INCEST OFFENDERS VS. CHILDREN: MARRIAGE

Posted in Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction on March 27th, 2009

The average incest offender vs. children married shortly after his twenty-fourth birthday, rather belatedly compared to the prison group and most other sex-offender groups, but similar to the control group. About three fifths, a moderate proportion, had married once; nearly one third, a relatively large number, had married twice; and only a few had more marriages. Like all incest offenders and like the control group, the incest offenders vs. children tended to have marriages of substantial duration; relatively few lasted only two years or less.

Slightly more than two thirds had coitus with their future (first) wives before marriage; this is the second largest proportion found among the comparative groups. Not surprisingly, they account for the fourth largest proportion of pregnant brides.

The incest offenders are our most fertile groups by far. The average incest offender vs. adults had five children, the incest offender vs. children three. In comparison the remaining groups are singularly infertile.

Turning to the more explicitly sexual aspects of marriage, we find that the incest offenders vs. children were inclined toward protracted precoital petting: nearly one third (third in rank-order) of them customarily spent half an hour or more in such activity. Correspondingly few reported brief foreplay. This dalliance is not typical of the other incest offenders.

Mouth-genital contact was an important technique in the marriages of the incest offenders vs. children as it had been in their nonmarital lives. More of them had experience in mouth-genital contact with their wives (some two thirds) than any other group. Three fifths had had both fellation and cunnilingus—again the largest percentage recorded. This emphasis on oral technique sets the incest offenders vs. children sharply apart from other incest offenders.

While the average incest offender vs. children ranks third and second in frequency of marital coitus in age-periods 16-20 and 21-25, he falls in rank-order thereafter, ultimately ranking next to lowest in age-period 36-40.

Since incest offenders as a whole tend to have low to intermediate frequencies of marital coitus, the incest offenders vs. children are aberrant only in having high frequencies (median) in their teens and early twenties. Note that from age twenty-six on, in the calculation of medians, the incest offenders vs. children are invariably adjacent to the incest offenders vs. minors in the rank-orders.

The tendency of incest offenders to have low or intermediate frequencies is seen in the mean frequencies of the incest offenders vs. children; in every age-period they occupy intermediate positions in the rank-orders, but always in the lower half. While less evident than in the case of the median frequencies, there is a tendency for the incest offenders vs. minors and incest offenders vs. children to be adjacent or near in the rank-orders.

The proportion of total sexual outlet constituted by marital coitus is always moderate, ranging from 81 to 91 per cent, the percentage decreasing with age.

Since the incest offenders vs. children so readily breached the taboo on mouth-genital contact, it is no surprise to find them highly tolerant of other techniques. More of them (95 per cent) than any other group had used coital positions other than the conventional one. Also the largest proportion (26 per cent) had had anal coitus with their wives.

When asked to evaluate the happiness of their marriages, they gave some curious answers. Only 15 per cent of their marital years, by far the fewest of any group, were very happy. This paucity of years in the very happy category permits the incest offenders vs. children to rank high in the other three categories of marital happiness: 39 per cent (first in rank) of the years moderately happy, 29 per cent (second) rather unhappy, and 17 per cent (fifth) very unhappy. In general it appears that these offenders are concentrated in the middle area—the moderately happy and rather unhappy categories—and only a few experienced the extremes of marital joy or sorrow. At the time of the beginning of the incestuous behavior, however, about two thirds of the offenders rated their marriages as rather unhappy or very unhappy.

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