RESUMO
In a study of 1,310 Finnish adult male twins we found that sexual interest in children aged 12 or younger was reported by 0.2% of the sample. Sexual interest in children aged 15 or younger was reported by 3.3%. Participants reporting sexual interest in children aged 15 or younger were younger, reported stronger sexual desire, and had experienced more childhood sexual and nonsexual abuse. The present study is the first to give a population-based estimate of the incidence of sexual interest in children among adult men. The 12-month incidence of sexual interest in children below the age of 16 years is roughly comparable to the one-year incidence of major depression or the lifetime prevalence of transvestitic fetishism.
Assuntos
Doenças em Gêmeos/epidemiologia , Pedofilia/epidemiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Sobreviventes Adultos de Maus-Tratos Infantis/psicologia , Sobreviventes Adultos de Maus-Tratos Infantis/estatística & dados numéricos , Fatores Etários , Criança , Comorbidade , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/epidemiologia , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/genética , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/psicologia , Doenças em Gêmeos/genética , Doenças em Gêmeos/psicologia , Feminino , Finlândia , Humanos , Incidência , Libido , Masculino , Pedofilia/genética , Pedofilia/psicologia , Vigilância da População , Estatística como Assunto , Travestilidade/epidemiologia , Travestilidade/genética , Travestilidade/psicologiaRESUMO
Ten (10) sets of siblings or parent-child pairs concordant for gender identity disorder (transsexualism) or gender identity disorder and transvestitism are reported. For concordant gender identity disorder, there is one set of male monozygotic twins; three sets of non-twin brothers; one brother-and-sister pair; one set of sisters; and one father and son. With gender identity disorder and transvestism, there is one transsexual father with a gender dysphoric; transvestic son; one transvestic father with a gender dysphoric, transvestic son; and one transvestic father with a transsexual daughter. The emerging technology of genetic markers makes collation of such families a potentially valuable resource for unraveling the origins of atypical gender identity.
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Transtornos do Humor/genética , Relações Pais-Filho , Relações entre Irmãos , Travestilidade/genética , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Transtornos do Humor/complicações , Transtornos do Humor/psicologia , Travestilidade/complicações , Travestilidade/psicologiaRESUMO
Studies of familial psychopathology, specifically of "imperative ideas and actions", indicate a frequent transgenerational occurrence. These affectively highly charged complexes (memories) are encoded, it is speculated, across generations by a genetic mechanism.
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Memória/fisiologia , Adulto , Idoso , Genética , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Disfunções Sexuais Fisiológicas/genética , Travestilidade/genéticaRESUMO
A revision of the typology of male cross-gender identity was carried out by means of formalized, easily replicable methods. The results suggest (1) that there are two discrete types of cross-gender identity, one heterosexual, the other homosexual; (2) that transvestism, and closely related conditions of cross-gender identity, occur exclusively or almost exclusively in heterosexuals; (3) that of the two types of transsexualism distinguished in this study, type A is, in heterosexuals, very rare or completely nonexistent; (4) that (in the course of time) transvestites or borderline transsexuals (defined below) may develop sustained cross-gender identity, as observed by Stoller (1971); (5) that although, according to Hoenig and Kenna (1974), transsexualism by itself is not an anomalous erotic preference, it is (virtually) always either preceded by transvestism or accompanied by homosexuality or cross-gender fetishism.
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Identidade de Gênero , Identificação Psicológica , Transexualidade/psicologia , Travestilidade/psicologia , Adulto , Fetichismo Psiquiátrico/psicologia , Homossexualidade , Humanos , Masculino , Masoquismo , Sadismo , Transexualidade/genética , Travestilidade/genéticaAssuntos
Transtornos Mentais/genética , Pais/psicologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Criança , Doenças em Gêmeos , Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal/genética , Feminino , Fetichismo Psiquiátrico/genética , Humanos , Masculino , Comportamento Obsessivo/genética , Transtornos Fóbicos/genética , Síndrome de Tourette/genética , Travestilidade/genéticaRESUMO
Twelve male children were diagnosed with psychological gender disturbances by 3 independent clinical psychologists using independent data sources focusing on behavioural deviance from normal comparison groups, on conventional psychological testing, and on parent report instruments which had been validated on normal comparison samples. These children received a paediatric evaluation consisting of a medical history, complete physical examination, chromosome analysis including 2 cells karyotyped and 15 counted, and sex chromatin studies. All gender disturbed boys were found to be normal genetically and physically with the exception of one subject with one undescended testicle.
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Homossexualidade , Transexualidade/genética , Travestilidade/genética , Adolescente , Criança , Pré-Escolar , Identidade de Gênero , Humanos , Cariotipagem , Masculino , Transexualidade/diagnóstico , Travestilidade/diagnósticoRESUMO
Three sons of a transvestite father engaged in cross-dressing beginning in early adolescence. The literature suggests that observation may play a role in determining the specificity of the symptoms of conflicted sexual identity. These cases of transvestism in offspring are unusual in that the father played an important role in symptom choice and modeling. It is hoped that in future studies of transvestism in the father will be examined in a more intensive way as a figure with whom an active identification process may evolve.
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Relações Pai-Filho , Comportamento Imitativo , Travestilidade/genética , Adolescente , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Literatura Erótica , Identidade de Gênero , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Relações Mãe-Filho , Desenvolvimento Psicossexual , Estresse PsicológicoRESUMO
A brief review of the literature concerning familial transvestism is given. The case history of father-son heterosexual transvestism is presented. The son appears to have been ignorant of his father's transvestism. Early childhood experiences as an aetiological factor seem inadequate to explain the similarities of the two subjects' transvestite behaviour. It is suggested that constitutional factors play a part in the aetiology of heterosexual transvestism.
