EXHIBITIONISTS: EXTRAMARITAL AND POST/MARITAL COITUS

Of those who married, 52 per cent had extramarital coitus, which places them in a low-intermediate position in the rank-order, just above the peepers. In the case of the latter, the youthfulness of the sample was a factor in the paucity of extramarital coitus, but this cannot be true in the case of the exhibitionists whose average (median) age is nearly thirty-five. The age-specific incidence figures for extramarital coitus with companions are always moderate, though well above those of the control group. From ages twenty-one to forty-five, between 31 and 37 per cent of the exhibitionists were having such coitus within any five-year age-period. Aside from one aberrant figure based on a small number of cases in age-period 41-45, the age-specific incidence for extramarital coitus with prostitutes is similarly moderate, holding between 14 and 17 per cent. The frequencies of extramarital coitus tend to be low or intermediate except from thirty-one to thirty-five; where one high-rating individual strongly affects the mean frequency. There is a strong emphasis on prostitution; these men had extramarital coitus with prostitutes almost as often as with companions. The average (median) exhibitionist who had extramarital coitus had it with five females—a moderate number and the same as that recorded for the control group. The proportion of total sexual outlet constituted by extramarital coitus with companions parallels what we have seen in frequencies: it is rather small (usually 1 to 3 per cent, except in age-period 31-35 when the effect of the one deviant individual is felt. The proportion of total outlet derived from extramarital coitus with prostitutes reflects the importance of commercial sex to these offenders— I hey manifest relatively large proportions, usually ranking first or second, just below or just above the prison group.

The exhibitionists whose marriages broke up continued to have coitus in a high percentage of cases; indeed, between ages thirty-one and forty all the separated, divorced, or widowed exhibitionists had post-marital coitus. The frequency, however, tended to be low. This combination of high incidence and low frequency results in their having derived moderate proportions of their total outlet from postmarital coitus. The difference between coitus with companions and with prostitutes is especially important here: the proportion of outlet derived from companions is moderate up to age thirty-five (61 per cent, declining to 46 per cent) but small thereafter (16-24 per cent); the proportion derived from prostitutes is always relatively large, in fact, the exhibitionists rank first to third, and the figures increase progressively with age from 4 per cent between twenty-one and twenty-five to 57 per cent between forty-one and forty-five. This same emphasis on commercial sex in later life is seen in age-specific incidence of post-marital coitus with prostitutes, in which the exhibitionists rank first from age thirty-one on, with a figure of from 67 to 90 per cent having such activity in a given period.

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