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Responses to Erotic Stimuli of Transsexual and Homosexual Males

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. F. Barr
R. F. Barr*
Affiliation:
New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, School of Psychiatry, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, New South Wales, 2036, Australia
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The aim of the study was to determine whether transsexual and homosexual males differ in their autonomic responses to erotic film sequences.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 576 , November 1973 , pp. 579 - 585
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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