The offender in each of the 2,274 cases of offenses in the present study “has been legally convicted as the result of an overt act, committed by him for his own immediate sexual gratification, which is contrary to the prevailing sexual mores of the vicinity in which he lives and/or is legally punishable.” Some of [...]

The final settlements of criminal cases may be divided into those that involved imprisonment and those that did not. Of those involving imprisonment a further division may be made into (1) shorter imprisonment, usually in minimum or medium custody institutions, and (2) longer imprisonment, usually in maximum or medium custody institutions. For practical purposes we [...]

An examination of the specifically sexual aspects of marriage reveals that the aggressors vs. adults and minors are more inclined toward protracted precoital play than any other groups—for 36 to 37 per cent of them foreplay lasted for an average of a half hour or more. The incest offenders vs. children rank third with 30 [...]

It has often been maintained that one of the parents’ obligations is the imparting of sex information to their children. This is an obligation that most parents would prefer to avoid, but no one is available to whom to transfer the task. Through timidity, a feeling of incompetence, and exaggerated response to small but vocal [...]

The exhibitionists were neither the youngest nor the eldest in the family, nor did they tend to be only children. In any such measurement they are intermediate. Between ages fourteen and seventeen they had a rather poor relationship with their fathers, being inferior in this respect to the control and prison groups and to most [...]

The first two stages of LGV produce symptoms that are similar to the symptoms of many other diseases (including colitis, proctitis, proctocolitis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis) as well as other STDs (such as syphilis, herpes, and chancroid). The second stage of LGV can also be confused with tuberculosis and plague, as well as cancers [...]

Two tests are commonly used to determine if the ELISA test results are accurately positive. The first is the recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA), which also looks for antibody to the virus but is more sensitive than the ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). The second is the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, which looks for the genetic [...]

Cytomegalovirus is present in the genital secretions of both men and women who are infected. Other body fluids that have been found to have sufficient quantity of virus for transmission are blood, saliva, urine, and breast milk. Thus cytomegalovirus can be transmitted through oral, anal, and genital sexual contact, through kissing, through blood exchange (such [...]

Some scientists have been impressed by initial reports of this test’s success: In one recent study, researchers obtained blood from radical prostatectomy patients before they underwent surgery. They compared the frequency of a positive PCR test for PSA (which means cells in the blood were able to secrete PSA) to a man’s pathologic stage of [...]

Pregnancy. Sometimes spotting occurs early in pregnancy. Usually there will also be signs of pregnancy, such as a missed period, breast tenderness, or morning nausea. Spotting may occur even if the pregnancy is proceeding without complications, but it can also signal a problem with the pregnancy, either a “threatened abortion” (meaning that a miscarriage may [...]