Roughly from 70 to 90 per cent of the males in our comparative groups had experienced orgasms while asleep. Since such orgasms occur chiefly in the teens and early twenties—very few males have their initial experience at older ages—our data are reasonably complete.
In the tabulation of ages at the time of the first nocturnal emission the control group is once again distinctive with the youngest median age recorded (15.2 years). The homosexual offenders vs. adults share this rank. Here again we find the two best educated of our comparative groups statistically equal. This is not unexpected, since in our 1948 volume we noted that nocturnal emissions began earlier among males of the college level than among males of lower educational levels. Parenthetically it should be added that age at puberty is not a common explanatory factor in this similarity between the homosexual offenders vs. adults and the control group. However, the time gap between the age at puberty and die age when first nocturnal emission occurred is smaller among those who reach puberty early and greater among those whose puberty is belated. Aside from the above, this tabulation reveals little: the majority of medians fall between the sixteenth and seventeenth birthdays.
There is no significant correlation between the percentages of the various groups who had experienced nocturnal emissions and die type of offense. The groups constituting the tripartite types are scattered, and there is no tendency for pedophiles to concentrate at any point. However, as the tables show, relatively large proportions of both the control and prison groups had orgasms during sleep.
Since the above “ever-never” type of listing is influenced by the average age of each group, despite the fact that the youngest group (the peepers), and the oldest (the incest offenders vs. adults), are contiguous in the rank-order, we should turn to incidence calculations in which age is controlled. In accumulative incidence the control group almost always tops the list. By age twenty, for instance, the figure for the control group is 83 per cent, while all other groups range from 58 to 80 per cent. The prison group also usually ranks high, often being in third place. Aside from this, accumulative incidence tells us nothing new.
Age-specific incidence, the percentage experiencing orgasm in sleep within a given age-period, again emphasizes the comparative importance of this outlet for the unmarried control group, which exhibits the largest percentages in nearly every age-period up to age thirty-five. Beginning in the puberty—15 age-period with 55 per cent, about three quarters to four fifths of the controls experienced nocturnal orgasms in every subsequent age-period up to age thirty-five. Thereafter they drop to third place. Among the married men the controls have the largest percentages in three of six age-periods, and rank second or third in the other three, from one half to three fifths of their members experiencing nocturnal emissions in any age-period up to age forty. Among the separated, divorced, or widowed, the percentages are larger than among the married, but they do not rebound to the levels set by the single males. The controls again lead with percentages that decline from the 70s to the 40s by the end of the fifth decade of life. The majority of the other groups begin with percentages in the 50s and 60s, but do not decline so rapidly—in consequence their percentages often equal or nearly equal those of the control group in later life.
Aside from this pronounced separation of the controls from all other groups, little can be said regarding age-specific incidence. No particular clusterings or trends are observed, although contiguous pairs of tripartite groups do sometimes occur. It is, however, worth remarking that marriage does not reduce the incidence of orgasm in sleep as much as it reduces masturbation, which suggests that the decrease in masturbation is in part voluntary rather than a simple displacement phenomenon.
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