The purpose of this study was to test the relationship between the Draw-a-Person Test (DAP) and sexual pathology. Drawings by 53 sex offenders were compared with drawings by 63 nonsexual offenders randomly chosen from the clinic files. Drawings were compared for over-all quality on a special scale, and presence or absence of signs often considered indicative of sexual disturbance. There were no significant differences between the drawings of the random sample and the drawings of sex offenders. It was concluded that the measures used were poor indicators of sexual disturbance and were not sensitive to sexual pathology in this sample.
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