The percentages in Table 149 show the extent of coercion in nine offense groups. Because physical force was always used in the aggression offenses they are not included in the table. There was no force in the exhibition or peeping offenses, obviously. Since the heterosexual nonincest offenses were originally classified on the basis of force [...]

All studies of juvenile criminality are handicapped by the policy of law-enforcement agencies to protect juveniles by not recording their troubles or by disguising the nature of the trouble through some vague all-inclusive term. Therefore all juvenile records err on the conservative side. Employing our usual definition that adult life begins with the sixteenth birthday, [...]

Since the various groups we are comparing differ in age, we must use an accumulative rather than a simple ever-never incidence tabulation. We find that early and frequent premarital coitus is associated with early marriage: the groups most active in premarital coitus have the largest proportions of their members married by age eighteen. By age [...]

Discussion of prepubertal sociosexual activity is incomplete without some reference to general social relationships with other children. We ascertained from our interviewees the quantity and relative proportions of boy and girl companions they had at ages ten to eleven. A tabulation of those reporting numerous companions of both sexes provides only a few items of [...]

]n their sexual response to the thought or sight of persons of the opposite or same sex and in terms of response to pornography, the peepers are unusual in only one respect. A large percentage (38 per cent) of them reported strong or frequent sexual arousal from thinking of or seeing females; this finding, of [...]

If a person has experienced a significant exposure to a body fluid known to present a risk for HIV transmission, then a decision must be made about whether to start medications, such as zidovudine, that may prevent that person from becoming infected. The decision must be reached in consultation with a health care provider and [...]

About 70 percent of people who contract hepatitis C do not develop symptoms, so they would not know they had been infected unless they were tested. If symptoms do develop, they are usually mild and occur one to two months after infection. They include jaundice (yellowing of the skin) in about half of those who [...]

First, a word about the woeful lack of routine testing for chlamydia. Unless a person is being seen in a clinic that specializes in STDs, chlamydia testing is usually not offered unless the health care provider notices an obvious symptom, such as discharge or irritation of the cervix, during a routine gynecological exam. Since women [...]

MRI is painless and noninvasive; it gives a three-dimensional scan of the body, producing images that are like slices of anatomy. It creates better pictures than CT scans (see below), but it’s expensive and time-consuming (an average scan lasts about 45 minutes). Also, being inside an MRI machine, according to one patient, is “like being [...]

Age is also a major factor. Most—more than 80 percent of the men diagnosed with prostate cancer are older, over age 65; 90 percent of the deaths are in this same group. Traditionally, less than i percent of prostate cancer cases have been detected in men younger than age 50, and only 16 percent have [...]