EXHIBITIONISTS: HETEROSEXUAL PETTING
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 next-to-the-bottom position, and at eighteen are still in this position with only about four fifths of them experienced in petting. This relatively inferior heterosexual adjustment is in keeping with their substandard degree of socialization with females at ages ten to eleven and sixteen to seventeen.
The accumulative incidences of petting to orgasm are naturally lower. Relatively few exhibitionists had this experience, and they generally rank second to fourth lowest by any age. By age thirty about one fifth had had an orgasm from premarital petting.
There is nothing noteworthy about the frequency with which the exhibitionists reached orgasm through petting, and the age-specific incidence is similarly moderate in all age-periods. Since the behavior that resulted in their conviction was genital display, one might expect that something significant would be seen in a study of petting techniques involving the genitalia. This expectation is not fulfilled. About all that can be said is that the exhibitionists are somewhat given to mouth-genital contact, ranking third in premarital cunnilingus with companions (22 per cent) and fellation by prostitutes (55 per cent), and being in the upper half of the rank-orders for other categories of mouth-genital activity.
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