[Sex role identity in persons with paraphilias]

Specificity of sexual role identity was studied in individuals with disorders of sexual drive with focus on the study of individual expression of sexual role signs and correlation between value-regulatory and standard-role components of sex self-consciousness in paraphilias. By means of modified psychologic projective methods, two groups who had committed criminal sex delicts were examined: a group with different variations of paraphilias (69 examinees), a group without any anomalies of sexual drives (57 examinees), a control group (65 healthy men). The data obtained about a divergence of value-regulatory and standard-role components of sexual role self-consciousness indicated disorder of the stage of forming of stable role self-identity at juvenile age and reflected difficulties in interiorization of male sex-role standards in individuals with the disorders of sex drive.