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Pre-marital intercourse may be had either with companions or with professional prostitutes. There is a widespread opinion, both in the public at large and among social scientists, that prostitution provides the major source of non-marital sexual outlet for most of the male population. However, though it may play a more important part in the sexual patterns of some other countries, in the United States the number of males who go to prostitutes is not so high as is generally believed, and the frequencies with which they go are very much lower than almost anyone has realized.

There have been very few attempts to obtain statistical data on the incidence of contacts with prostitutes (Eddy 1928, Taylor 1934, Reitman in Robinson 1936, Bromley and Britten 1938), and these data have been inadequate. Similarly, it would appear that the frequencies of such contacts in any large segment of the population have never been investigated (although there are reports on isolated cases), and this is astounding in view of the tremendous interest that so many agencies have had in controlling the frequencies of such contacts. Law enforcement officers, the reports of vice societies, popular sex books and pamphlets, novels, and even the best of the literature written in this country have made prostitution appear much more significant than it actually proves to be in the total sexual life of the American male.

Table 138. Accumulative incidence data on total intercourse with prostitutes

Age	Total Intercourse with Prostitutes: Accumulative Incidence Data
	Total Population U. S. Corrections		Educ. Level 0-8		Educ. Level 9-12		Educ. Level 13+
	Cases	% with Exper.	Cases	% with Exper.	Cases	% with Exper..	Cases	% with Exper.
8	3995	0.0	685	0.0	494	0.0	2816	0.0
9	3995	0.0	685	0.0	494	0.0	2816	0.0
10	3995	0.0	685	0.0	494	0.0	2816	0.0
11	3994	0.0	684	0.1	494	0.0	2816	0.0
12	3994	0.3	684	0.6	494	0.2	2816	0.0
13	3994	0.7	684	1.0	494	0.6	2816	0.1
14	3991	2.6	681	3.5	494	2.6	2816	0.8
15	3985	7.4	675	7.7	494	8.5	2816	2.3
16	3964	16.1	658	18.4	491	17.7	2815	4.8
17	3905	26.0	621	28.8	471	28.9	2813	9.1
18	3767	36.7	594	40.6	436	40.6	2737	13.6
19	3536	42.1	564	45.6	399	46.6	2573	17.4
20	3231	45.3	536	50.9	357	48.5	2338	20.6
21	2857	48.6	512	54.7	313	52.1	2032	22.2
22	2454	51.4	492	58.3	290	54.5	1672	24.9
23	2137	54.5	476	59.5	264	59.1	1397	25.7
24	1845	55.9	456	61.6	237	60.3	1152	26.6
25	1659	58.6	436	65.1	221	62.9	1002	28.6
26	1515	59.9	424	66.5	207	64.3	884	29.4
27	1379	61.2	409	67.5	196	65.8	774	30.5
28	1273	63.3	395	67.6	179	69.8	699	32.0
29	1164	64.0	371	67.7	159	71.1	634	32.0
30	1069	65.5	355	69.6	141	73.0	573	33.2
31	993	66.1	335	70.1	129	73.6	529	34.0
32	934	65.9	323	70.9	119	72.3	492	33.7
33	873	66.4	309	71.2	116	73.3	448	33.3
34	819	66.7	300	72.0	107	72.9	412	33.7
35	762	68.0	286	72.7	94	73.4	382	34.6
36	718	70.0	273	74.4	89	76.4	356	35.7
37	656	69.8	255	73.7	78	76.9	323	35.6
38	625	69.6	246	73.6	72	76.4	307	36.2
39	570	6«.2	224	72.3	66	74.2	280	36.4
40	521	68.8	204	73.5	60	71.7	257	36.6
41	485	68.9	192	74.0	55	70.9	238	37.0
42	456	68.1	183	73.8	52	69.2	221	35.3
43	409	67.2	167	73.1	50	68.0	192	34.4
44	379	66.8	154	72.7			177	36.2
45	348	68.7	141	73.0			161	38.5
“Educ. level 0-8” are the males who never go beyond grade school. “Educ. level 9-12” are the males who enter high school but never go beyond. “Educ. level 13+” are the males who will ultimately go to college.
Covering the life span, including pre-marital, extra-marital, and post-marital histories. In three educational levels, and in the total population corrected for the U. S. Census of 1940.

Figures 153-154. Intercourse with prostitutes: accumulative incidence in total U. S. population and in three educational levels.. Vs.mstrbtn

Showing percent of total population that has ever had intercourse with prostitutes by each of the indicated ages. All data based on total population, irrespective of marital status, and corrected for the U. S. Census distribution.

