This measurement parallels our frequency data. Nocturnal orgasms were far more important to the single control-group males than to the members of any other group. From puberty to age forty such orgasms accounted for 11 to 14 per cent of all their orgasms. At the other extreme, this particular outlet seems to have been unimportant to the aggressors, among whom it usually constituted 1 to 4 per cent of their outlet. Five of the sex-offender groups maintained essentially uniform percentages (1-6 per cent), but nine groups and the prison group displayed a tendency toward larger proportions as they aged. This increase ended in the late twenties or early thirties for all groups except the homosexual offenders vs. minors who attained their maxima in their forties.
Among married males die picture is less clear and the range of variation much more restricted (0.2 to 7.4 per cent). The married control-group males display only moderate percentages, and the married aggressors vs. adults, as before marriage, derived only a minimal proportion of their outlet from orgasm during sleep.
When men are separated from their wives, divorced, or widowed, their nocturnal orgasms do not resume the importance they had in premarital life, and in many instances the proportions of total outlet these orgasms constitute are not dissimilar to those found among die married. This situation is not due to age—a factor held constant in this comparison—nor due to a habituation to coitus and an accompanying increased facility for obtaining it, since, as we have seen, masturbation in many postmarital groups rebounds to or even exceeds premarital levels. One is left with the impression that nocturnal emissions constitute a “weak” outlet—quantitatively not important and especially subject to diminution by age—and that marriage deals it a blow from which it never recovers. One cannot say the emissions are “drowned out” by increased sexual activity of other types in postmarital life, for in most groups the premarital frequency of total outlet exceeds that of the postmarital of the same age. Perhaps if total outlet is reduced, the weakest of the constituent outlets will suffer most.
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