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Psychosomatic Medicine 7:302-305 (1945)
© 1945 American Psychosomatic Society

A Study of Homosexual Adult Males

E. L. SEVRINGHAUS M.D.1 and JOHN CHORNYAK M.C.1

1 Medical Division, State of Wisconsin General Hospital and the A.A.F. Regional Hospital Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin

Studies on urine of 20 overt homosexual males, aged 19 to 31, showed variable levels of 17-ketosteroid (androgen?) and pituitary gonadotrophin. Half the men had no demonstrable gonadotrophic hormone in a 12-hour urine equivalent, less than any normals studied by the same technique. This was not correlated with any typical physical features or with the level of 17-ketosteroids. These findings suggest that there may be an endocrinological abnormality in some cases of homosexuality.






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