We find that about 69 per cent of the total white male population ultimately has some experience with prostitutes (Table 138, Figure 153). Many of these males, however, never have more than a single experience or two, and not more than 15 or 20 per cent of them ever have such relations more often than a few times a year, over as much as a five-year period in their lives. This means that there is nearly a third (31%) of the population that never has any sort of sexual contact with prostitutes. There are, of course, a few males who never have heterosexual relations except with prostitutes, but this happens very rarely.

Ultimately, something between 3.5 and 4 per cent of the total outlet of the total male population (single and married) is drawn from relations with female prostitutes (Tables 96, 97, Figures 106, 107). This is not a very large portion of the total outlet. Nocturnal emissions are more important (Chapter 15), and the homosexual accounts for two or three times as many orgasms among males (Chapter 21). Only petting to climax (Chapter 16) and animal intercourse (Chapter 22) account for smaller parts of the outlet. In the college group, where intercourse with prostitutes is at its lowest, the homosexual may provide ten to twenty times as much of the outlet as prostitutes do. Many groups interested in controlling non-marital sexual activities have centered their attention upon prostitution when, in actuality, it accounts for less than a tenth of the non-marital outlet of the male population. Intercourse with prostitutes is much more important socially than it is as a means of outlet.

Table 55. Intercourse with prostitutes and age

Age Group	Cases	Intercourse with prostitutes: Sample Population							Intercourse with prostitutes: U. S. Population
		Total population			Active Population				Total population		Active Population
		Mean Frequency	Me- dian Freq.	% of Total Outlet	Incid. %	Mean Frequency	Me- dian Freq.	% of Total Outlet	Mean Freq.	% of Total Outlet	Incid. %	Mean Freq.	% of Total Outlet
Single Males
Adol.-15	3012	0.01 ± 0.00	0.00	0.39	5.2	0.21 ± 0.03	0.08	7.13 ± 1.34	0.02	0.61	7.7	0.25	8.79
16-20	2868	0.07 ± 0.01	0.00	2.48	30.8	0.23 ± 0.02	0.07	8.05 ± 0.60	0.12	3.66	41.9	0.29	11.24
21-25	1535	0.10 ± 0.01	0.00	3.92	29.1	0.35 ± 0.03	0.09	15.19 ± 1.21	0.20	6.29	45.5	0.43	20.27
26-30	550	0.16 ± 0.02	0.00	6.14	29.8	0.53 ± 0.06	0.25	22.82 ± 2.23	0.28	9.56	46.8	0.61	26.88
31-35	195	0.22 ± 0.04	0.00	9.67	40.5	0.55 ± 0.08	0.27	28.73 ± 3.36	0.31	12.57	51.6	0.62	32.38
36-40	97	0.26 ± 0.05	0.00	13.03	48.5	0.54 ± 0.09	0.32	39.49 ± 5.17	0.31	16.42	55.5	0.55	41.64
41-45	56	0.18 ± 0.05	0.00	10.65	39.3	0.47 ± 0.10	0.33	48.23 ± 7.93	....	....	....	....	....
46-50	39	0.29 ± 0.11	0.00	15.77	48.7	0.60 ± 0.20	0.27	52.74 ± 8.96	....	....	....	....	....
Married Males
16-20	272	0.04 ± 0.02	0.00	0.87	14.3	0.28 ± 0.11	0.07	2.87 ± 1.15	0.05	1.17	15.9	0.36	3.58
21-25	751	0.03 ± 0.01	0.00	0.72	12.9	0.21 ± 0.05	0.07	4.03 ± 0.96	0.05	1.15	19.5	0.25	4.29
26-30	737	0.03 ± 0.01	0.00	0.82	11.8	0.23 ± 0.04	0.07	4.95 ± 1.02	0.04	1.30	17.2	0.27	5.89
31-35	569	0.02 ± 0.01	0.00	0.84	11.1	0.20 ± 0.04	0.08	5.42 ± 1.19	0.03	1.12	14.9	0.18	5.76
36-40	390	0.02 ± 0.01	0.00	0.85	10.5	0.20 ± 0.04	0.08	7.33 ± 2.33	0.02	1.12	12.0	0.22	8.52
41-45	272	0.02 ± 0.00	0.00	0.78	8.5	0.18 ± 0.04	0.09	8.00 ± 3.75	0.02	1.11	11.4	0.19	9.84
46-50	175	0.01 ± 0.00	0.00	0.80	5.7	0.25 ± 0.07	0.22	12.25 ± 7.94	0.02	1.01	7.9	0.24	13.58
51-55	109	0.02 ± 0.01	0.00	1.13	7.3	0.24 ± 0.09	0.17	15.19 ± 10.73	0.02	1.65	9.1	0.25	18.43
56-60	67	0.02 ± 0.01	0.00	1.75	7.5	0.25 ± 0.15	0.10	19.50 ± 18.35	....	....	....	....	.....
In this, and in the succeeding charts in this and the following chapter, means and medians represent average frequencies per week. “% of Total Outlet” in the total population shows what portion of the total number of orgasms is derived from masturbation in the total population. A total of such figures for all the possible sources of outlet equals 100%, which is the total outlet of the group. “% of Total Outlet” for the active population represents the mean of the figures showing the percentage of the total outlet which is derived from this source by each individual who has any masturbation in his history, in that particular age period. The percents for the several possible outlets do not total 100% because different individuals are involved in the populations utilizing each type of outlet.
U. S. population figures are corrections of the raw data for a population whose age, marital status, and educational level are the same as those shown in the U. S. Census for 1940.

