The heterosexual aggressors vs. minors are adult males convicted of sexual contact, accompanied by force or threat, with females aged twelve to fifteen who were not their daughters. The majority of the females had reached puberty, and a substantial number of them had developed the physical attributes that are considered sexually attractive in our society. The aggressors vs. minors are like the offenders vs. minors except that they resorted to physical force or intimidation in order to achieve the sexual contact.

In some ways the twelve- to fifteen-year-old girl is peculiarly liable to force or threat. She is old enough to be physically attractive and yet not old enough to have learned to avoid or escape potentially dangerous situations. Whereas an older woman has learned to regard all men with some suspicion and to recognize quickly when a situation is developing sexual overtones, the twelve- to fifteen-year-old is usually naive. In her conscious or unconscious mimicry of the behaviorisms of adult females, the young girl often is more sexually provocative than she realizes. As we mentioned previously in the section on offenders vs. minors, the twelve- to fifteen-year-old girl frequently wishes to give the impression that she is older and more sophisticated than she actually is, and this can easily lead to a situation wherein the older male, in a mixture of erotic arousal and anger, does not permit the girl to “back out” at the eleventh hour. A part of masculine folklore is the concept that a female who promises but does not fulfill her promise deserves to be forced; a curiously righteous note prevails to the effect that a “teaser” should be “taught a lesson” as punishment.

On the other hand, the wholly ingenuous girl may cause herself difficulties by continuing childish behavior inappropriate to her physical development. The girl who at ten engaged in happy rough-and-tumble with the fifteen-year-old boy next door may be surprised when at thirteen she finds her eighteen-year-old neighbor is turning the wrestling match into a sexual struggle. Teasing the old trash collector in the alley into giving her a mock spanking at age ten may, if repeated in the early teens, elicit an unwanted and unexpected sexual response. Their naivete makes such artless girls all the more traumatized by any show of sexual force; they are the ones who rush home in hysterics when some male unexpectedly attempts to fondle their breasts or genitalia. An older female, generally anticipating sexual overtures from males, would be more insulted than frightened, and would extricate herself from the predicament with a slap and outraged remarks.

The male who realizes too late that what he interpreted as encouragement was nothing of the sort is in real danger if he attempts, by physical force, to detain a frightened girl in order to calm her and make his apologies. Assault with intent to rape is a charge that requires very little in the way of physical contact, and judges and juries are apt to be cynical toward the man who disclaims any intention of rape. Men, knowing themselves, are prone to assume the worst about another man charged with a sex offense.

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