By any age from twelve to twenty fewer of the sexual psychopaths had had premarital coitus than the other offenders. The differences were often great in the teens, the proportion of non-virgin sexual psychopaths sometimes being less than half that of the other offenders. By the early twenties the differences tend to decrease among the [...]
Public toilets are a site chiefly for homosexual offenses vs. adults, and our data show altogether 60 cases taking place there. Homosexual acts with children or minors as partners come to only about 3 per cent, but it was reported in over a fifth of the homosexual offenses between adult partners. In fact, public lavatories [...]
All persons interviewed were to be asked whether they approved, disapproved, or were neutral concerning male homosexuality. Unfortunately, this question was sometimes not asked of males with extensive homosexual experience. The omission was chiefly of mechanical origin: extensive homosexuality was recorded on a separate page, while this attitudinal question was recorded elsewhere and hence was [...]
The majority of subjects reported that their orgasms in sleep were ordinarily accompanied by sexual dreams. In die light of recent research on sleeping and dreaming, it is likely that all orgasms in sleep are accompanied by dreams, but that some individuals are unable to recall them upon awakening. At any rate, among the various [...]
Fetishism in the sexual sense is best defined as the phenomenon of sexual arousal resulting from perceiving some inanimate object, sound, taste, or smell. It is a positive sexual response not to the living object, but to some symbol of that object. In brief, fetishism is a displacement phenomenon. Mankind is much given to reacting [...]
Testing for PID requires a pelvic examination. Evidence of infection may include a yellowish discharge from the cervix, and the cervix may be red and bleed easily when it is swabbed—abnormal signs that indicate cervicitis. With a cervical infection, secretions collected on a swab inserted into the opening of the cervix (the os) will be [...]
Generally people who have one type of herpes infection in one area of the body are unlikely to acquire a different strain of herpes infection in the same area of the body. For example, if a person who has oral type 1 herpes performs oral sex on a person who has genital type 2 herpes, [...]
incidence: very common cause: yeast symptoms: itching, skin redness; discharge in women treatment: antifungal creams or pills WHAT IS IT? Yeast infections of the genital area are caused by fungus; both men and women can have these infections. Yeast infections are not sexually transmitted, because they are not spread from one sexual partner to another, [...]
People with chronic sexually transmitted infections, such as herpes and genital warts, face additional challenges in talking with partners. Not only do they need to think about all the issues discussed in this chapter, they also need to decide how and when to talk with new partners about these conditions. If you are in this [...]
Burning with urination and experiencing pain, itching, or irritation inside the penis are not normal. When these symptoms are experienced, they may be constant or they may come and go. They may be subtle or severe, and there may or may not be discharge. Men may incorrectly attribute these symptoms to being dehydrated, to consuming [...]