MARRIAGE: INCIDENCE OF MARRIAGE
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 twenty this generalization still holds true, while the least heterosexually active groups—the homosexual offenders and the control group—come last with less than one sixth of their number married. At progressively older ages the homosexual offenders are still falling behind, but the control group is beginning to “catch up” with the more-married groups. Also, the proportion of married incest offenders is high, since by definition all of them married.
The fourth decade of life reveals the ultimate marital picture. Aside from the incest offenders, the three groups that one might term our sexually most “normal”—the control group, the prison group, and the offenders vs. adults—had the largest proportions of ever-married men, all with over four fifths of their members married (see Table 66). In contrast, the homosexual offenders never attain the two-thirds mark and the exhibitionists barely do so. Our sample of peepers is too young and too small for calculation in this span of life, but if their prior percentages are any clue, they too would have relatively very few married. In brief, it appears that those groups characterized by difficulty in heterosexual adjustment—the homosexuals, exhibitionists, and peepers —have the fewest men who ever marry.
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