Table 2.
Sample characteristics and sexual fantasies involving prepubescent or pubescent children among female participants who provided information on their sexual fantasies (n = 1,411) including results of comparisons between participants recruited among general websites (general website) and those who were recruited on websites directed to individuals with sexual interest in children (SIC website) using t-test for interval scaled variables, U-test for ordinal scaled variables, and chi-square test or Fisher's exact test for nominal and binary variables
| Variables | Total (n = 1,411, 100%) |
General website (n = 1,357, 96.2%) |
SIC website (n = 54, 3.8%) |
Sig. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | Range | M (SD) | Range | M (SD) | Range | ||
| Age (in years)∗ | 27.5 (8.8) | 18–69 | 27.5 (8.8) | 18–69 | 28.2 (9.5) | 18–58 | n.s.† |
| Relationship status | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| In a relationship | 908 (64.4) | 874 (64.4) | 34 (63.0) | n.s.‡ | |||
| Currently single | 503 (35.6) | 483 (35.6) | 20 (37.0) | ||||
| Sexual orientation | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| Heterosexual | 1,096 (77.7) | 1,062 (78.3) | 34 (63.0) | ∗§ | |||
| Homosexual | 73 (5.2) | 68 (5.0) | 5 (9.2) | ||||
| Bisexual | 236 (16.7) | 221 (16.3) | 15 (27.8) | ||||
| Not specified¶ | 6 (0.4) | 6 (0.4) | - (-) | ||||
| Sexual fantasies involving‖…Prepubescent girls | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| Not at all | 1,320 (93.6) | 1,273 (93.8) | 47 (87.0) | ∗∗∗ | |||
| (2) | 59 (4.2) | 57 (4.2) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| (3) | 22 (1.6) | 20 (1.5) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| (4) | 7 (0.5) | 6 (0.4) | 1 (1.9) | ||||
| Absolutely | 3 (0.2) | 1 (0.1) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| Dichotomized†† | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 1,379 (97.7) | 1,330 (98.0) | 49 (90.7) | ∗∗‡ | |||
| Yes | 32 (2.3) | 27 (2.0) | 5 (9.3) | ||||
| Prepubescent boys | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| Not at all | 1,159 (82.1) | 1,113 (82.0) | 46 (85.2) | n.s.∗∗ | |||
| (2) | 175 (12.4) | 171 (12.6) | 4 (7.4) | ||||
| (3) | 61 (4.3) | 59 (4.3) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| (4) | 15 (1.1) | 13 (1.0) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| Absolutely | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | ||||
| Dichotomized†† | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 1,334 (94.5) | 1,284 (94.6) | 50 (92.6) | n.s.§ | |||
| Yes | 77¶ (5.5) | 73 (5.4) | 4 (7.7) | ||||
| Sexual fantasies involving‖…Prepubescent children | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 1,313 (93.1) | 1,265 (93.2) | 48 (88.9) | n.s.‡ | |||
| Yes | 98 (7.0) | 92 (6.8) | 6 (11.1) | ||||
| Sexual fantasies involving‡‡…Pubescent girls | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| Not at all | 1,208 (85.6) | 1,165 (85.9) | 43 (79.6) | n.s.∗∗ | |||
| (2) | 138 (9.8) | 134 (9.9) | 4 (7.4) | ||||
| (3) | 49 (3.5) | 46 (3.4) | 3 (5.6) | ||||
| (4) | 13 (0.9) | 11 (0.8) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| Absolutely | 3 (0.2) | 1 (0.1) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| Dichotomized†† | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 1,346 (95.4) | 1,299 (95.7) | 47 (87.0) | ∗‡ | |||
| Yes | 65 (4.6) | 58 (4.3) | 7 (13.0) | ||||
| Pubescent boys | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| Not at all | 1,121 (79.4) | 1,080 (79.6) | 41 (75.9) | n.s.∗∗ | |||
| (2) | 203 (14.4) | 196 (14.4) | 7 (13.0) | ||||
| (3) | 66 (4.7) | 63 (4.6) | 3 (5.6) | ||||
| (4) | 18 (1.3) | 16 (1.2) | 2 (3.7) | ||||
| Absolutely | 3 (0.2) | 2 (0.1) | 1 (1.9) | ||||
| Dichotomized†† | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 1,324 (93.8) | 1,276 (94.0) | 48 (88.9) | n.s.‡ | |||
| Yes | 87‖ (6.2) | 81 (6.0) | 6 (11.1) | ||||
| Sexual fantasies involving‡‡…Pubescent children | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 1,275 (90.4) | 1,228 (90.5) | 47 (87.0) | n.s.‡ | |||
| Yes | 136§§ (9.6) | 129¶¶ (9.5) | 7‖‖ (13.0) | ||||
| Sexual fantasies involving any children∗∗∗ | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 1,231 (87.2) | 1,184 (87.3) | 47 (87.0) | n.s.‡ | |||
| Yes | 180††† (12.7) | 173††† (12.7) | 7††† (13.0) | ||||
M = mean value; N (%) = absolute share (percentage share) in the sample; SD = standard deviation; SIC = sexual interest in children; Sig. = significance level of the group comparison analysis.
∗P < .05, ∗∗P < .01.
Age at data collection.
Result from t-Test.
Results from Chi-Square-Test.
Results from Fischer's Exact Test.
Participants did not provide information on these questions.
Indicated by the self-reported extent to which female and male children at Tanner stage 1 (prepubescent girls and boys) are involved in participants' sexual fantasies.
Results from U-Test.
Response categories were dichotomized by computing ‘not at all’ and ‘(2)’ into ‘no’ and ‘(3)’, ‘(4)’, and ‘absolutely’ into ‘yes’.
Indicated by the self-reported extent to which female and male children at Tanner stage 2 (pubescent girls and boys) are involved in participants' sexual fantasies.
Including 11 females who reported on having sexual fantasies involving prepubescent girls.
Including 16 females who reported on having sexual fantasies involving pubescent girls.
Including 54 females who reported on having sexual fantasies involving prepubescent children (Tanner stage 1).
Indicated by the self-reported sexual fantasies which at least partly involves female and/or male children at Tanner stage 1 and/or 2 (prepubescent and pubescent girls and boys).
Participants who responded positive to more than one of the 4 pictures were taken into account only once.