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Published on: October 13, 2018
[Age-related dynamics and conditions for developing male homosexuality]
Abstract:
A comprehensive clinical and psychological investigation was performed in 240 homosexual men. Various factors were established as playing a role in the development of homosexual drive. Therapeutic and preventive methods were designed. Homosexual men were found to have increased sexuality at the age of 5 to 7. First signs of homosexual settings were evident since the age 14-16 and their final shape acquired by 18-20. Parts played by individual partners were largely determined by personality traits (extroversion prevailing in "active" group and introversion in "passive" one). Homosexual orientation was primarily due to psychopathological development of the personality, asociality and external cues providing first sexual impression. In the forced confinement homosexual settings could be easily suppressed with chlorpromazine and then with sulfadiazine treatment. The prevention of homosexuality should be arranged as a complex of means effected through a differentiated medicolegal approach.
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