosexual offenders vs. children, and the nearly 19 for the control group. As a matter of fact, the high frequency of animal contact in the control group is due to two aberrant individuals.
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