INCEST OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY

Mar
27
2009

INCEST OFFENDERS VS. ADULTS: HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY

The incest offenders vs. adults share with the incest offenders vs. minors the distinction of being the least homosexual of the various comparative groups. Only 12 per cent, the smallest proportion recorded, had any homosexual contacts either in or out of prison, and none solely within prison. Only one man reported any sexual arousal from thinking of or seeing members of the same sex, and this was not a strong arousal. Only this one individual had more than incidental homosexual activity, which we define as having had 21 or more homosexual contacts or more than five male partners. Note that in prepubertal life the future incest offenders vs. adults had little homosexual play.

In keeping with this record the accumulative incidence figures are low. The largest percentage (14 per cent) is seen by age fourteen, but as more individuals reached puberty at older ages the figure drops to 9 per cent by age sixteen and builds up to 12 per cent by age eighteen, which is as far as our calculation can be carried. In age-specific incidence one finds that only between puberty and fifteen did any offenders have homosexual activity, and then only few (8 per cent). Among the married males homosexual behavior was confined to the years from twenty-six to thirty-five when 5 per cent were involved. The proportion of total sexual outlet derived from homosexual behavior is minimal, never exceeding 1 per cent; in no other group was homosexuality quantitatively less important.

Like the incest offenders vs. minors, the incest offenders vs. adults strongly disapproved of male homosexuality, ranking third in this respect, with three quarters reporting disapproval as against 6 per cent who approved.

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