PATTERNED OFFENDERS: SEXUAL AROUSAL
In five of the six groups more patterned than incidental offenders reported strong sexual arousal from seeing or thinking of females. The differences are large, about 20 percentage points or more in four instances, with roughly one third to one half of the patterned offenders having told us of strong arousal as opposed to only about one sixth to one third of the incidental offenders. It is especially interesting that the patterned homosexual offenders vs. children, though they are far more homosexually oriented than their incidental counterparts, still exceeded them in the proportion who responded strongly to the sight or thought of females.
The response to thinking of or seeing males does not seem a criterion in differentiating patterned from incidental offenders; there were no consistent differences. As far as sexual arousal from sadomasochistic stories is concerned, the findings are weakened by the very substantial proportion of cases where data were lacking, but there does appear to be a tendency for more of the patterned offenders to respond sexually to such stories, even though the percentages are small.
By and large it would appear that patterned offenders are more responsive than incidental offenders to sexual stimuli not involving bodily contact.
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