Among single males, the percentage of the total outlet derived from contacts with prostitutes increases markedly with age (Table 65, Figure 78), beginning at 3.7 per cent in the late teens, rising to nearly 10 per cent by age 30, and going still higher for those relatively few males who are still unmarried in the later years. In the adolescent to 15-year group, less than 1 per cent of the boys with pre-marital intercourse depend solely upon prostitutes, and 14.6 per cent have intercourse with both companions and prostitutes. By 50 years of age, a seventh of the males (14.3%) who have pre-marital intercourse depend entirely upon prostitutes, and more than a half of them (62.0%) have intercourse with both companions and prostitutes. For married males (Table 65, Figure 78), hardly more than 1 per cent of the outlet is derived from extra-marital intercourse with prostitutes, and this lowers the average for all males, single and married.

The individual males who have the highest frequencies of pre-marital intercourse with prostitutes are found in the group between 21 and 25 years of age (Table 49). In both younger and older age groups, the maximum frequencies are lower (i.e., the range of variation in those populations is less).

For this active portion of the population, the frequency of intercourse with companions is greatest between adolescence and 15, after which the frequencies drop steadily into the oldest ages; but intercourse with prostitutes increases in frequency until it reaches its maximum (over 0.6 per week) between 26 and 35 years of age. This increase in frequency is not an effect of aging, but a social effect. Younger males find it easier to secure intercourse with girls of their own age and social level. The older male finds it more convenient and less dangerous to secure intercourse from professional sources. This custom may not be followed by succeeding generations, who have been less accustomed to going to prostitutes at any age.

Table 65. Intercourse with prostitutes in relation to marital status and age

Age Group	Total Sample Population
	Cases			Mean Frequency			% of Total Outlet
	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital	Post- mar- ital	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital	Post- mar ital	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital	Post- mar- ital
Adol.-15	3012			0.01			0.39
16-20	2868	272	46	0.07	0.04	0.10	2.48	0.87	2.37
21-25	1535	751	119	0.10	0.03	0.12	3.92	0.72	3.25
26-30	550	737	182	0.16	0.03	0.19	6.14	0.82	6.46
31-35	195	569	158	0.22	0.02	0.22	9.67	0.84	11.34
36-40	97	390	128	0.26	0.02	0.24	13.03	0.85	13.81
41-45	56	272	96	0.18	0.02	0.28	10.65	0.78	18.96
46-50	39	175	63	0.29	0.01	0.19	15.77	0.80	15.25
51-55		109	42		0.02	0.12		1.13	9.78
56-60		67			0.02			1.75
Age Group	Active Cases in Sample Population
	Incidence %			Mean Frequency			% of Total Outlet
	Pre- mar ital	Extra- mar ital	Post- mar ital	Pre- mar ital	Extra- mar ital	Post- mar ital	Pre- mar ital	Extra- mar ital	Post- mar ital
Adol.-15	5.2			0.21			7.13
16-20	30.8	14.3	37.0	0.23	0.28	0.26	8.05	2.87	5.50
21-25	29.1	12.9	47.1	0.35	0.21	0.25	15.19	4.03	18.36
26-30	29.8	11.8	55.5	0.53	0.23	0.34	22.82	4.95	22.28
31-35	40.5	11.1	60.8	0.55	0.20	0.37	28.73	5.42	28.63
36-40	48.5	10.5	57.0	0.54	0.20	0.41	39.49	7.33	34.23
41-45	39.3	8.5	60.4	0.47	0.18	0.46	48.23	8.00	46.92
46-50	48.7	5.7	52.4	0.60	0.25	0.37	52.74	12.25	48.83
51-55		7.3	40.5		0.24	0.29		15.19	54.91
56-60		7.5			0.25			19.50
Age Group	Corrected for U. S. Population
	Total Population				Active Population
	Mean Frequency		% of Total Outlet		Incidence %		Mean Frequency		% of Total Outlet
	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital	Pre- mar- ital	Extra- mar- ital
Adol.-15	0.02		0.61		7.7		0.25		8.79
16-20	0.12	0.05	3.66	1.17	41.9	15.9	0.29	0.36	11.24	3.58
21-25	0.20	0.05	6.29	1.15	45.5	19.5	0.43	0.25	20.27	4.29
26-30	0.28	0.04	9.56	1.30	46.8	17.2	0.61	0.27	26.88	5.89
31-35	0.31	0.03	12.57	1.12	51.6	14.9	0.62	0.18	32.38	5.76
36-40	0.31	0.02	16.42	1.12	55.5	12.0	0.55	0.22	41.64	8.52
41-45		0.02		1.11		11.4		0.19		9.84
46-50		0.02		1.01		7.9		0.24		13.58
51-55		0.02		1.65		9.1		0.25		18.43
Data for the U. S. population are based on the sample population which is corrected for the distribution of educational levels shown in the U. S. Census for 1940. For sigmas of means, median frequencies, etc., see the Table 54.

