POSTMARITAL COITUS: INCIDENCE
The overwhelming majority of males whose marriages terminate continue heterosexual coitus afterwards. In terms of age-specific incidence of total postmarital coitus, the figures vary from 54 to 100 per cent. By and large, 90 per cent or more of most groups had postmarital coitus in any age-period up to forty-five. Thereafter sample size precludes exact statements, but it is evident that increasing age reduces the incidence. Prior to this aging effect the groups with the lower incidences (85 per cent or less) are the homosexual offenders and, in two age-periods, the heterosexual offenders vs. minors.
The age-specific incidence of postmarital coitus with companions is very similar, basically, to the incidence of total postmarital coitus, though the varying emphasis on prostitution causes some shifts in rank-order, especially in the case of the exhibitionists. Aside from the homosexual offenders, one may generalize that at least seven out of every ten separated, divorced, or widowed men had postmarital coitus in every five-year age-period up to age fifty. At younger ages the incidence percentages, again excepting the homosexual offenders, are commonly 90 to 100, but in the late thirties and thereafter figures in the 70s and 80s predominate.
The aggressors and offenders vs. adults and the prison group generally occupy the upper portion of the rank-orders, while the homosexual offenders monopolize the lower with between half to three quarters of them having had coitus in the various age-periods. The figure for the three high-ranking groups just mentioned is over 90 per cent in the age-periods up to age thirty and over 80 per cent thereafter. It would seem that most of the groups with high age-specific incidences of premarital coitus likewise have high proportions engaged in postmarital coitus, and that those with low premarital incidences again present low figures after marriage has terminated.
The age-specific incidence of postmarital coitus with prostitutes varies from 21 to 90 per cent, with most groups falling in the 40-60 per cent range (see Table 80). It is interesting that the groups inclined to have commercial sexual relationships prior to marriage do not necessarily display this predilection after the end of marriage. However, the exhibitionists, who were inclined toward coitus with prostitutes not only before marriage but also during marriage, continued this tendency after their marriages ended; they rank first in incidence of postmarital coitus with prostitutes from ages thirty-one to forty-five.
One of the interesting aspects of these incidence data is that the homosexual offenders vs. adults—our most homosexually oriented group—surpass a number of other groups in the number of men paying for postmarital coitus. One possible answer would be that the ever-married homosexual offenders are not only sufficiently heterosexual to seek females (note they rank second in number of extramarital partners), but are sufficiently accustomed to the promiscuity and prostitution frequently encountered in the homosexual milieu to be slightly more inclined toward female prostitutes than the other homosexual groups (whose members are more interested in children and minors and who, in consequence, have less contact with homosexual prostitution) and some of the more inhibited nonhomosexual groups. Another possible answer would be that the ever-married homosexual offenders vs. adults are insecure about their heterosexual status and, therefore, tend to rely on prostitutes whose opinions are of no concern. Note that in their proportion of total outlet derived from extramarital coitus these offenders found more in prostitution than did a number of other groups, including the other homosexual offenders.
There is no over-all tendency for the age-specific incidence of postmarital coitus with prostitutes to increase or decrease with age up to fifty. Instead, the comparative groups manifest great diversity. Among the offenders vs. adults, the prison group, and especially the exhibitionists, there is an increase in incidence as the individuals grow older. Among another three groups (the offenders vs. minors and the homosexual offenders vs. children and minors) there is a decrease. Other groups remain rather uniformly high in their percentages (as the offenders vs. children) or low (homosexual offenders vs. adults). Lastly, the control group shows neither uniformity nor trend in its fluctuating percentages.
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