Studies on the recent epidemiology of early syphilis in West London.
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In recent years there has been increasing awareness of the part played by homosexual behaviour in the spread of venereal diseases. No doubt some European countries, their laws being based on the Napoleonic Code of 1810, in which questions of fornication and homosexuality were left to the conscience of the individual (West, 1968), had early recognized the phenomenon of variations from heterosexual conduct. Indeed Hecht (1957) mentioned that he had been teaching on 'Normal and pathological sexual life' and 'Sexual pedagogics', at Prague as early as 1926. However, it was not until the second world war led to a disruption of regular patterns of life and morality, and the moving around of many young men, that Anglo-Saxon countries began to acknowledge the part played in the spread of venereal disease by homosexual intercourse. Hinrichsen (1944) wrote a comprehensive paper about the importance of knowledge of sexual habits in the diagnosis and control of venereal disease with special reference to homosexual behaviour. This covered most aspects of homosexually acquired venereal disease in the United States of America and Europe up to that date and included a bibliography. In Great Britain Harkness (1948) once more drew attention to the fact that gonorrhoea, syphilis, and lymphogranuloma inguinale frequently involved the rectum and anal canal. Macdonald (1949) pointed out that a certain amount of sympathy and understanding was needed for a patient to admit he had acquired an infection by homosexual intercourse. Macdonald also drew attention to the tendency of homosexuals to gravitate towards London. This observation was supported by Jefferiss (1956) who showed that in London a significant proportion of male venereal disease patients were homosexuals. Since then the Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution, 1957 (The Wolf-
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The British journal of venereal diseases
دوره 48 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1972