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Intro -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Sexuality and Sexual Behavior -- Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation -- Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850 -- The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America -- What Ought to Be and What Was: Women's Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Private Lives and Public Order: A Critical View of the History of Intimate Relations in the U.S. -- Women's Life in Utopia: The Shaker Experiment in Sexual Equality Reappraised - 1810 to 1860 -- Sex and Self-Control: Middle-Class Courtship in America, 1770-1870 -- Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought -- "Living the Principle" of Plural Marriage: Mormon Women, Utopia, and Female Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century -- Fallen Women: The Inmates of the Magdalen Society Asylum of Philadelphia, 1836-1908 -- "Ruined" Girls: Changing Community Responses to Illegitimacy in Upstate New York, 1890-1920 -- The Awesome Power of Sex: The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy -- Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century America: Behavior, Ideology, and Politics -- Smashing: Women's Relationships before the Fall -- The Morbidification of Love between Women by 19th-century Sexologists -- From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: Medicine and the Changing Conceptualization of Female Deviance -- "Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Historical Perspective -- The American Woman's Pre-World War I Freedom in Manners and Morals -- Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Crime of Precocious Sexuality: Female Juvenile Delinquency in the Progressive Era -- Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the "Sexual Revolution" of the Progressive Era.

This study examined the relationships between childhood attachment and coercive sexual behavior. One hundred sixty-two male undergraduate students completed self-report measures of childhood maternal attachment, childhood paternal attachment, adult attachment, antisociality, aggression, and coercive sexual behavior. As predicted, insecure childhood attachment, especially insecure paternal attachment, was associated with antisociality, aggression, and coercive sexual behavior. Moreover, childhood attachment independently predicted coercive sexual behavior after antisociality and aggression were statistically controlled. The hypothesis that paternal avoidant attachment would predict coercive sexual behavior independently of its relationship with aggression and antisociality was also supported. Posthoc analysis indicated that maternal anxious attachment was associated with antisociality and that paternal avoidant attachment was associated with both antisociality and coercive sexual behavior. These results are consistent with criminological and psychological research linking adverse early family experiences with offending and lend support to an attachment-theoretical framework for understanding offending behavior in general and sexual offending behavior in particular.

This article compares responses of three groups of incarcerated adolescents who admitted to sexual offending in an anonymous survey project on measures of trauma, sexual offending, the relationship between trauma and perpetration, and adjudication status. The first group admitted to sexual offending before the age of 12 only (n = 48), the second after the age of 12 only (n = 130), and the third before and after the age of 12 (n = 65). More than 46% of the sexually aggressive adoles cents began their deviant behaviors before the age of 12. Level and complexity of perpetration acts were more severe for the continuous offenders than for the other groups. Victimization and perpetration were significantly correlated for all three groups. This study supports a social learning hypothesis for the development of sexual offending by adolescents. Implications for research and clinical practice are drawn.