A flow of feeling cannot occur if the doctor spends the whole time asking questions or giving advice, and he or she learns to allow the patient to choose the subject matter by a judicious use of open-ended questions and encouraging signs. Such an approach can take less time and is more appropriate to a [...]

Mrs S. was a favourite with the doctor. She was a bubbly woman, confident and attractive, who had worked hard to educate herself and had achieved an Open University degree and a post as a legal executive after an upbringing in a working class family. She rarely consulted except for contraception and the doctor felt [...]

Just as the bulge of the pregnant abdomen proclaims that sexual activity has taken place, patients who attend a doctor for contraceptive advice reveal that hey are sexually active or wish to become so. An intensely private matter becomes one of public knowledge and concern. It is not surprising that people find it difficult to [...]

For the doctor faced with a patient whose mothering capacities are stretched to the limit, great skill is needed to allow her to sense that he or she is on her side, and that the doctor is not denying her a sterilization, nor is being insensitive to her determination not to get pregnant again, but [...]

For any person or couple the decision to be sterilized is a major one and feelings need to be explored. For couples where there is a disability the whole issue of fertility and the advisability of pregnancy must be considered. It is important for the doctor to be able to give an informed and nonjudgemental [...]

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 [...]