We realize that certain uncontrolled variables might result in arti-factual rather than actual differences between incidental and patterned offenders. For example, being a patterned offender might in large measure be the consequence of simply being older and having had more time in which to repeat offenses. Consequently we have examined a number of variables so [...]

In our society there is a belief, so common as to constitute folklore, in the evolutionary sequence of behavior. The child who indulges in petty theft will, if unchecked, end up as a professional thief. The teenager who lights his first marijuana cigarette is on the road to becoming a heroin addict. The collector of [...]

The interesting aspect of marital coitus (and petting to orgasm in marriage) is not that it provides the greatest part of the total sexual outlet of married men, but that it provides less than most people would anticipate. The members of most of our groups derive 85 per cent or more of their outlet from [...]

Few things are guarded as closely in certain segments of Western society as the privacy of coitus. The peeper who seeks to observe sexual activity clandestinely is prosecuted, and prosecutions of parents who have allowed their children to observe them in sexual activity are also recorded. Such constraint about the privacy of sexual activity has [...]

With a few exceptions there is nothing outstanding about the heterosexual petting activities of the exhibitionists, but one exception is in the accumulative incidence figures. Only 26 per cent had petted by age twelve—the second fewest on record. By age fourteen they have risen slightly in the rank-order, but by sixteen they again occupy the [...]

The Molluscum contagiosum virus causes small bumps on the skin that are usually flesh colored but range in color from white to yellow to pink. The lesions do not usually itch or hurt. There may be only a few lesions or there may be many, and individual lesions may grow together to form larger bumps. [...]

About 70 percent of first infections with genital herpes in the United States are caused by HSV-2, and about 30 percent are caused by HSV-1. Just as with oral herpes, the term genital herpes does not refer to a specific type of herpes—it can be caused by either type 1 or type 2 herpes viruses. [...]

incidence: very rare cause: bacteria (Calymmatobacterium granulomatis) symptoms: ulcers treatment: antibiotics Donovanosis, also called granuloma inguinale, is thought to be caused by the bacterium Calymmatobacterium granulomatis. HOW COMMON IS IT? In the United States, fewer than fifty people are infected with donovanosis each year; the infection is also uncommon in Europe and other parts of [...]

Many people have their own guidelines about when they will become sexually active. Some want to be sexually active only when they are in a committed, mutually monogamous relationship, or when they are married. Others may decide they want their partners to be tested for STDs before they become sexually active. All of these guidelines [...]

Sometimes a stronger than usual odor from the genital area indicates infection. Occasionally a woman inserts something into the vagina, such as a tampon, and forgets that it is there. Over time this, too, can cause a strong odor. It is not uncommon for a woman to think that an abnormal genital odor is her [...]