The childhood of the homosexual offender vs. minors was marred by a bad relationship with the father and a poor one with the mother. Lack of affection and open friction seem to have characterized the household.
Perhaps as an escape from the home situation, the future offender socialized very well with other children and had numerous friends of both sexes. This was accompanied by a large amount of prepubertal sex play, somewhat more homosexual than heterosexual, involving a considerable amount of oral and anal activity. The relatively extensive prepubertal sexual behavior of this group included an unusually large number of them having sexual contact with adult males.
After puberty the heterosexual component of the lives of these offenders atrophied and their sexual orientation became increasingly homosexual. Among the single men there was relatively little hetero sexual petting and coitus, and correspondingly more masturbation and homosexuality. Only a relatively few of these offenders married, and extremely few were married at the time of the offense.
About half of the men had had extensive homosexual activity, and in the others there was generally a strong homosexual inclination. The great bulk of the homosexual offenders vs. minors appears to be (1) predominantly homosexual men who have retreated from adult homosexual competition and turned to boys, and (2) ordinary homosexuals who, due to situational factors or lapse of judgment, have taken as a sexual partner someone far younger than they ordinarily choose.
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