Figures 77-82. Relation of age and marital status to intercourse with prostitutes

Prostitutes provide only about a tenth of the male’s total pre-marital intercourse: 8.6 per cent between ages 16 and 20, 13.3 per cent between 21 and 25, and even more of the pre-marital intercourse of the males who are still unmarried at later ages (Tables 64, 65). For the younger males, between 16 and 20, prostitution provides only 4 per cent of the total outlet for the population as a whole, and about 11 per cent of the outlet for those who actually frequent prostitutes. But by 50 years of age, prostitutes provide nearer a sixth (approximately 16%) of the total outlet for the still single males, and more than half (about 53%) of the total outlet for the males who do go to prostitutes.

It is to be noted that an increasing proportion of the extra-marital intercourse comes from prostitutes as the male grows older. This is partly due to his decreasing ability to find sexual partners, particularly partners of attractive, younger ages. It is also due, however, to the fact that the older male finally reaches the point where he considers it simpler to go to prostitutes than to try to court and win the favors of a girl who is not a prostitute.

In the same fashion, and for the same reasons, intercourse with prostitutes supplies an increasing proportion of the outlet of the males who have been previously married, but who are now widowed, separated from their wives, or divorced (Table 65, Figure 78).

Among married males, prostitutes provide about 11 per cent of the extra-marital outlet between ages 16 and 20, over 16 per cent of that outlet by age 30, and 22 per cent of the extra-marital outlet at age 55 (Tables 64, 65). This apparent increase, however, is not due to any increase in actual frequencies, but to the fact that the total outlet drops steadily through the years, while intercourse with prostitutes is maintained with more or less constant frequencies over a period of several decades.

