Objective: To assess long term outcome of adolescents with a gender identity disorder (GID). Design: Longitudinal cohort study with two assessments: pre-treatment (PreT), shortly after their initial attendance at the gender identity clinic and post-treatment (PostT), at least one year after gender reassignment surgery (GRS). Setting: Gender identity clinic. Participants: Twenty-seven young adul...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of in-service and post-service sexual assault among combat and noncombat veterans seeking Veteran's Affairs disability benefits for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHODS Cross-sectional survey of 4,918 veterans. RESULTS Surveys were returned by 3,337 veterans (effective response rate, 68%). Among men, 6.5% of combat veterans and 16.5% of noncomba...

INTRODUCTION Our goal was to explore whether emergency department (ED) patients would disclose their sexual orientation in a research evaluation and to examine demographic and clinical characteristics of patients by self-identified sexual orientation. METHODS Participants (n=177) presented for psychiatric treatment at three urban EDs in New York City, Rochester, NY, and Philadelphia, PA. Part...

The roles of gender and the sexual motives of Love, Pleasure, Conformity, Recognition, Dominance, and Submission in numerous usual and unusual sexual behaviors were investigated. In a survey of 191 college undergraduates it was found that Love, Pleasure, Conformity, and Recognition motives, often in interaction with gender, were all important predictors of sexual behavior. Gender was the best p...

What Is HSDD? For both patients and health care providers, HSDD probably should mean “Having the Sexual Dysfunction Discussion” to diagnose and treat distressful conditions,1 but it really stands for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. The DSM-IV defines it as the persistent or recurring deficiency (or absence) of sexual fantasies or thoughts or desire for sexual activity associated with persona...

Background: Hypoactive sexual desire disorder is the most common sexual disorder among women, which interferes with their various functions. Activity of brain-behavioral and psychological distress systems are considered among factors affecting sexual function. Objectives: The present study aimed to compare women with hypoactive sexual desire and normal women in terms of brain-behavioral and ...

Psychological impotence or erectile dysfunction is nowadays a pretty common yet misunderstood disorder. People often cannot detect it properly and misunderstood it for physical impotence. Psychological impotence is basically caused by psychological problems. Most of the times, this kind of impotence are curable. Recent study has shown that most of the cases of impotence are basically of this na...

The following study tested the hypothesis that women with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to childhood sexual abuse would display elevated norepinephrine-to-cortisol ratios similar to that found in male combat veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Twenty-four-hour urine samples were collected from 28 women: 11 women with PTSD who experienced childhood sexual abuse (PTSD+), 8 women who exp...

While sexual attitudes have liberalized in the past half century, research is mixed as to whether attitudes have become less gendered over time. Recent studies on college students' sexual and romantic relationships suggest that a sexual double standard continues to organize sexuality on many campuses. Data from the Online College Social Life Survey shed light on students' evaluation of casual s...