EROTIC IMAGERY AND SELF-CASTRATION IN TRANSVESTISM/TRANSSEXUALISM:
- 6 October 1977
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Homosexuality
- Vol. 2 (4) , 359-366
- https://doi.org/10.1300/j082v02n04_08
Abstract
After nearly 30 years of marriage, a 51-year-old man castrated himself in order to fulfill a long-standing fantasy of being a girl. There was a prior history of cross-dressing since childhood, and a reversed erotic role imagery during coitus. There was no history of schizophrenia or psychotic depression. Pair bonding with the wife was very strong. It led the patient to elect low-dose maintenance on androgen so as to permit some degree of continued marital sex. Otherwise the patient would have preferred estrogenization and, perhaps, eventual sex reassignment. The rehabilitative program as a transvestite man has continued for 3 years.Keywords
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