Social and psychological factors in the distribution of STD in male clinic attenders. II Personality disorders, psychiatric illness, and abnormal sexual attitudes.

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Abstract
Using standardized questionnaires, the possible contributions of psychiatric illness, delinquent and other abnormal personality traits and disturbed attitudes to sex to the risk of sexually transmitted disease (STD) infection in men attending an STD clinic were studied. Certain differences in personality and in attitudes were found between the clinic sample and controls. These differences were not comparable with those found in groups of clinically abnormal subjects, were confined to homosexual and bisexual men and, with the possible exception of gonorrhea, were not related to risk of STD infection.