Table 87. Intercourse with prostitutes, as related to educational level

Age Group	Educ. Level	Cases	Masturbation, by Educational Levels
			Total Population		Active Population			Accum. Incid. %
			Mean Frequency	%of Total Outlet	Incid. %	Mean Freq.	Median Freq.	Accum. Incid. %
Single Males: Pre-marital Intercourse
Adol.-15	0-8	712	0.029 ± 0.007	0.97	8.7	0.33	0.10	8
	9-12	606	0.014 ± 0.004	0.44	7.9	0.18	0.07	8
	13 +	2799	0.003 ± 0.001	0.11	2.3	0.13	0.07	2
16-20	0-8	720	0.20 ± 0.019	6.21	48.2	0.41	0.14	51
	9-12	607	0.096 ± 0.011	2.75	41.4	0.23	0.08	44
	13 +	2861	0.022 ± 0.002	0.80	19.3	0.11	0.06	20
21-25	0-8	361	0.39 ± 0.045	12.55	60.7	0.64	0.33	74
	9-12	263	0.14 ± 0.02	4.66	43.7	0.31	0.10	54
	13 +	1898	0.03 ± 0.007	1.27	17.2	0.18	0.07	28
26-30	0-8	159	0.41 ± 0.08	14.34	72.3	0.56	0.37	80
	9-12	117	0.18 ± 0.04	6.46	42.7	0.43	0.17	61
	13 +	487	0.08 ± 0.035	3.16	16.4	0.49	0.08	35
Married Males: Extra-marital Intercourse
16-20	0-8	158	0.029 ± 0.012	0.61	16.5	0.18	0.07	17
	9-12	87	0.074 ± 0.048	1.48	16.1	0.46	0.07	16
	13 +	46	0.002 ± 0.001	0.05	4.3	0.05	0.08	4
21-25	0-8	324	0.032 ± 0.009	0.80	15.1	0.21	0.08	18
	9-12	164	0.061 ± 0.023	1.49	25.0	0.25	0.06	25
	13 +	440	0.008 ± 0.003	0.23	5.2	0.16	0.07	6
26-30	0-8	292	0.040 ± 0.011	1.16	17.1	0.24	0.08	20
	9-12	135	0.053 ± 0.021	1.49	20.0	0.26	0.07	25
	13+	532	0.006 ± 0.002	0.20	6.0	0.10	0.07	7
31-35	0-8	186	0.037 ± 0.012	1.46	15.6	0.24	0.09	20
	9-12	.82	0.033 ± 0.017	0.99	17.1	0.19	0.08	25
	13+	301	0.011 ± 0.004	0.41	6.6	0.16	0.08	8
36-40	0-8	143	0.021 ± 0.007	0.93	9.8	0.21	0.13	21
	9-12	58	0.044 ± 0.024	1.69	19.0	0.23	0.09
	13+	189	0.013 ± 0.005	0.53	8.5	0.16	0.08	12
41-45	0-8	100	0.028 ± 0.01	1.46	11.0	0.25	0.23	21
	9-12	34	0.015 ± 0.009	0.70	14.7	0.10	0.08
	13 +	138	0.006 ± 0.003	0.32	5.1	0.12	0.08	12
Median frequencies for the total populations are, for the most part, 0.00.

Figure 102. Pre-marital intercourse with prostitutes, by educational level and occupational class
“Educ. level 0-8” are the males who never go beyond grade school. “Educ. level 9-12” are the males who enter high school but never go beyond. “Educ. level 13+” are the males who will ultimately go to college.
Occupational Class: 0. Dependents 1. Underworld 2. Day labor 3. Semi-skilled labor 4. Skilled labor 5. Lower white collar group 6. Upper white collar group 7. Professional group 8. Business executive group 9. Extremely wealthy group
For single males of the age group 16-20. Relative lengths of bars compare mean frequencies for the groups. Note similarity of data based on educational levels and data based on occupational classes.

The incidence and frequency figures vary tremendously for different segments of the population, and it is misleading to discuss the place of prostitution in the population as a whole. Contacts with prostitutes are most frequently had by males of the lowest social levels. By 25 years of age, 74 per cent of the males who never went beyond grade school have had some intercourse with prostitutes (Table 87), while only 54 per cent of the males of the high school level, and only 28 per cent of the males of the college level, have had such experience. Among single males of the group that never goes beyond the eighth grade, as much as 6 per cent of the total sexual outlet is derived from prostitutes in the late teens, 14.3 per cent by the late twenties, and 23.4 per cent by the late thirties, if the male is not yet married by that time (Table 96). Among the boys who go to high school the figures start at 3 per cent in the late teens and climb to 10.3 per cent in the middle thirties. For males of the college level less than 1 per cent of the total sexual outlet is derived from prostitutes in the late teens, and only 3 per cent in the late twenties. This is one of the most striking differences between the patterns of college males and the patterns of all other groups.

Among all married males, it is never more than 1.7 per cent of the total sexual outlet which is derived from prostitutes in any particular age period (Table 97) and, again, it is the married male of the college level who draws the lowest percentage of his outlet from professional sources.

The actual frequencies of intercourse with prostitutes begin at very low levels in the early adolescent years, but they do begin there. Law enforcement officers are especially interested in trying to prevent young boys from having such relations, and it is very difficult to get a prostitute to admit that she has ever had relations with any boy under 18. But nearly 8 per cent of the males who have contributed to the present study have reported that they had such relations before or by the time they were 15 years of age. Frequencies of contacts steadily rise until they average about once in three weeks (0.3 per week) for the total population of unmarried males in their thirties (Tables 64, 65). For those males who actually have such relations, the frequencies start in the earliest adolescent years at once in four weeks and rise to twice in three weeks (0.6 per week) by the thirties. If these calculations are broken down by social levels (Table 87, Figure 102), the active frequencies for those boys who never go beyond the eighth grade in school start at about once in three weeks and rise to once in two weeks or twice in three weeks. For the boys who go to high school but not beyond, the frequencies (of the active population) start at some lower level and rise to once in four weeks by age 20, once in three weeks by age 25, and somewhat higher in the later years for the males who remain unmarried. For the males who belong to the college level, those who have any intercourse at all with prostitutes average only once in six to ten weeks, unless they remain unmarried past the age of 25, when the frequencies rise rather considerably.

