[The young clientele of a sexual disorders clinic]

This study is based on the charts of all the adolescents (age 11-22 incl., total number 234) treated in a Danish sexological clinic 1986-1995. They account for rather a small part of the total sexological clientele. Among the youngest there was a majority of boys, some with congenital, genital deformities. From the age of 17 the number of patients increased abruptly, now with a majority of women. In the age group of 17-20 year-old there were many adolescents with sexual identity disorder, in the oldest age groups many women with sexual dysfunctions. For half of the adolescents the duration of therapy was 1-12 months. The study illustrates the distinctive features of the young group including the culmination of conflicts of sexual identity in mid-adolescence.