PEEPERS: OTHER FACTORS
]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 course, agrees nicely with their offense behavior. On the other hand, it is a bit odd that they do not manifest an above-average response in some other measures, such as reaction to pornography, since they are our youngest group, relatively few were married, and their sociosexual activity was somewhat meager. As we mentioned during the discussion of their masturbatory fantasy and general psychological responses, there are paradoxical data which indicate the existence of some quite different subgroups.
The peepers had very few alcoholics among them (7 per cent, the third smallest proportion) and the largest number (23 per cent) of abstainers from alcohol.
In gambling behavior the peepers tended to parallel the control group: nearly half had never gambled, about two fifths were social gamblers only, and about one eighth, a somewhat small proportion, had gambled seriously.
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