Between 16 and 20, males of the grade school level have intercourse with prostitutes 9 times as often, and males of the high school level have it more than 4 times as often as males of the college level (Table 87, Figure 102). By the early thirties, males of the grade school level have intercourse with prostitutes about 36 times as frequently as males of the college level. Making the comparisons by occupational classes, the record is that males of classes 2 and 3 (the laboring group and the semi-skilled workmen) and possibly class 4 (the skilled workmen) have 5 to 10 times as many contacts with prostitutes during their late teens as males of occupational class 7 (the future professional group) (Figure 102). The differences become even greater in later years. Public health officials who are interested in controlling the spread of venereal disease might profitably give maximum attention to educating the groups which have the most frequent contacts with prostitutes and with other girls.

For the population taken as a whole, including single and married males of all social levels and of all ages above adolescence, the mean average frequency of intercourse with prostitutes is 0.093 per week, which is a little less than 5 times per year. With this average figure, which has been very carefully calculated on the basis of all of our available data, it is possible to estimate the average number of contacts that are being made with prostitutes in any particular city or state, per week or per year. Infrequent as such contacts are in relation to the total sexual activity of the average male, they amount to a good deal in absolute frequencies in any population as a whole.

In the total U. S. population 34.3 per cent (calculated from U. S. Census 1940) consists of males who are above the age of onset of adolescence and under the age of impotence and, therefore, eligible for intercourse with prostitutes. The frequencies of contacts per million of total population should then total close to 1,659,000 per year. In terms of the town of 100,000 inhabitants, the contacts average about 3,190 per week. If the police force in such a community fails to make that many arrests each week for association with prostitutes, this may be taken as a measure of the difficulty of facing the actualities of human behavior. With such data, it should be possible to sense the magnitude of the problem of eliminating prostitution. And yet contacts with prostitutes, as just noted, represent only a small part of the non-marital (and therefore largely taboo or illegal) sexual activity of the community.

Table 100. Comparisons of older and younger generations:
homosexual outlet, and intercourse with prostitutes

Age	Accumulative Incidence, Two Generations
	Homosexual Outlet Educ. Level 13+				Intercourse with Prostitutes Educ. Level 13+				Intercourse with Prostitutes Educ. Level 0-8
	Older Generation		Younger Generation		Older Generation		Younger Generation		Older Generation		Younger Generation
	Cases	% with Exper.	Cases	% with Exper.	Cases	% with Exper.	Cases	% with Exper.	Cases	% with Exper.	Cases	% with Exper.
8	382	0.0	2435	0.0	382	0.0	2434	0.0	324	0.0	476	0.0
9	382	0.3	2435	0.0	382	0.0	2434	0.0	324	0.0	476	0.0
10	382	1.3	2435	0.3	382	0.0	2434	0.0	324	0.0	476	0.0
11	382	3.7	2435	1.6	382	0.0	2434	0.0	324	0.0	475	0.2
12	382	7.6	2435	6.0	382	0.0	2434	0.0	324	0.6	475	0.6
13	382	12.6	2435	11.5	382	0.3	2434	0.1	324	0.9	475	1.1
14	382	19.9	2435	17.7	382	0.5	2434	0.8	324	4.0	472	3.2
15	382	23.3	2435	20.8	382	1.6	2434	2.4	324	7.7	466	7.5
16	382	24.3	2434	22.8	382	4.2	2433	4.9	324	19.4	447	15.9
17	382	25.4	2432	23.9	382	9.7	2431	9.0	324	30.6	405	25.9
18	382	27.2	2356	25.3	382	13.1	2355	13.7	324	42.6	373	38.3
19	382	28.5	2192	26.4	382	15.2	2191	17.8	324	47.5	333	42.9
20	382	29.3	1957	27.3	382	18.3	1956	21.0	324	51.9	299	47.8
21	382	29.8	1651	28.3	382	21.2	1650	22.5	324	56.8	274	50.4
22	382	30.9	1290	29.5	382	24.9	1290	24.9	324	59.3	243	55.6
23	382	31.4	1015	31.5	382	25.7	1015	25.7	324	61.4	222	55.4
24	382	32.2	770	32.1	382	27.0	770	26.5	324	62.3	198	60.1
25	382	32.7	620	33.2	382	28.3	620	28.9	324	65.7	173	63.6
26	382	32.7	502	33.1	382	29.1	502	29.7	324	66.4	158	67.1
27	382	32.7	392	34.7	382	29.3	392	31.6	324	67.0	141	68.1
28	382	33.0	317	35.0	382	30.6	317	33.8	324	67.3	126	68.3
29	382	33.0	252	34.5	382	31.2	252	33.3	324	67.9	100	66.0
30	382	33.8	191	33.5	382	32.2	191	35.1	324	70.7	80	66.3
31	382	33.8	147	35.4	382	32.2	147	38.8	324	71.3	58	63.8
32	382	33.8	110	30.0	382	32.7	110	37.3	324	71.3
33	382	33.8	66	34.8	382	33.0	66	34.8	324	71.6
Accumulative incidence data based on total life span, including pre-marital, extramarital, and post-marital contacts. Median difference in age between the two generations is 22 years. In the older generation, for the data for the homosexual data and on intercourse with prostitutes at “Educ. Level 13+” there are 382 cases for each and every age. In the older generation for intercourse with prostitutes at “Educ. Level 0-8” there are 324 cases.

