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Heterosexual Aversion in Homosexual Males A Second Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kurt Freund ,
Ron Langevin  and
Yaroslaw Zajac
Kurt Freund
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, and Section of Social Pathology
Ron Langevin
Affiliation:
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, M5T 1R8, Canada
Yaroslaw Zajac
Affiliation:
Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto, M5T 1R8, Canada
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A substantial part of Freud's (1925, orig. 1905; 1926, orig. 1922) theorizing on the causes of male homosexuality was the assumption of a fear of the female genitals, and according to Radó (1969) “fear of the genitals of the opposite sex is the basic dynamic of the individual who wants a sexual relationship with a member of the same sex”. Radó's stress on the phobic component in the causation of male homosexuality is shared by many theorists and practising clinicians.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 585 , August 1974 , pp. 177 - 180
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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