Another aspect of the early lives of these sex offenders that must be examined is the whole complex of early sexual experience. Since puberty sets the terminal date for such experience, it is advisable to examine this variable first. It becomes immediately apparent that the patterned offenders attained puberty before the incidental offenders by a [...]
Risk-taking is a characteristic of the lives of most men; changing jobs, getting married, even crossing the street—all involve some risk, The job may not turn out, the marriage may fail, one may be struck by a car; all these are negative consequences of a life of risk. It is, therefore, not incongruous that men [...]
The techniques and extent of extramarital and postmarital petting were not ascertained in the earlier case histories; consequently our data are seriously limited. Nevertheless, we found postmarital petting, like postmarital coitus, to be essentially universal. Extramarital petting, we know, considerably exceeds the incidence of extramarital coitus, but again precise data are lacking. However, from our [...]
Our data concerning veneral disease came not only from the individual interviewed, but in those cases where the men had been institutionalized, also from official records. Between 20 and 37 per cent of the prison group and sex-offender groups had had gonorrhea; a far smaller proportion (14 per cent) of the control group had been [...]
About 64 per cent of the exhibitionists had married before contributing their histories to our research. In view of the age of the group (the average individual was about thirty-five) this is a small proportion; by that age some 85 per cent of the control and prison groups had married. Nor is there any evidence [...]
A health care provider who has expertise in diagnosing sexually transmitted infections can usually make the diagnosis of molluscum con-tagiosum by looking at the bumps. There is no blood test or other test to routinely diagnose this infection. If there is doubt, a lesion can be biopsied to assist in making the diagnosis, but this [...]
The symptoms of herpes usually last for a short time and go away for long stretches of time, so many people put the symptoms out of their minds and don’t seek medical attention. When people do seek medical help, they may find that some health care providers are not very well informed about herpes. This [...]
Transmission occurs only through oral, genital, or anal sexual contact with an infected partner. It usually but not always takes several exposures for transmission to take place. Correct use of condoms helps prevent transmission of this infection. There is no blood or culture test that is reliable,testing for donovanosis requires a biopsy of an infected [...]
Some people think that if you trust a partner you don’t need to talk about these things, and they worry that communicating with a partner about sexual health issues may cause that partner to leave. The problem with this approach is that, in an effort to show your partner that you trust him or her [...]
There are many reasons that a woman may experience pain with intercourse, only some of which are related to sexually transmitted infections. Pain can originate from sores on the outside of the genitals (herpes) or from vaginal infections (yeast or trichomonas), which often cause pain with initial penetration. Infection of the cervix or pelvic organs [...]