By the time of interview, when the average (median) homosexual offender vs. adults was between thirty-two and thirty-three years old, only 70 per cent had had heterosexual coitus—the smallest proportion reported by any of the groups being compared. Similarly, only 67 per cent had had premarital coitus, and, with two exceptions, this group has the fewest experienced individuals by any given age.
The exceptions just mentioned consist of the percentage with premarital coitus very early in postpubertal life. By age twelve nearly 11 per cent, a relatively moderate proportion, had had coitus. By age fourteen some 14 per cent—the next smallest proportion on record-were thus experienced. Thereafter by any age the homosexual offenders vs. adults display the smallest percentages. As a dramatic example, by age twenty less than half had had coitus, in contrast to nearly three quarters of the control group and nine tenths of the prison group.
These offenders had, in general, fewer individuals than any other group having premarital coitus with companions within any five-year age-period. They are at the bottom of every rank-order, except between puberty and fifteen when they are second from the bottom. From age sixteen on, only one third to two fifths of these men had premarital coitus with companions in any age-period.
Of all the groups, the homosexual offenders vs. adults had the smallest proportions of men who had premarital coitus with prostitutes during any age-period after age fifteen; only between one fifth and one quarter were thus involved in age-periods 16-20 and 21-25, and thereafter the proportions decline to about 16 per cent. During this same period the equivalent figures for the control group were between two fifths and one half.
Similarly, fewer homosexual offenders vs. adults than any other group ever had premarital coitus with female prostitutes (37 per cent). The three homosexual groups and the control group occupy four of the last five positions in this rank-order. In the lifetime accumulative incidence table the percentage of individuals with experience by a given age, the homosexual offenders vs. adults invariably display the lowest figures. By age twenty-six, when even 62 per cent of the relatively restrained control group had had coitus with prostitutes, the figure for the homosexual offenders vs. adults is only 36 per cent.
As one would anticipate, the homosexual offenders vs. adults have the lowest frequencies of premarital coitus with companions in any age-period. The average (median) frequencies vary from 0.09 to 0.22 per week among those having such coitus.
Among those who had premarital coitus with prostitutes, the frequency was low; the average (median) individual displayed frequencies of from 0.08 to 0.12 (i.e., 4 to 6 times per year), which are ordinarily far less than those of the control group.
Confining attention to only those individuals with coital experience and calculating the median number of premarital partners, the homosexual offenders vs. adults are seen to have had the second fewest companions (five) and the fewest prostitutes (also five).
In keeping with the minimal frequencies, the proportion of total outlet derived from premarital coitus with companions is the smallest of any recorded. In several instances the percentages are half (or less) that of the nearest group, and never exceed 5 per cent. This is an impressively small figure when one recalls that most groups were deriving 25 per cent or more of their total orgasms in this way. Among these unmarried homosexual offenders vs. adults the difference between the number of orgasms obtained from coitus with companions and the number that occurred during sleep is often small; indeed, in age-period 21-25 each source contributed 4 per cent to the total.
It is no surprise to find that the proportion of total sexual outlet comprised by premarital coitus with prostitutes is smaller for the homosexual offenders vs. adults than for any other group, never exceeding 1 per cent.
Of the various deterrents to premarital coitus, only one was strongly influential with the homosexual offenders vs. adults: lack of interest. Seventy-seven per cent, over half again as much as the percentage of any group not convicted for a homosexual offense, reported that their premarital coitus had been seriously impeded by a lack of interest in having such coitus. Some 37 per cent (next to lowest in rank-order) claimed lack of opportunity as a major factor, and a somewhat small proportion listed moral considerations and fear of possible consequences. At this juncture we should point out that a substantial part of our sample of homosexual offenders vs. adults was drawn from homosexual cliques or, in one instance, from a formal homosexual organization. Consequently, the sample contains more individuals of exclusive or near exclusive homosexuality than would be true had we sampled only prison inmates.
The relative disinterest in coitus and the general homosexual orientation is again revealed in the evaluations made by the men of their initial coitus. Some 21 per cent, the largest proportion recorded, reported that they did not enjoy their first coitus, while 53 per cent, the second smallest proportion, stated that they enjoyed it strongly.
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