SEXUAL BEHAVIOR: GENERAL ATTACK.
A general physical attack—not sexual in its outward form, but apparently with a sexual basis—was reported only in the heterosexual aggression cases, and even here the incidence was not high. It happened in about an eighth of the aggression offenses against adult females and half of that in the other two aggression groups. In several of these cases the aggressor first made verbal overtures to a woman who was a stranger, and upon being turned down, started to use physical force, often grabbing, striking, or jostling her, and not infrequently knocking her down and choking her. The victim’s cries generally frightened him away, but often not until after considerable injury had been inflicted. In two instances the aggressor admitted that the physical struggle with his victim was his chief source of erotic arousal, and that he sought orgasm by this means rather than by forcing coitus. In other cases the attack was on a woman known to the offender, and grew out of a quarrel over sexual matters. Usually this involved her refusal of either coitus or mouth-genital contact, but in one instance it was triggered when an offender with a strong foot fetish asked a young woman to take off her shoes. She resisted his efforts to make her comply, there was a struggle, she ran but was caught, thrown to the ground, and choked severely.
Homosexual offenses. In a sizable proportion of the homosexual offenses there was no actual physical contact between the offender and the object of his offense, as was explained earlier. These were usually cases in which sexual overtures were made, but further action was blocked by the recipient or by an onlooker, who in most cases was actually a police officer out of uniform.
These noncontact offenses have been combined with the contact offenses, in contrast to our practice of separating such categories of heterosexual offenses, for two reasons: first, there is every likelihood that the men would have gone on to a contact offense if they had not been interrupted. This is not so true of the heterosexual noncontact offenses. Secondly, all homosexual solicitation is an offense in itself, whereas this is not true of a heterosexual approach, although it sometimes results in arrest. The noncontact homosexual approaches totaled over a fifth of the offenses involving two adult males, dropped to 11 per cent in the offenses against minors, and represented only 3 per cent in the cases where the homosexual approach was to a boy under eleven.
While over a fourth of the homosexual offenses with minors and adults consisted of nongenital or manual-genital petting, the remainder progressed to oral or anal contacts. In contrast, in the offenses with children, this kind of petting constituted well over half of the offenses. The difference is accounted for under the subheading of manual-genital petting, since nongenital petting shows virtually no variation among the three age groups. When minor and adult males are the partners, fellation (mouth-genital contact) is apparently most likely to occur. Anal intercourse, considered by many as a sine qua non in homosexual offenses, appears to play a comparatively minor role, ranging from 6 to 14 per cent. It is possible, of course, that it occurred in some additional offenses but was not included in the specific charges which were filed.
In comparing these homosexual offenses to the heterosexual groups discussed earlier, one can note a number of similarities in the sexual techniques used. They would include such behavior as nongenital and genital petting and mouth-genital contacts. In fact, one heterosexual group, that of incest offenses vs. children eleven or under, actually exceeded the parallel homosexual group in the degree to which mouth-genital behavior occurred.
In summary it can be said that:
Sexual offenses that can bring conviction show a wide range of behavior ranging from no physical contact to oral and anal techniques and rape.
Coitus or attempted coitus is the usual offense against minor and adult females. The incidence here is two thirds or more in the non-aggression, aggression, and incest classifications.
The use of force is positively related to the completion of coitus in the offenses against children and negatively related in the offenses against minor and adult females.
General petting behavior, and more particularly genital touching and genital-oral contacts, predominate in offenses involving children, especially in the nonforce and incest types of offenses.
Preferred sexual techniques in homosexual offenses vary according to the age of the sexual partner; manual-genital petting predominates in the offenses with the youngest boys, and mouth-genital contacts with the two older groups.
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