In the present data the sexual offenses committed against other persons that did not involve body contact of any kind are typified by the two major groups of peeping and exhibition offenses. In addition to these is a minor subgroup specifically labeled “no contact” heterosexual offenses which constitute behavior other than peeping or exhibition. This [...]

A table of the percentages of males sexually responding to the sight or thought of other males reveals the three homosexual-offender groups, followed by the aggressors vs. minors and the prison group, as the most responsive. Least responsive were all the incest offenders and the heterosexual offenders vs. adults. Obviously there is a strong correlation [...]

We asked each subject we interviewed about his first postpubertal coitus not only with the aim of obtaining basic descriptive data, but with the aim of investigating the commonly held idea that the first coital experience is of great importance in subsequent sexual behavior and attitudes. While it is true that the psychiatric literature contains [...]

The first simple division of the men in our sample into those who did and did not engage in prepubertal sex play shows a tendency for the homosexual offenders and the offenders against female children to have had more members with such play than did the offenders against fe- males aged twelve and over. In [...]

Our sample contains only 25 peepers who ever married; they constitute about 45 per cent of the sample, a low figure for a group whose average (median) individual was age 26.5. The average individual who did marry did so at age 23.2. Owing to their youthfulness—they are the second youngest of our comparative groups—they had [...]

In addition to the drug regimens used to treat HIV infection itself, there are medications that can be used to protect a person from what are called opportunistic infections: those to which a person with HIV becomes vulnerable once the T-helper-cell count begins to fall. Some of these infections are described in the following sections. [...]

Most of those infected with hepatitis B have few or no symptoms associated with infection. Those who do have symptoms can usually improve with rest and treatment of the symptoms. Most people do not need to be hospitalized, and in fact unnecessary hospitalization may do more harm than good, because it puts others at risk [...]

A man with chlamydia in the genital area can have infection in the urethra (urethritis), the epididymis (epididymitis), the prostate (prostatitis), or a combination of these. If he is going to develop symptoms, they will usually appear one to three weeks after infection, but they may take longer. The symptoms include the following: — discharge [...]

In a bone scan, doctors inject into the bloodstream a radioactive tracer, a chemical that’s attracted, like a magnet, specifically to bone. (This substance is harmless and soon passes out of the body.) Then, using a device called a gamma camera, doctors take pictures of the bones. Normal bone absorbs the radioactive tracer at a [...]

To understand everything else in this book, you need a map. That’s why we’ve started with anatomy. The prostate is a key component in two major body systems: the urinary tract and the reproductive system. So here is a quick guide to the urinary tract: We begin with the kidneys—the big, intricate filters that cleanse [...]