Many minor and some major sex offenses are never reported to the police because of constraint on the part of the persons involved. There is a basic distaste for discussing such matters with outsiders, as well as a fear of unavoidable unpleasant publicity if the case comes before the court. With these factors in mind [...]

In considering the nonsexual offenses of the various sex offenders, we have used the traditional crime categories with a few modifications of our own:

Crimes against property. These include larceny, burglary, fraud, theft, damaging property, and similar crimes. None involve bodily harm or threat of bodily harm.

Crimes against person. Here we class all nonsexual offenses involving [...]

Premarital fertility is not extraordinary, but marital fertility is so limited as to warrant extensive discussion. Our measurement of marital fertility consists of a count of children born in the marriage. The incest offenders were the most fertile, the median incest offender vs. adults having five children, the incest offender vs. minors nearly five, and [...]

Since it is generally conceded that sexual attitudes are established early in life, we felt it important to find out where the men we interviewed acquired their first sexual information.

The vast majority (84 to 94 per cent) reported that most of their early knowledge of sexual behavior and reproduction came from their contemporaries, their friends, [...]

Exhibitionists are adult males who have deliberately exposed their genitalia to females in situations where exposure was inappropriate. This definition rules out cases in which the exposure occurred in the course of petting or coitus, or during undressing immediately before engaging in either activity. It also excludes a diversity of other cases in which the [...]

A person who has been infected in the anal area through receiving anal intercourse may develop rectal ulcers with pain and discharge. Even if a person has not received anal intercourse but has an LGV infection in the genital area, it is possible for the infection to spread to the anal and rectal area and [...]

People often find out they are positive for hepatitis C when they are donating blood or after routine testing reveals mild abnormalities in their liver function tests. To many this information is a great surprise. Some may have engaged in high-risk activity (such as injection drug use with equipment sharing) perhaps twenty or more years [...]

Usually a person is not aware that infection with cytomegalovirus has occurred, because there are often no symptoms with initial infection. Some people develop a flu-like syndrome when first infected, with fever, fatigue, muscle aches, headache, and mild liver inflammation. This can mimic mononucleosis, which is caused by another virus in the herpes family, the [...]

Medical science has devised a promising new means of hunting for prostate cancer cells in the blood. It’s called molecular staging because the techniques it uses come from the high-tech field of molecular biology.

There are several ideas at work here. One is that PSA is only made by prostate cells. (This is not entirely true; [...]

Here’s a confounding fact: At autopsy, “incidental” prostate cancer—small clusters of cancer cells, an apparently latent form of cancer that resides in millions of men—is found in 30 percent of men of every race and culture in the world. In some men, this latent cancer never poses a danger. In others, however, it does.

There are [...]