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ALTHOUGH SEXUAL PROMISCUITY IN PUBESCENT GIRLS IS NOT RARE, it is a little understood form of delinquent behavior. Psychoanalytic case studies of this phenomenon are scarce in proportion to the frequency of its occurrence in our culture. The early analytic inquiries into delinquent behavior in promiscuous adolescent girls resulted in more questions than answers. August Aichhorn (1949) asked important questions about female juvenile delinquency: "What are the psychological determinants responsible for the tendency in young girls towards prostitution and for their actually becoming prostitutes? What measures are advisable in order to deal with this type of delinquent girls?" He further wondered whether the "infantile instinctual fixations" evident in juvenile prostitutes might also be present "in a certain type of neurotic women [and] under what conditions a certain infantile instinctual fixation will lead not to neurosis, but to prostitution or the danger of promiscuity" (p. 440f.). In other words, what is the difference between the girl who acts out her fantasies and the one who does not?
On one occasion Blos (1957) attempted to answer these questions by referring to Friedlander's (1947) statement that "the difference