PATTERNED OFFENDERS: SUMMARY
In comparison to the incidental offenders the patterned offenders had a less favorable background: their parents did not get along well nor did they get along well with either parent. Possibly seeking emotional gratification elsewhere, more of the patterned than incidental offenders had prepubertal sex play, both hetero- and homosexual.
After puberty, inhibitions and worries over sex seem to have developed more markedly among the patterned offenders. They worried more about masturbation, they were more deterred from having coitus by moral considerations and by fear of disclosure, and they had premarital coitus with fewer companions and prostitutes.
At the same time, and to some degree possibly as a consequence of lesser activity and more restraint, the patterned offenders developed a greater responsiveness to the sight and thought of females and also became preoccupied with the more esoteric aspects of sex. Their dream content and their masturbatory fantasies contained more unusual elements than did those of the incidental offenders. Both before, during, and after marriage the patterned offenders show a much greater interest in mouth-genital contact, both foliation and cunnilingus. Lastly, more of them experimented with extramarital coitus, homosexuality, and animal contact.
One is left with a somewhat vague picture of a childhood of emotional difficulties coupled with sexual activity, and an adult life consisting of a conflicting mixture of restraints, desires, and worries associated with or causing an unusual interest in, and experimentation with unconventional sexual activities.
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