Figures 113-114. Comparisons of accumulative incidence for older and younger generations:
intercourse with prostitutes.

All curves based on total life span, irrespective of marital status.
Figure shows intercourse with prostitutes for males of the grade school level (0-8) and of the college level (13+).
Masturbation and total intercourse are shown for males of the college level (13+).
Median age difference between the two generations is 22 years.

In view of the efforts that have been made in the last decade or two to control heterosexual prostitution, it is important to note that the data show (Table 100, Figures 113, 114) that the percentage of males in each social level who are frequenting prostitutes today is almost precisely the same as the percentage which had such experience twenty or more years ago. While there are considerable differences in frequencies for males of the different social levels which may live together in the same town, there are practically no differences between the males of two generations which are as far apart as the two world wars.

Table 104. Comparisons of incidences and mean frequencies of sexual activities in older and younger generations

Educational Level and Age Group	Comparisons of Incidences and Frequencies in Two Generations Incidences (Incid) and Mean Frequencies (Freq) for Total Population
			Older Gener		Young. Gener.		Older Gener		Young. Gener.		Older Gener		Young. Gener.		Older Gener		Young. Gener.		Older Gener		Young. Gener.		Older Gener		Young. Gener.		Older Gener		Young. Gener.
	Older Gener.	Young. Gener.	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq	Incid	Freq
Single Males
Outlet	No. of cases		Total outlet				Masturbation				Nocturnal emissions				Petting to climax				Pre-marital intercourse *				Intercourse with prostitutes				Homosexual
Educational Level 0-8
Adol.-15	315	397	85.4	2.07	96.0	3.77	76.8	1.07	90.9	1.94	22.9	0.05	27.5	0.06	6.7	0.02	18.6	0.05	37.1	0.70	57.4	1.35	9.8	0.04	7.8	0.02	17.1	0.17	29.0	0.30
16-20	346	374	96.2	2.31	98.7	4.05	78.0	0.78	90.4	1.08	55.2	0.13	57.5	0.17	13.0	0.03	28.9	0.08	74.3	1.20	87.7	2.39	51.7	0.23	44.9	0.17	17.9	0.16	33.7	0.27
21-25	229	132	96.1	2.35	97.7	4.53	59.4	0.59	67.4	0.69	57.6	0.12	62.9	0.21	11.4	0.01	22.7	0.08	72.5	1.36	87.9	3.22	65.5	0.41	52.3	0.36	16.6	0.22	32.6	0.30
Educational Level 9-12
Adol.-15	144	462	92.4	2.49	96.3	3.61	84.7	1.58	91.6	2.04	41.0	0.13	39.2	0.15	12.5	0.03	21.6	0.06	31.3	0.47	47.2	0.94	9.7	0.03	7.4	0.01	23.6	0.18	35.3	0.32
16-20	146	461	100.0	2.82	99.6	3.76	84.9	1.15	90.2	1.35	69.2	0.20	71.1	0.23	32.2	0.06	34.9	0.09	71.2	1.17	73.8	1.58	45.2	0.16	40.1	0.08	26.7	0.18	45.3	0.44
21-25	109	154	98.2	2.41	100.0	3.42	67.0	0.70	83.1	0.98	70.6	0.21	71.4	0.25	32.1	0.07	26.0	0.09	73.4	1.13	68.8	1.33	54.1	0.22	36.4	0.08	29.4	0.24	43.5	0.64
Educational Level 13+
Adol.-15	462	2337	95.5	2.76	95.8	2.84	80.3	1.97	82.8	2.27	72.7	0.44	69.3	0.32	9.7	0.03	14.6	0.05	9.3	0.12	9.3	0.07	1.7	0.00	2.4	0.00	25.1	0.14	20.8	0.08
16-20	476	2385	99.8	2.69	99.7	2.70	85.7	1.71	89.2	1.81	92.2	0.49	91.0	0.41	39.3	0.11	47.1	0.15	37.0	0.28	39.2	0.27	18.7	0.03	19.4	0.02	16.4	0.09	15.9	0.06
21-25	456	1442	99.6	2.57	99.9	2.47	83.6	1.30	88.1	1.31	90.1	0.41	86.1	0.38	51.8	0.18	51.9	0.18	56.4	0.58	54.1	0.45	23.7	0.07	15.1	0.02	12.7	0.10	8.5	0.09
26-30	269	218	99.6	2.68	100.0	2.43	81.0	1.24	85.8	1.09	86.6	0.34	83.5	0.27	46.1	0.12	42.7	0.15	59.9	0.81	55.5	0.62	20.4	0.11	11.5	0.05	16.4	0.20	18.3	0.26
