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While more “criminal” than the offenders vs. children and adults, the offenders vs. minors in general exhibit moderate figures. By age twenty nearly half had been convicted of some offense, sexual or nonsexual, and this proportion rises to 77 by age thirty and 88 by age forty. The accumulative incidence of first offense vs. a female minor is naturally less: by age twenty, one third had such a conviction, by thirty, two thirds, and by forty, some 85 per cent. The first figure—one third—is a large one at age twenty, but the other figures are unexceptional. One may say that these offenders got off to a fast start but were overtaken later.

When the offender vs. minors committed some other sex offense he was most apt to choose exhibition; offenses against children were his next choice. The average number of sex offenses per offender vs. minors is 1.7.

In terms of sexual arousal resulting from visual stimulus, the offenders vs. minors are—like the offenders vs. adults—quite unresponsive. Only 31 per cent, the third smallest proportion, reported sexual arousal from seeing or thinking of females. Similarly, this group had the third smallest proportion of men (slightly under half) who responded to pornography. This general unresponsiveness to psychological stimuli, as opposed to physical contact, seems a product of a combination of above-average sociosexual activity, an unimaginative, simple, direct outlook on sex, and a relatively large proportion of men of below-average intelligence. Note their minimal dream content and masturbatory fantasy.

Very few offenders vs. minors were alcoholics and only a relatively small proportion of their offenses were committed while drunk. Their sobriety reflects the fact that their behavior bears little or no taboo requiring dissolution by alcohol, and in this respect they are like the offenders vs. adults. There was nothing unusual about their use of drugs. They are, however, quite distinctive in gambling; while half of them (the same proportion as among the control group) did not gamble, those who did tended to do so seriously. Some 22 per cent, a figure second only to that of the prison group, derived a substantial part of their income from gambling.

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