Personality characteristics of exhibitionists

Forty-one exhibitionists were examined clinically and thirty-four psychometrically. The data does not support any definitive character type or evidence of severe pathology. If specific reference to their symptom of exhibiting is omitted they do not appear to be strikingly abnormal. Exhibiting was viewed as a unique way of expressing unconscious aggressive strivings, without provoking the retaliatory response that more direct aggression might stimulate.