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Medroxyprogesterone acetate, nocturnal penile tumescence, laboratory arousal, and sexual acting out in a male with schizophrenia
This study reports the effects of the antilibidinal drug, medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) on nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) during sleep,...
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The Use of Psychiatric Expertise in Sex Offender Cases
The subject of psychiatric expertise in sex offender cases raises a multitude of questions which have profound ethical implications. Given the major... -
A Biosocial Overview of Adult Human Sexual Behavior with Children and Adolescents
The word “sex” usually captures people’s attention when it occurs in book titles, magazine articles, and newspaper headlines, especially when the... -
Hormones and Neuroendocrine Factors in Atypical Human Sexual Behavior
Exactly 100 years ago, Brown-Sequard reported apparent physiological and behavioral consequences of self-injection of animal testicular extracts... -
Adolescent child molesters: Clinical observations
Clinical assessments of 29 male adolescent child molesters referred to the Toronto Family Court Clinic showed that many were socially isolated, had...
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Interruption in the maintenance of compulsive sexual disorder: Two case studies
Sexual offenses and disorders are at times compulsive in nature. It is hypothesized that compulsive sexuality is a function of a history of...
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders
The exact incidence of sexual crimes committed by adolescents is not known. However available data (victim reports and arrest statistics) indicate... -
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Impotence or paraphilia: A catch-22
It is reported in the medical literature that 25 percent of American men are afflicted with some form of impotence. What do “normal” men do to avoid...
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Psychosexual Disorders
The third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) of the American Psychiatric Association (APA, 1980)... -
Sexual Dysfunctions and Deviations
Although interest in sexuality is as old as the human race, several significant changes have occurred during the last 35 years that have greatly... -
Brain damage and paraphilia: Treated with medroxyprogesterone acetate
Brain damage, due to cortical atrophy, brain tumor, epileptic foci, temporal lobectomy, or concussion, is most frequently associated with...
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Sexual Deviations
Our society has witnessed a host of changes of values, mores, and attitudes regarding sexual behavior in the last 50 years. Many forms of sexual... -
Is homosexuality familial? A review, some data, and a suggestion
This report summarizes evidence that sexual orientation is familial. Family studies report that homosexual subjects have more homosexual siblings...
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The border area between transvestism and gender dysphoria: Transvestitic applicants for sex reassignment
Clinical variants among the population of applicants for sex reassignment have been previously categorized. These coherent entities were introduced...