Abstract |
After nearly 30 years of marriage, a 51-year-old man castrated himself in order to fulfill a long-standing fantasy of being a girl. There was a prior history of cross-dressing since childhood, and a reversed erotic role imagery during coitus. There was no history of schizophrenia or psychotic depression. Pair bonding with the wife was very strong. It led the patient to elect low-dose maintenance on androgen so as to permit some degree of continued marital sex. Otherwise the patient would have preferred estrogenization and, perhaps, eventual sex reassignment. The rehabilitative program as a transvestite man has continued for 3 years.
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Authors | D P van Kammen, J Money |
Journal | Journal of homosexuality
(J Homosex)
Vol. 2
Issue 4
Pg. 359-6
( 1977)
ISSN: 0091-8369 [Print] United States |
PMID | 915254
(Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
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Topics |
- Castration
- Erotica
- Female
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Self Mutilation
- Transsexualism
(complications)
- Transvestism
(complications)
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