PATTERNED OFFENDERS: PETTING
The incidence of petting is essentially the same for the patterned and incidental offenders in all groups except for the peepers, where the number of sociosexually underdeveloped individuals among the patterned pulls the figure down. The number of petting companions is smaller among the patterned offenders in three of the six groups, larger in one (the peepers), and the same in two groups. This suggests that there may be a slight tendency for the incidental offenders to have been somewhat more active in premarital life.
The only petting technique for which a comparison was made was mouth-genital contact. More of the patterned than of the incidental offenders had been fellated by females, in every instance by a margin of from three to 28 percentage points; some half to four fifths reported this activity.
More of the patterned offenders in four of the six groups had been fellated by female companions before marriage than had the incidental offenders. In fellation by prostitutes the patterned again led in five out of six groups. In marriage the patterned offenders always exceed the incidental, often by large margins, with from one third to about two thirds of them having been fellated by their wives.
When one studies cunnilingus (male mouth on female genitalia), the differences we observed in fellation are even more apparent. In all six groups more patterned than incidental offenders had performed cunnilingus, and the differences are often wide: from about one third to three quarters of the patterned offenders as against from one twelfth to three fifths of the incidental offenders. Similarly the patterned offenders substantially exceed the incidental in the proportion of males who had cunnilingus with premarital companions, post-marital, and extramarital companions, and with wives. The differences dwindle or are even reversed with respect to cunnilingus with prostitutes, but never more than 8 per cent of any group were involved.
It would appear that mouth-genital contact—fellation and cunnilingus—is an important variable in differentiating between males who have histories of extensive sex-offense experience as opposed to those with only a single offense. Why this should be true is a matter for conjecture. It may indicate an aggressive orality, from a psychiatric viewpoint; it may indicate a preoccupation with sexual esoterica; or it may be simply a healthy lack of inhibition.
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