Eighty-four per cent of the homosexual offenders vs. minors had nocturnal emissions, which places them sixth in rank-order, below the control and prison groups. In terms of age-specific incidence the single offenders display moderately high figures until age thirty, after which they have low percentages. The married, on the other hand, reveal variable percentages. During age-period 21-25 they rank lowest with 29 per cent, but in age-period 31-35 they rank second with 50 per cent. We doubt the validity of this sudden leap, particularly because in the following age-period (36-40) the percentage falls back to its former moderate level. As we stated earlier, the difference between the married and unmarried in incidence of nocturnal orgasm is particularly marked among homosexual offenders.
The average (median) homosexual offender vs. minors who had nocturnal emissions had them with a frequency of 4 to 5 times a year prior to marriage. These frequencies are shared by most other offenders, but are markedly less than those of the control group. Calculating the average (mean) frequencies, however, one finds the homosexual offenders vs. minors consistently ranking third to fourth with frequencies of once to nearly twice a month—nearer, but still less, than those of the control group.
While the offenders vs. minors parallel the homosexual offenders vs. adults in having a high percentage (71 per cent) who had homosexual dreams (the homosexual offenders rank first, second, and third in this respect), they are unlike them as far as heterosexual dreams are concerned. Some 88 per cent had heterosexual dreams, a figure that is similar to that of the homosexual offenders vs. children and far beyond the 63 per cent of the homosexual offenders vs. adults. About 3 per cent dreamed of sexual contact with animals—a small number, but sufficient to place them in fourth rank. This deserves notice only because the other homosexual offenders rank first and second in this respect.
The proportion of total outlet afforded by nocturnal emissions is moderate for the unmarried until age thirty; thereafter the proportion increases markedly until these homosexual offenders vs. minors rank first or second from age thirty-one on. In age-periods 31-35 and 36-40 they show the same or nearly the same proportions as the control group (12-13 per cent), but in age-period 41-45 the offenders far surpass the control-group members. However, this condition is due to the high frequency of one individual; were it not for him the figures for the two groups would be more nearly equal. Among the married homosexual offenders vs. minors the proportion of total outlet constituted by nocturnal emissions is quite small (1 per cent) until age thirty, but then increases until in age-period 36-40 they rank third with 6 per cent. We have no data for them at older ages.
In postmarital life the proportions are at first moderate but between thirty-one and thirty-five the figure increases to nearly 17 per cent—an extremely large percentage surpassing even the comparable premarital level. In the next age-period the figure falls to 11 per cent.
The homosexual offenders vs. minors are one of the two groups who show an increase with age in the proportion of total outlet from nocturnal emissions regardless of marital status. Among the unmarried the increase is from 3 per cent in the early teens to 19 per cent in the early forties; among the married it is from 1 per cent in the early twenties to 6 per cent in the late thirties; and among the separated, divorced, and widowed, the increase is from 6 per cent in the late twenties to 17 per cent in the late thirties. At present we have no explanation for this increase.
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