Table 3.
Sample characteristics and the overall indication of any sexual interest in children among female participants who provided information on the use of online abuse material as well as on their sexual fantasies (n = 871) 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 and chi-square test or Fisher's exact test for nominal and binary variables
| Variables | Total (n = 871, 100%) |
General website (n = 829, 95.2%) |
SIC website (n = 42, 4.8%) |
Sig. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | Range | M (SD) | Range | M (SD) | Range | ||
| Age (in years)∗ | 26.6 (7.6) | 18–67 | 26.6 (7.6) | 18–67 | 26.1 (7.0) | 18–45 | n.s.† |
| Relationship status | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| In a relationship | 539 (61.9) | 513 (61.9) | 26 (61.9) | n.s.‡ | |||
| Currently single | 332 (38.1) | 316 (38.1) | 16 (38.1) | ||||
| Sexual orientation | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| Heterosexual | 628 (72.1) | 603 (72.7) | 25 (59.5) | n.s.§ | |||
| Homosexual | 48 (5.5) | 43 (5.2) | 5 (11.9) | ||||
| Bisexual | 193 (22.2) | 181 (21.9) | 12 (28.6) | ||||
| Not specified¶ | 2 (0.2) | 2 (0.2) | - (-) | ||||
| Any sexual interest in children‖ | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | Sig. | |||
| No | 717 (82.3) | 684 (82.5) | 33 (87.6) | n.s.‡ | |||
| Yes | 154∗∗ (17.7) | 145∗∗ (17.5) | 9∗∗ (21.4) | ||||
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.
Age at data collection.
Result from t-test.
Results from chi-square test.
Result from Fischer's exact test.
Participants did not provide information on these questions.
Indicated by the self-reported use of online abuse material including children and/or adolescents and/or 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 reported both the use of online abuse material and sexual fantasies involving children were taken into account only once.