Married Males
Outlet	No. of cases		Total outlet																Marital intercourse				Extra-marital intercourse
Educational Level 0-8
16-20	75	83	100.0	3.75	100.0	5.50													100.0	3.07	100.0	4.35	32.0	0.37	55.4	0.69
21-25	204	120	100.0	3.08	100.0	5.61													99.5	2.70	99.2	4.28	27.9	0.19	45.0	1.04
26-30	227	65	100.0	3.02	96.9	5.22													100.0	2.65	96.9	4.21	32.2	0.16	44.6	0.61
Educational Level 9-12
21-25	71	93	100.0	3.89	100.0	4.35													100.0	3.24	100.0	3.43	36.6	0.37	46.2	0.50
26-30	83	52	100.0	3.43	100.0	3.76													100.0	2.76	100.0	3.07	38.6	0.32	53.8	0.32
Educational Level 13+
21-25	144	296	100.0	3.86	100.0	3.62													98.6	3.25	100.0	2.98	18.8	0.16	13.2	0.04
26-30	317	215	100.0	3.33	100.0	2.99													99.1	2.76	99.5	2.40	24.3	0.12	18.1	0.05
“Educ. level 0-8” are the males who never go beyond grade school. “Educ. level 9-12” are the males who enter high school but never go beyond. “Educ. level 13+” are the males who will ultimately go to college.
* Under Pre-marital Intercourse, mean frequencies are given for total pre-marital intercourse and incidences for intercourse with companioins.
Median difference of age between the two groups is 22 years.

Figures 122,123. Comparisons of active incidences data and frequencies of sexual activity
in older and younger generations

Active incidence data are given in lined borders.

Comparisons of active incidences data and mean frequencies for males 16-20 years of age, showing data
for masturbation, total pre-marital intercourse, and intercourse with prostitutes, for three educational levels.
Median age difference between the two generations is 22 years.

The frequencies of contacts with prostitutes have, however, been significantly reduced, undoubtedly as a result of the educational campaigns and the legal moves which have more recently been made against prostitution. The present-day male is making such contacts only two-thirds, or even half, as often as the older generation did (Table 104, Figure 122). In compensation, however, there has been a definite increase in the amount of intercourse with girls who are not prostitutes, and the totals for pre-marital intercourse have not been materially changed.

Moreover, prostitution does not now occupy the thinking of males as it did in past generations. Males of the older generation visited houses of prostitution, not only in search of intercourse, but on sightseeing trips and in social groups as well. They were more often involved in the non-sexual activities that occurred in the established houses, such as drinking, gambling, etc. Present day prostitution is more often a matter of dealing with an individual girl who operates on her own. In practically every large city in the United States, those who are acquainted with conditions can locate prostitutes easily enough; but since organized houses have been eliminated in most of these cities, the stranger in town may have considerable difficulty in making such contacts. It is our impression, which will need more statistical support before it is established, that the number of girls who are now involved in prostitution is not materially smaller than the number which was so engaged ten or twenty years ago. Their manner of operation, however, has been materially changed, and the number of contacts they make per week has been appreciably reduced.

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